At crucial junctures, every individual makes decisions, and…every decision is individual...

I found this phrase in the Holocaust museum of Washington Dc during our weekend there with some of the interns that now are split in Baltimore or Philadelphia for three weeks.

This phrase in my opinion represents perfectly the situation that girls have to affront every time that they want to have an abortion.  Why? Because many of them don’t have “the four legs of the life”: faith, family support, resources and education.  

So when they get pregnant they start thinking about materials things: “I do not have enough money for feed my kid”, “I do not have a permanent job and they will not accept my pregnancy” etc. It is totally normal to have this thoughts but the problem is not the lack of resources because there are many organizations than can help this women to get what they need.

The second thought  is correlate to family support and the ideas that they make in their brains are: “My boyfriend broke up with me when I told him about my pregnancy”, “I live alone, I do not have any relatives who can help me with my kid” and many other things that we are founding out with this internship.  It is true that family is one of the precious things that we have in live, but if you are alone, there are places like ALPHA (organization prolife in Philadelphia) that can be like the family support that they never had.

In my opinion the main problem is the lack of education in the modern society that we live. The government and the public schools don’t provide any information about the consequences and risks of taking an abortion. They don’t teach stuff like abstinence or the importance of the waiting. They just offer pills or condoms to “prevent” the pregnancy. And this is not working and they don’t want to stop this, they just want to earn all the money that they can and be happy in their unreal world.

The last leg is faith. In my opinion, faith is the best “tool” for everything and it can help you with the others legs. For example, if in the school you didn’t receive good education, you can find all the information and more that you need in the catechism of the Catholic Church. Also if your family support is off, God is your father and He is always taking care of you, and we can´t forget our Mother Mary.