Say no to abortion! This is something I cannot agree with. How can we play God and take lives? It's easy to talk about life when we already have it in our hands, but what about a spark of life, beginning in the mother's womb? How can it fight or defend itself? How can it protect its own life? It's impossible. It's like a slaughter, like gathering several people to do evil to one, a blow to the back, without a chance to defend oneself. That's what I think about abortion.

Even in complex situations like rape or when the mother's life is at stake, I think we should always prioritize preserving life. If you don't want the child, you can give it up for adoption, place it in an orphanage, but don't take that life. I don't think we have the right to decide who lives and who perishes, especially in the case of a fetus, a beginning that cannot defend itself against any atrocity. Therefore, I don't think we should have the power to decide whether the child will be born or not; we shouldn't try to interfere when alternatives exist.

I believe that this topic, however controversial, is now more relevant in terms of alternatives. I imagine we have orphanages, social projects, NGOs, things of that nature. After all, life is too precious to decide to end it. From this perspective, I think there's always a way to solve this "problem", as many see it. Even awareness campaigns are being carried out with more effort; I see a lot of this in church campaigns, themes addressed in soap operas, series, and films. We are increasingly spreading the message that rejecting a child doesn't have to condemn them to death.

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Now, a truly tense moment is when there's a chance the child's mother could die during childbirth. It's always a difficult decision, a choice that puts us under a surreal level of stress, and no matter how much we try to predict and imagine it, it's agonizing to even think about making that decision. So imagine making the decision in the real world, right there in front of you! Choosing for the child to perish so that its mother may live, or vice versa—how do you decide that? I think I would only do what my wife wants; she would decide when she wants, what to do, and how to do it. It's something too complex.

I think I would consider what she said. Perhaps the instinct to protect children is stronger than anything else in mothers, so for that reason she would choose to save her child who is about to be born. For me, of course, the desire would be to save both, but in such a choice, is abortion valid? One life for another? I really don't know how to answer that; it's beyond my capacity to think and understand what becomes right or wrong in a situation like this. Perhaps the help of a psychology professional would be helpful in a moment like this, to have clarity in the decisions.

In any case, I believe we should always preserve life as much as possible, and that everything has a possible solution if we look for it. Abortion is only the quickest and most horrible solution we have, but I think that with calm and lots of conversation, support from family and friends, and professional help, we can arrive at a better solution.