This is the left leg of a child aborted at 16 weeks following their conception. Had this child not been dismembered alive while in the womb, he or she would have someday used this leg to gleefully wobble into the arms of their mother. They would have tippy-toed into a closet while playing hide-and-go-seek or used this leg to trip their brother or sister as they ran by. Maybe this person would have stood gracefully on these toes as they danced a beautiful ballet or maybe stumbled and fell as they struggled to be taller than their dad. Maybe this child’s life was meant to be more than just a bag of medical waste.

This is what abortion is. This is what abortion steals away from us all. You and I were very lucky not to have had our lives ended this way. Without dignity or love. Without ever knowing the warm embrace of another human being. Without acknowledgment that we ever existed.

Without hope for our future.