Courage

A good friend of mine recently became an aunt through adoption. It got me thinking about my own emotions after I gave birth and what it would be like to be dealing with all of that after having given my child to strangers to raise.

There has also been a lot of discussion recently about abortion and women's rights. Chatelaine did a feature this month on the new activists in this area and concluded that the issue is far from settled and that the discussion is becoming much more nuanced; there is no more black and white, that is, if there ever was.

What I realized was that no matter how hard the pro-choice movement champions people like Dr. Morgentaler, no one involved in assisting women to procure abortions has even half the courage of women like the one that made my friend an aunt.

Women who realize that their inability to raise a child has nothing to do with the child and everything to do with them. Women who put their bodies through nine months of tremendous change and discomfort to nurture a child she may never know, because they know that she, not her child, should bear the consequences of her actions. This, is true sacrifice. I wonder when they'll get their Order of Canada.