Just my opinion

So yesterday I was on a real political stint. I don't follow politics very often but I feel that our country is at a real cross roads right now. We are having to chose between not so good and very evil. I am very scared for our country and what is in store for our future. I decided early on that I would not give any of my support to Obama but I really did not like McCain either. I was at a real cross roads in my thought about all of this but in the end decided that if I had to chose I would go with the lesser of two evils. I have a friend that is leaning towards Obama right now and I told them this same thing that I am about to tell you.This is only one of my many concerns about what Obama wants to do for our country. To "change" for the better. Well after you hear my story, maybe you will think that his "change" isn't what we really want.

Obama believes in late term abortion. What that means is some people believe that a pregnancy is not viable until 27 weeks gestation and that if you wanted to get ride of the "fetus" then you still could up to that point. Well I have a daughter that, due to reasons out of my control, came along at 25 weeks gestation. Yes she had to spend time on a ventulator to help her breath and to allow her lungs to develope, but she was a perfect tiny person. She had every feature already all the way down to tiny little finger nails. She has a personality and a will to survive that I had never seen before. Doctors told me on several occasions that they didn't think that she would live through the night and then she would prove them wrong and make it. The doctors did everything that they could to try and create an environment for her that was similar to a mothers womb. It was always dark and quiet in the hospital and I was encouraged to talk and sing to her like any mom does to her baby that is growing inside of her. We were given a uniqe opportunity to watch as she developed and grew like a child does inside the womb. After just a few months in the hospital I was allowed to take my beautiful healthy daughter home just like any mother does. Of course she was still on oxygen to help her breath but she was coming home and I was never more proud of anyone as I was of my beautiful Ashlynn.

Now a lot of people belive that I just put her on life support and forced her to survive, but think of it this way. Say your 5 year old or a parent or sibling was in some sort of accident that caused them not to be able to breath on their own, but you were told that over time the lungs could heal and develop and that within a few months they would be good as new. There is nothing else wrong, everything else is fine and normal. Would you say, no just let them suffocate and die because you think that a ventulater is a life support thing and that you are forcing them to stay alive even though they are healthy in every other way? I know I would do everything in my power to save that person. In fact that is all that I did, we did not force any one to keep Ashlynn alive, she did that on her own. Thanks to my daughter I know volunteer my time in the NICU and have seen many babies up to 22 weeks gestation survive just as my daugher did. I have seen some of them come out with perfect working bodies and all they have to do is be taught to keep their own body temperature at a normal range and how to eat on their own. It is truly a miracle to see these tiny human beings work.

Now if Obama wins this election and is really able to do the things that he has promised, then it will be legal to murder these children. Do we really want that for our country, making it legal to murder children just because the parents dont want them? There are other options, adoption is one or teaching our children abstinence and keeping birth control around so that this doesn't have to happen.

Of course this is my own opinion and you can listen or not. I just felt like I needed to share.