A Reflection on Life

By Robin Blitchok, Grassroots Activist

In 1973, as a 16-year-old girl at a public high school and leader in my class, the future seemed blazingly bright. With little or no moral upbringing, coming from a typical American home of the 70's with a traveling father and alcoholic mother, I became vulnerable to unhealthy attention and gave in to the pressures that young girls face. Within a year of my first relationship, I became pregnant.

My parents were unable to cope with their own mounting problems and were more concerned about their status in the community than their daughter’s trauma. Since abortion was illegal in Michigan, their next course of action was to send me to another state to give birth for adoption. In a daze, rejected, unable to understand what was happening to me and without hope for the future, I left my home to secretly have this child, returning to finish high school as if nothing had happened. The next few months were filled with fear as if living a nightmare, no one offering any guidance or council.

But, one day driving home from the adoption agency, where the first person spoke candidly to me, I heard a still small voice say to me “this is My life”. I’d never known the voice of God, yet somehow my eyes were opened. Adoption is a wonderful solution for my situation but for me that day it was clear: I was to raise this child. The father flew to where I was, and at 8 months pregnant, we married at ages 16 and 18, living many miles from our birthplace, like abandoned runaway children.

After 35 years and 3 sons, our firstborn is happily married living in California with our 2 beautiful grandchildren. We give thanks daily for the protection the law provided prior to Roe vs. Wade, which was enacted only a few months after our son was born. Had abortion been legal, I would not have my wonderful family today. We lived many turbulent years and not without a great deal of struggle, but Christ found us, redeemed us and began to transform our lives, giving us a new beginning more than once. By the Grace of God we’re still married today.

Thank you for standing for the integrity of human life, from the unborn to the aged. We must keep up the fight of faith to overturn the deeply rooted business of abortion, protecting those who cannot protect themselves and provide the anchor of hope that only the Body of Christ can give with a solution-oriented approach.

Since 1973, abortion has become a readily available form of birth control, with Planned Parenthood centers in most every city. The number of girls living with the pain of abortion without Godly council is staggering. Our throwaway society not only discards the lives of the unborn but future parents and the elderly. Until the law is reversed, the Christ-centered community must provide more appealing solutions that bring hope, worth and value, a safety net of guidance in morality, counseling for optional services including adoption, work training, mentors teaching mothering skills and housing for those who are in crisis without family support and unable to make quality decisions. I believe this is the way to uproot the deceptively advertised abortion as an easy way out, and to begin to reverse a culture of death to life.

Our society has taken generations to get to the point of believing that quick fixes like abortion actually provide freedom when it is bondage and a curse. It will take a great deal of sacrifice, work and resources, through a body of believers not divided by details but united to do the work of the Kingdom of God. There are no quick fixes to the sins of mankind, nothing but the most costly Blood of Christ to lead us. This is not only possible; it is our Biblical mandate, hope for the unborn and the future of America.