A Child, Not A Choice Sherry is a pregnant woman who is deeply depressed, so she tries to commit suicide by ingesting poison. Sherry is unsuccessful and lives; however, the baby is not so lucky, and Sherry is charged with murder. Samantha is pregnant and decides she cannot handle a baby, so she goes to a clinic and gets an abortion; nobody turns his or her head. John Elefante tells the story of his daughters’ adoption and explores the subject of abortion in his emotional song “This Time.” In an interview, Elefante shares that he “can’t imagine life without [his] daughter, Sami, and it just breaks [his] heart that pregnant young women much like her birth mother, instead of choosing life for their babies, are denying them the chance to be born” (Elefante 1). “This Time,” by John Elefante,
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God speaks and the listener is exposed to a unique perspective on the topic: “Right then the Lord began to speak:/ ‘You 're not taking this one! She 's Mine!/ She 'll grow up to seek My name./ [...] I decided before time began./ Her name is written in the Book’” (l.l. 39-48). It is expressed that the unborn child will be a follower of God. The Lord conveys that he has a plan for the fetus; he decided in the beginning that it would grow and prosper in his name. As the Catholic church teaches that “life begins at fertilization and any attempt to destroy that life [...] is a sin [...and] a villainous crime that kills an innocent human being,” abortion is further proved to be a lethal transgression (Preface to ‘Is Abortion Immoral?’” 1). In fact, Pope John Paul II formally censures abortion in his 1995 “Evangelium Vitae” (1). The Catholic church has the correct position of pro-life, as abortion is not the God’s will. Therefore, abortion should be eliminated, because it is offensive to
God speaks and the listener is exposed to a unique perspective on the topic: “Right then the Lord began to speak:/ ‘You 're not taking this one! She 's Mine!/ She 'll grow up to seek My name./ [...] I decided before time began./ Her name is written in the Book’” (l.l. 39-48). It is expressed that the unborn child will be a follower of God. The Lord conveys that he has a plan for the fetus; he decided in the beginning that it would grow and prosper in his name. As the Catholic church teaches that “life begins at fertilization and any attempt to destroy that life [...] is a sin [...and] a villainous crime that kills an innocent human being,” abortion is further proved to be a lethal transgression (Preface to ‘Is Abortion Immoral?’” 1). In fact, Pope John Paul II formally censures abortion in his 1995 “Evangelium Vitae” (1). The Catholic church has the correct position of pro-life, as abortion is not the God’s will. Therefore, abortion should be eliminated, because it is offensive to