In today's day and age, being pro-life is equated to taking away the "rights" of a woman. Pro-life activists are shredded and ridiculed on social media and by many other liberal media outlets. Pro-lifers are often made to be villains advocating for the oppression of women and the suffocation of feminist movements.

But to be pro-life is none of these things. It is embrace each life with equality. This means we embrace the life in the womb, and the life that carries it. Pro-lifers stand to give unborn children a voice, to give women caught in an unwanted pregnancy the love and support they need. To be pro-life is to love and stand for women and children across the world.

Adoption IS an option.

The most common justification I hear for abortion is that nobody wants to adopt. Many Pro-choice advocates point to the foster care system as an example. This mentality is wrong. I am the first to admit that our foster care system is broken and bogged down with red tape. However, children are NOT born into foster care, except under very specific circumstances, such as the birth mother being a foster child herself. In situations like this the babies will be adopted within weeks. As of 2012, for every infant given up for adoption in the United States, there were thirty-six couples waiting to adopt a baby. That's SEVENTY- TWO people who want to love that baby, to raise that child. Foster kids are placed in the system because, believe it or not, it's a better place for them. Our system is far from perfect, but it's far better than any situation any foster child was experiencing before. The foster care system puts children in safer, healthier, homes than they would otherwise be in.

I DO believe in bodily autonomy.

"My body, my choice." We hear it everywhere. And I completely agree. Women should get to make all the choices for their bodies, but this does not extend to the right to kill a child. That child's life that you chose to conceive, is your responsibility. It is fairly common knowledge that no birth control method is 100% effective and that anytime you engage in sex, there is a chance of conception. I believe that a woman has every right to make that choice, but she must accept that any life that comes from this is not a life she can claim as a part of her body.

95% of abortions performed are considered "birth control abortions." To clarify, this means that the child was not a result of rape or incest, the child was healthy, and the mother's health was not at risk. I understand that many who are pro-life believe exceptions should be made for pregnancies that are the result of incest or rape. These are not the abortions I am talking about here today. Today, I am defending the 95%. The 1,149,500 babies that are wanted by couples across the country. The 1,149,500 babies who were not granted bodily autonomy. The 1,149,500 children that cannot speak for themselves.