A Letter to Pro-Choicers

Dear Pro-choicer,

You are fearfully and wonderfully made. You are a picture of beauty and strength. You are a masterpiece of amazing design and perfection. Look at your hands; the joints, the individual fingerprints, the strength and abilities your hands can achieve. Your eyes have an amazing ability to see color, depth and detail. Your ears can detect even the slightest whisper and determine the direction it has come from and help you maintain your physical balance. Your throat contains two openings, one to your lungs and one to your digestive system with an organ called an epiglottis that prevents food and drink from going into your lungs and a larynx giving you your voice. Your tongue contains thousands of taste buds giving you the ability to taste and enjoy the food you eat. Your heart pumps several times each minute showing the signs of life, pushing life-giving oxygenated blood through your body, nourishing your organs, muscles, tendons and ligaments. Those parts keep you in motion, aiding in every move you make. Your bones give you structure and form and house the building blocks for the blood. Your lungs function perfectly taking in oxygen to oxygenate your blood and filtering out the by-product carbon dioxide. Your internal organs perform functions ranging from toxin filtration, to digestion, to waste elimination. Your reproductive organs are a wonder in and of themselves with the ability to bring pleasure and the continuation of human life. Your skin, the largest organ, protects your body from outside influences, yet also functions to remove toxins and regulate your body temperature. Your brain is a marvel all its own. Directing every function within your body, voluntary and involuntary. Directing emotions, abilities, talents, personality. Connecting to your spinal cord, that not only gives your body more form and structure, but contains amazing highways of nerves connecting your brain to every part of your body. Brain activity is almost constant, the termination of which shows the last vestiges of life. You are a wonder. A work of art. An amazing conglomeration of form and function. Not a product of random mutations, but a product of detailed plans for human kind by a perfect God.

Your body was formed in your mother’s womb. Your hands and feet formed by 8 weeks. Legs and arms by 10 weeks, with the ability to kick and move. Fingerprints formed between 12 and 16 weeks. Your eyes began forming at 10 weeks and finished at 22 weeks. Your inner ear began forming at 6 weeks and finished at 24 weeks so you could tell if you were right side up or upside down and the outer part of your ear began developing at 8 weeks. By 9 weeks all five of your senses were developed and you were able to react to outside stimuli like someone pressing on your mother’s belly. By 18 weeks, your ears had the ability to hear sounds from outside your mother’s womb. Your larynx formed at 6 weeks even though you would not be able to make a sound until air passed through them at birth. Your upper lip, joints and teeth began forming at 6 weeks as well. You were swallowing by 18 weeks. Your heart began pumping blood at 5 weeks, just a week past your mother’s missed period and developed into a the 4-chamber heart by 9 weeks.. By 8 weeks, blood was flowing through your plum-sized body . Your muscles were forming and by 10 weeks, all of your internal organs were formed and functioning. Your body began waste elimination at 12 weeks. Your reproductive organs formed at 10 weeks and over the next few weeks began differentiating based on your DNA and moving into place. Your skin began forming at 8 weeks and was capable of sensing touch by 18 weeks. Your brain went through amazing growth and development between 5 and 10 weeks and was completed by 12 weeks and the spinal cord began its development at 5 weeks. By 26 weeks, your brain developed its characteristic folds and grooves.

You are a marvel. A wonderful creation. A miracle. Your body began as a joining of two cells, that by themselves have no other function than to create a brand new human. Your DNA is unique, you are a one-of-a-kind creation, never to be duplicated. Your personality is your own, your talents unique to you.

In a world where everything breaks down and falls apart, your body went from nothingness to form and function in a very short period of time, programmed from the moment a cell from your mother and a cell from your father joined by an amazing chain of proteins called DNA. You are just like every other human being in human history, yet utterly unique. Without you, the world would never experience the talents, giftings and personality you bring to it.

Every human being that is created is equally as important as you are. Every talent, gift, personality programmed on the DNA of a fertilized egg is valuable and important and vital to the fabric of our society. If you are that important and your voice is that necessary, why do you feel that someone else’s is not? If every human being develops in the same way as you, what made it possible that you are standing alive on this earth today and some others are not? It is not that you were wanted, planned or chosen by human beings. It is that you are human. You have value. You are loved. You were created for a purpose. There is a plan for your life. You have something to offer. You were wanted, planned and chosen by the God who took the time to knit you together with His own touch. So was every one of the 52 million children who have died in abortion over the past 40 years.  .  What makes you so special? It is only that you are passionately loved by the Master and Author of the universe.  Notihing more, nothing less. 


Oh yes, you shaped me first inside, then out;
you formed me in my mother’s womb.
I thank you, High God—you’re breathtaking!
Body and soul, I am marvelously made!
I worship in adoration—what a creation!
You know me inside and out,
you know every bone in my body;
You know exactly how I was made, bit by bit,
how I was sculpted from nothing into something.
Like an open book, you watched me grow from conception to birth;
all the stages of my life were spread out before you,
The days of my life all prepared
before I’d even lived one day.

Psalm 139:13-16 MSG

Don’t overlook the obvious here, friends. With God, one day is as good as a thousand years, a thousand years as a day. God isn’t late with his promise as some measure lateness. He is restraining himself on account of you, holding back the End because he doesn’t want anyone lost. He’s giving everyone space and time to change.

2 Peter 3:9

See, I set before you today life and prosperity, death and destruction. ¹⁶ For I command you today to love the Lord your God, to walk in obedience to him, and to keep his commands, decrees and laws; then you will live and increase, and the Lord your God will bless you in the land you are entering to possess.
Deut 30:15-16

What is your choice?