Today when I came to school I found my friends huddled around a table with white duct tape on their mouths reading life in bold capital letters and signs hanging from around their necks. Instantly I knew what this was because it had been done once before last year, only it was for a different cause than this year. The signs say:
"We are standing up for all of the aborted babies and that may be aborted. Everyone has a voice! 'A person is a person no matter how small'"
I jumped in and happily placed the tape across my mouth and am wearing the sign with pride. Last years was for gay marriage. We had a day of silence, wearing a sign around our necks informing the people around us that we were refusing to speak for the entire day because of the rights that gays were being denied. We didn't have tape, but we were vigorous in our cause.
People were extremely disrespectful to us though. They would try their hardest to make us talk and break our vow of silence for the day. They yelled at us calling us idiots and morons for trying to stand up for a cause that we thought was important but to them was completely ridiculous. Even today people have been trying to rip the tape off of my mouth, argued with us, harassed, and antagonizong us because we are trying to make something like abortion be known.
Yes, I am against abortion. Yes, I DO think it's wrong. And yes, I am protesting against it at my school. If I could I would do it for the rest of the day if not for work. I don't want to be fired after all. But the next time another protest comes up and I think the cause it just, You can be damn sure that I'll be there right along side my friends and the other kids of my school that I don't even know fighting for a cause that I think should be known and supported.
Who cares if we weren't meant to be in the first place? That is no reason to destroy us before we even get a chance at life. I am actually the product of a refused abortion. My father found out that my mother was a few months pregnant with me, and he bluntly said either that thing goes or I do. Can you guess which of us she chose? Thanks to my mother's choice I am here today, and I am experiencing life to it's fullest. I say give this same chance to all of the others, and don't destroy a life that has potential to be greater than anything anyone has ever seen before!
