Hip Hop singer regrets abortion – must see music video

From Lifesite News (read the whole article for more information): 

A hip hop group entitled Flipsyde, led by the singer known as Piper, released a song in Dec. 2005 entitled “Happy Birthday…so make a wish” which voices the remorse and love that a father feels towards his unborn child who was killed by abortion.  It is an undeniable testament to the guilt and sadness that many fathers experience after losing their child to an abortion.

I really admire the raw honesty.  I’ve never heard a song this candid about anything.  Watch and listen (the video has the words on the screen).  Be patient; it takes about 10 seconds to start.

Consider how bluntly he acknowledges that:

• A real person would have been here today
• It was murder / homicide
• He was responsible
• He was young, but old enough to be a dad
• It was a mistake
• He is sorry
• There is a hint of hope and healing

Wow.  Not a bit of tortured reasoning about whether his child had achieved “personhood,” or whether she was really human or really alive. 

I teach classes in pro-life reasoning, but if I had a choice between sharing an hour of PowerPoint slides or this 3.5 minute video with a young person contemplating abortion, I’d go with the video. 

Please join me in praying that people who are considering abortion will hear this and change their minds.  There is a better way.

Please join me in praying that people who were involved in abortions will hear this, acknowledge their mistakes and get the help they need.   Good news: There is forgiveness and healing available in Christ Jesus. 

Also see Nick Cannon’s Can I Live video, a passionate tribute to mothers who chose life.

Keep reading for the lyrics to Happy Birthday . . .

Happy Birthday. So make a wish.

Please accept my apologies, I wonder what would have been.
Would you have been a little angel or an angel of sin?
Tom-boy running around, hanging with all the guys.
Or a little tough boy with beautiful brown eyes.

I paid for the murder before they determined the sex,
choosing our life over your life meant your death.
And you never got a chance to even open your eyes,
sometimes I wonder as a fetus if you fought for your life.

Would you have been a little genius? In love with math?
Would you have played in your school clothes and made me mad?
Would you have been a little rapper like your poppa The Piper?
Would you have made me quit smoking by finding one of my lighters?

I wonder about your skin tone and shape of your nose,
and the way you would’ve laughed and talked fast or slow.
I think about it every year, so I picked up a pen.
Happy birthday, I love you whoever you would’ve been.

Happy Birthday
What I thought was a dream
Make a wish
Was as real as it seemed

I made a mistake

I got a million excuses, as to why you died.
And other people got their own reasons for homicide.
Who’s to say it would’ve worked and who’s to say it wouldn’t have
I was young and struggling, but old enough to be a dad.

The fear of being my father has never disappeared,
I ponder it frequently while I’m sippin’ on my beer.
My vision of a family was artificial and fake
so when it came time to create, I made a mistake.
But now you got a little brother, maybe it’s really you.

Maybe you really forgave us knowing we were confused.
Maybe, every time that he smiles it’s you proudly knowing
that your father’s doing the right thing now.
I’ll never tell a woman what to do with her body,
but if she don’t love children, then we can’t party.

I think about it every year, so I picked up a pen.
Happy birthday, I love you whoever you would’ve been.

Happy Birthday
What I thought was a dream
Make a wish
Was as real as it seemed

I made a mistake

And from the Heavens to the womb to the Heavens again.
From the ending to the ending, never got to begin.
Maybe one day we can meet face to face,
in a place without time and space. Happy birthday.

What I thought was a dream
Make a wish
Was as real as it seemed

I made a mistake