You touch upon so many spiritual concepts in this article in a fresh and vulnerable manner and I applaud you.
I'm pleased to see you discuss abortion so long after the Dobbs decision here in the USA with your authentic voice from your personal experience and see that your views coincide with mine yet I have never been faced with what you have.
Plus your ability to see past black and white concepts into the nuance of there is no right and wrong and how you artfully point out that neither one nor many exploitable examples/anecdotes should a policy make is extraordinary if for no other reason than it is not the norm.
I wrote a few essays on abortion when I saw the Dobbs decison coming down the road and I probably touched on it afterward too. For non-religious spiritual reasons and personal experiences I believe that human life begins at conception yet for the same reasons I am absolutely pro-choice. In my https://medium.com/illumination-curated/abortion-is-murder-4d234daa2e71, I wrote:
"Leave mothers alone to make this all so painful decision on their own and discuss the reasons therefor with the jury of their peers in heaven. The soul of the aborted child entered the fetus knowing it would not take a human breath. The decision to abort may actually be decided to have been in the long-term benefit of the mother and the children she may bear later. That judgment is not within the limits of humans to make and there is no benefit to society to create nor determine this conflict."
Your deeply personal essay also touches upon the wonderfuly imperfectly perfect nature of our experiences in the mortal coil as souls seeking human experience, good, bad, beautiful, ugly and so much inbetween. (See my https://medium.com/know-thyself-heal-thyself/the-human-spirit-duality-e456c0729e99 and https://medium.com/know-thyself-heal-thyself/lets-talk-about-villains-and-victims-c7795f2fa91e). Henya Drescher's essay today, https://medium.com/illumination/failures-teach-a-better-understanding-of-whats-necessary-to-succeed-a4a4848fe819, subtly tackled this concept among others.
Your essay also touches upon the so immensely important concept of acceptance (discussed at length by me here https://medium.com/p/86877724cd6b) which also requires much nuance. Life is neither fair nor unfair, it just is. Stop judging life and comparing our lives to someone else's — our lives are our lives— our lives just are— now live them https://medium.com/channspirations/who-decides-what-is-fair-c252486bcad8.
