A Few Mothers Share Their Feelings About Creating Life

From a 29 year old mother, 18 weeks pregnant with her first child

"There is a heart beat, a brain, it's moving and stretching its legs, arms, fingers, toes. It's growing, like a plant or tree and people are more concerned about saving trees. It's amazing to watch it grow and me. I haven't felt it move yet, just seen it move in the sonogram. I think it is amazing what is happening inside me right now, when you stop to think about it. Life starts when the egg and sperm connect, it's growing from that point on. Creating a life is the most important amazing thing a woman can do. The ultimate sacrifice. You are creating another life!! How is that not God like? It's the closest to being a God/Goddess in this life. He created us, we create our children."

From a 24 year old mother with two young children, a 2 year old boy and a 2 month old girl

"I think that when conception happens a soul is assigned to us, but I guess in a more worldly view I would say that is when a heart starts beating. Babies move when they hear their mom's voice, music soothes them, I have no idea why people wouldn't consider them to be people. I've heard women say that they have the right to end it whenever because they are 'the host' of this baby. How about ' the mother'? Babies are being treated like parasites just so their mothers can't say that they murdered their own flesh and blood... You should Google this news article about this catholic hospital. The woman died giving birth to twins and the husband sued. The hospital lawyers said that they would only count the mom because the babies had not been born therefore they were not people..."

From a 25 year old mother with two little girls, ages 6 and 2 1/2 (Was 18 when she was pregnant with her first)

"For starters, the second I see two lines on a pee stick, my thoughts say, 'I'm pregnant.' So what does pregnant mean? You have created life. A life of another being. That being is not your body. That being has its own body, and whether you see it as a tiny spec or a full grown human, it is real and you created it. I do not feel that it is 'mine' so much as 'I am now responsible for this life.' Why do you think you yourself have rights of your own body? Because you are a life and you were created. You are not your mothers body. And your child is not your body. It's time to grow up and be responsible for that child the second you see those two positive lines, whether that be by changing your life to make room for a healthy environment for the baby, or finding a family that will (because there are plenty willing). Looking at my kids now with their personalities and their sweet little faces, it boggles my mind that they were both once 'just tissue worth nothing.' If 'just tissue' can become what I have created, every life deserves to be saved."

From a 54 year old mother with 4 children and 4 grandchildren

"I can't remember at what point it happens, but when I first felt that little flutter I knew there was a person there. As things progress, especially the latter part, when there is a lot of movement, it is obviously a live being. And towards the end, each one showed some symptoms of individuality & personality: responding differently to outside influences, being still and moving at different times of the day, for example. One of my sons would take his little foot and would push out near my ribcage, and when I would push it back, he would push more. It was like we were playing together & he was actively participating. Definitely a person."

From a 26 year old mother with a 9 month old son

"I was 16 weeks along when I saw my son for the first time in my ultrasound and that day I quit running because I was worried of shaking him up too much! I realized that there was an actual person I was responsible for in there. Around 24 weeks I felt real movements that were very much not my own, but a different, unique organism that acted on his own. And I can't tell you how many times I felt his hiccups rumbling my womb from his own separate body. Though we were conjoined by the umbilical cord, and he was relying on me for life, I felt throughout my pregnancy the unique life that was inside of me. I have never thought abortion to be particularly moral, but, after carrying and birthing a child, I find it very immoral."

From a 25 year old mother with a 2 1/2 year old girl and a 6 month old boy, she has also suffered a miscarriage

"I truly believe that life begins at conception. With my daughter, I saw and heard her heart beat at 8 weeks pregnant. With my son, I heard and saw his heart beat at 5 1/2 weeks. How people can think something is not living when it has a beating heart is beyond me! Not only do they have beating hearts but you can watch them squirm and move around on a sonogram long before you can feel them! My daughter used to play a game with me starting right from the time I first felt her, she'd stick her foot way out (to to point it was painful for me) until I would rub her foot, then she'd retract it back in really fast. She would do it for hours on end. Not only are they alive but they FEEL. Babies develop personalities when you're pregnant with them as well. When I was pregnant with my son I would rub my belly when he would get restless, to this day he still likes me to rub his belly to help him fall asleep. Anytime I was in a loud setting or music would play when I was pregnant with my daughter, she would get REALLY active. She loved it and still does. She was and is feisty.The argument that 'a fetus cannot survive outside of the mother' makes me SO angry! A full term baby can't survive without the care of an adult either, and let me tell you, it is a whole lot easy to care for the child when it's still inside you. For that matter, children in general cannot survive without the care of an adult for several years! There are THOUSANDS of amazing couples that would be AMAZING parents that cannot have children of their own. To say the baby isn't wanted is asinine, the baby IS wanted, maybe not by the birth parents but there are people who WANT the baby. Adoption is just so much the better answer. I know what it's like to feel a baby move, I've seen the heart beat very early on. I also know the heart wrenching anguish of staring at that sonogram screen praying for a miracle and the doctor confirming your greatest fear and telling you there is no heart beat, that you've miscarried. How anyone can knowingly kill a living baby, just kills me. Because they are living."