Trump said he evolved to be Pro-Life: Me Too

While watching the presidential debate last night, Trump made an interesting and, I believe, genuine statement about having evolved into being Pro-Life.  He used the example of people in his life that chose not to abort their child and that child turning out to be such a wonderful person.  This struck a chord with me.  I must admit, I was pro-choice for a long time in my life.  For literally years.  Then, I had my twin boys in 2007 through the marvel of science.  I have pictures of them when they were just embryos.  How amazing.  I then, delivered my boys and saw the miracle of birth.  I knew that they were only 2 of 4 that had survived.  All the other embryos that science had sought to make had died.  They defied the odds.  After giving birth, I could not imagine aborting any child, even at conception.  I felt guilty for having believed society's idea of when life began.  I think it was because I had grown up and become a mother.  Still, my belief was private.  I did not feel the need to go out and try to convince everyone not to destroy life.  In my mind, that was their business.

In 2012, I became pregnant unexpectedly by my boyfriend at the time.  I, obviously, was keeping the child, even though my boyfriend was not happy.  Nothing, however, could prepare me for what was going to happen next.  At 16 weeks, my stomach felt strange.  It felt drawn in, like the water had seeped out of my stomach.  I wasn't sure what was going on.  A week later, I started bleeding.  I was worried and went to the doctor only to find out that my baby was dead.  She had died inside of me a week earlier and had to come out.  They said she was too big and therefore, I had two options.  1) To induce labor and deliver her or 2) Cut her up and take her out (called a D&C, which is Dilation and Curettage, and what Planned Parenthood and other abortion clinics do to the unborn).  I chose to be induced.  I held off on pain medication and it was incredibly painful.  It wasn't a natural pain because the doctor had given me the strongest medication to induce.  After about 10 hours, they gave me some pain medication to ease the pain and I delivered her 15 minutes later.

She fit in the palm of my hand, but everything was clear to me - she was a little human being!  From her fingernails to her little tongue and her tightly shut eyes, she was a person.  It was a tragic event, but one I will never forget.  Abortions are performed at 20 weeks and earlier, but my 16 week old was a little dead person.  My mind raced.  Everything I thought I knew about pregnancy and babies had been wrong.  I felt like I had been mislead.  How can we not try and protect this tiny human who cannot speak for herself?  How did we develop into a society that is so callous towards life that we discard it without a thought? How could I have ever believed in abortion after holding my little baby in my hand?  How many other women have been mislead?

That's when I really turned the corner.  I am a realist and know we cannot put the genie back in the bottle with abortion, but we should really not mislead people.  Abortion is a horrible, tragic and violent, not something to be celebrated.  It is a somber ordeal that women need to consider very carefully before they do it. She/he truly is a baby, no matter what people say.  And if you choose to abort, you are killing another human being (the worst kind of killing because it is an innocent life).  And even from the moment of conception, you can see the little life moving and striving to continue his/her development.  It's not someone's imagination.  From embryo until a child reaches adult age, you see them develop.  It's an amazing gift and the wonder of life is evident through every step.  I wish our society could see what I see.


Jalesia “Jasha” McQueen is a Mother of 3 boys (one who has Down Syndrome), Veteran, Attorney, Entrepreneur and is currently in the Missouri Appellate Court seeking custody of her embryos, Noah and Genesis. “My dear Noah and Genesis, may you survive and be born.”  Jasha is co-founder and Director of Embryo Defense, a Missouri nonprofit organization dedicated to educating and providing resources for anyone who believes in saving human embryos. www.embryodefense.org