Pro-Life Cupcakes???

In my hometown, a group of kids baked cupcakes and handed them out at the high school today.  The cupcakes are to "celebrate" the birthday of all the babies who were aborted and thus, never got a birthday...Yep.  A little tenuous.  Especially if you are trying to convince high school students to be pro-life.

But here's the thing.  Is this even legal?  Can a school allow this?  I don't know.  I know they do things like see you at the pole, where they pray outside the school and that that is fine as long as it not run by any adults who are affiliated with the school, but what about this?  It might depend on the location of the people who gave out cupcakes, but I just don't know.

Here's the biggest problem with it.  It shames people.  It shames women, in particular.  It says, 'you know that really hard choice you had to make about whether or not you could have a child at this point in your life, well, it was a bad choice.'  No cupcakes for you!  It says to young girls, it is better to go through with a pregnancy, even if that pregnancy means that all of your dreams and your happiness and your success(most importantly) are put on hold.  Or never realized.  It says that children are more important than women.  It says that we, women, have no rights in regards to life. 

And perhaps more importantly, pro-life people don't talk about adoption.  They talk about abortion or having a baby.  As if, there are only two choices.

But the biggest problem with pro-life people is their ignorance and their egotistical behavior.  it is ignorant to believe that every woman who becomes pregnant will be a good mother.  It is ignorant to believe that every woman can support an infant, a toddler, a child, a teenager.  It is ignorant to believe that these women have no rights to life and to success.  It is egotistical to believe that all women across the nation have the exact same circumstances as you.  They do not.  Not all women can support a child.  Not all women can endure pregnancy.  Not all women can be pregnant and still have a job.  Stop looking at these women through your lens of life and starting looking through their eyes.  As Atticus Finch says, "Walk a mile in their shoes.[sic]"  Imagine, for one moment, that these women have a leg to stand on in the abortion debate and then, then tell me that you still believe that the only option is to go through with the pregnancy.