She couldn’t stand the anguish of losing another baby? What does she think abortion is????? I’m so glad the baby survived, but I hope he doesn’t end up wondering why momma tried to kill him….everyone deserves to live. And kidney transplants are not uncommon these days…

God has something in store for this child.

I am totally against abortions, except in about 1% of cases. Killing a baby thru abortion seems to be Less stressful than the baby dying after birth? Not sure I can believe that one.
I am glad the child is alive. BUT TO PREVENT THIS, The boyfriend (why don’t they get married?) must have a vasectomy. or the mom must be sterilized. Otherwise how many more abortions will she attempt.

ABORTION STOPS A BEATING HEART.

God didn’t want that baby to die. He must have something special planned for him. Just love that child, he is blessed.

Abortion is murder, plain and simple. Amazing the little guy actually survived the assault on his life! Usually, the abortionist ensures completion by assembling the little parts in the pan to make sure he or she did not leave any inside the mother. Makes me wonder if they killed a twin without realizing there was another baby in there.

Petersmom, it was probably easier for her to termiinate early than to carry the baby to watch him die. Sometimes, things are easier if done earlier. Yeah, she may lose a baby through abortion, but that to me would be easier than carrying a child for 9 months to watch him die 20 minutes into life. But you know, maybe I’m sick in the head too fo not wanting to watch a newborn die.

Hopefully this woman’s experience will make other pregnant women who are considering abortion think long and hard before making a terrible decision. I would really like to see Jodie Percival become an advocate for the Pro-Life movement–her story is certainly very thought-provoking, wonderful, and exciting!

Anyone see the irony? The mother can’t imagine having to deal with the death of another child yet she opted for abortion. How perplexing and sad. However, the story has a GREAT ending for everyone concerned. Perhaps that was God’s way of getting MOM to see the light:) May the family not have to undergo anymore pain from sickness and death and may this healthy child help sway public opinion on the selfish convenience and immoraity of most abortions…

What a story. Seeing stories like this make me wonder how one can be in favor of abortions!?!?!

Where is the publicity for this story? I watched a long spot on a bear cub that was caught in a tree in N. J. this morning and certainly think this story should have been deemed just a little more worthwhile for your viewers!!!!! You might have said something like “Isn’t it amazing and proof that God does have a plan for this little boy!” Certainly Fox has this front and center on the web page but what happened to the coverage?? I’m very disappointed.

Zeus has plans for this child.

Miraculous! I guess these blobs are really babies after all. Not just human tissue until they somehow change when they’re delivered. May this child be blessed all the days of his life!!! What is wrong with mankind? They are just as precious before delivery as they are after delivery!!! Disadvantaged? How utterly stupid can this be? We all have some form of “defect”. If there is fear, then get fixed. But, trust me, this little one will win the hearts of many. He has won mine!

…but abortion’s not murder…

Apparently this is more common than you’d think. If Obama becomes President, he opposes legislation that protects the surviving baby.

While in the Illinois State Senate six years ago, Obama was the only senator to speak against the Born Alive Infant Protection Act, which protects babies who are born alive after a failed abortion. In other words, it prevents flat-out infanticide. A year later— while the U.S. Senate was passing Born Alive 98-0 – state Sen. Obama quietly killed an identical bill in the state committee he chaired!

Doesn’t God have something special planned for every human being on this earth? That is why, in the first place, He created a living human inside every pregnant woman, and why He intends that each survive until natural death.

How very sad that Lisa could not bear the anguish of losing another baby, yet she could kill it by abortion. Where was her anguish then??

I am so tired of all the anti-abortions that want to sit there and preach to people about how wrong it is. Everyone wants to sit all high and might acting like they have never done anything wrong in their life. Yeah, so maybe this little boy is meant to be. But what about all the babies that are naturally miscarried? They are not meant to be, and if a baby dies through abortion, abvoisly that baby wasnt meant to be either, otherwise we have have numerous miracle abortion surviving babies. So before you jump on your gold and jewel studded throne, and judge anybody and everybody for their decisions, try and put yourself in that womans’s shoes. Why don’t all you anti-abortion goody two shoes out their give being pro-choice a chance. I’m pro-choice and my choice is nver to have an abortion. But it keeps me from being so judgemental of those who have made the choice. I can sleep at night knowing that I am criticizing everyone for their choices in life. Oh, and FLNonny, selfishness and immorality of abortions? How bout the selfishness and immorality of your comment simply for being so judgemental and self righteous. It’s selfish to judge cause she didn’t do what you would do. This is why I don’t join groups because every group wants to claims that their way is the only way. I pity you closeted fools.

I would like to be in the room when she tells the lad she (oops) tried to kill him once but failed. “But I’m glad I failed, Son, because I love you. ” I’m sure this is a story the Murder on Demand lobby wishes would just go away.

Jo,

You are sick and tired of people telling you how wrong it is? Is that because you don’t want to hear opposition to your viewpoint? Beware the sound of one hand clapping. I admit that many in the pro-life camp come off as holier than thou, and sanctimonious, but that is only because they believe so fervently that the right to life is just that. A RIGHT to live. The Pro-Abortion lobby is equally fervent in their belief that unborn children are just “masses of tissue” so there is no moral reason not to terminate them. You seem to have difficulty supporting your viewpoint without resorting to ad-hominem attacks.

Dear Simone-thank your mother for not aborting you so you can rant to all the pro-life individuals. I believe in pro-choice as well, but I believe the choice comes BEFORE you are pregnant-not after! We are pro-life because someone has to look out for the babies. And I am tired of people who say not to be judgemental-I have that right! We should be judgemental, how else do we make a civilized society? If we weren’t judgemental, there would be no laws. We make “judgements” on a daily basis! It does not make you self righteous, it makes you smart! Society decides everyday what is right and wrong-pedophelia is wrong, murder is wrong, stealing is wrong and the people who commit those crimes are criminals. Judgements! And if you think you are above being judgemental, ask yourself the last time you made an important decision. Judgemental! I look at that baby and cry-how many more cry to be saved?

And WE think we have all the answers!! God had other plans for HIS child!! To all prayer advocates for LIFE — Thank You for another battle won!!!

Amy (NJ)

Amen Simone

…………..They are not meant to be, and if a baby dies through abortion, abvoisly that baby wasnt meant to be either………….

Huh??

I thought people only aborted “unvialble tissue masses” . . . . I hope this child sues the doctor for attempted murder. Think about it.

Simone,
No one is saying that they’ve never done anything wrong. There is right and wrong–God says so. Babies that are naturally miscarried are miscarried naturally because God is in control of that, not because a parent aborted them. There is a huge difference. You and I are not God to determine that. So, God’s commandment also says, “Thou shalt not kill.” Do you reason that if you murder someone who is 20 years old that that person isn’t meant to be?
You my friend, are being very selfish and judgmental in judging FLNonny for her opinion, which by the way has God’s backing. Judge righteous judgment my friend, not your own misguided opinion. That was what Jesus said. There is truth in this world–he is called Jesus Christ. That isn’t opinion, that’s truth.

“…doctors told the couple the baby was likely to survive, so they decided he deserved another chance at life.”

Whether that was said by the parents or the writer of the article, either way, it speaks of the sad condition of this country. The child miraculously survives the abortion and that is now the sign he deserves ANOTHER chance at life. What about his first chance that was almost destroyed? I understand the difficult situation this couple was in, being that their first two children have had major kidney issues. I’m sure the couple didn’t want to bring any discomfort to their child if he was born with any kind of disfunction. But I wonder how uncomfortable he will feel when they have to tell him that he almost wasn’t given a chance.

My heart goes out to this family, but more importantly to this little child who needs to know they are loved and more than deserving of life.

Ben
“The question of the ages, inside of me it rages, will I become who I am, who “I AM” says I am.”

Sounds like Simone is a broken person. Anyone who thinks others are being “judgmental” to take a stand in defense of innocent human life must also think that opponents of slavery were being judgmental when they opposed slavery, and civil rights advocates were being judgmental when they opposed ethnic discrimination. It is the duty of all civilized people to strongly oppose what is wrong and strongly uphold what is right. It is what makes a culture civilized. And believe me, aborting babies is about as uncivilized a practice as we can imagine. Tiny humans are burned with chemicals, dismembered in the womb, have their skulls crushed and their tiny hearts injected with heart-stopping drugs. Babies who are aborted and accidentally “survive” are left to die on the surgeon’s table like so much refuse. Tiny body parts are dumped into dumpsters and disposed of like medical waste. How barbaric! History will condemn our culture for these acts. So, Simone, maybe we are self rightous but you are blind, callous and insensitive if you think there is an ounce of humanity in the abortion process.

What an amazing testament to God’s sovreignty?!

So, how can a “baby” be aborted. Isn’t it politically correct to only abort fetuses? This just holds a bright light up to what is being done every day to babies – they’re getting “terminated”. If you don’t want to get pregant – use control – yours or artificial means. If you do get pregnant – give it up – don’t kill it.

I have to agree for the most part. I think flagrant abortions (people who use no protection and engage in sex and see abortion as a quick fix) is wrong. But this woman had lost one child and was trying to prevent conceiving another, but it didn’t work. She had to endure the pain of loosing her first child after carrying it for 9 months and her second child has bad kidneys as well. I don’t blame her for wanting to spare her child and herself from pain.
I’m sure God had a hand in how this all worked out, and while I know His thoughts, I am not quick to believe that He is judging her anywhere near as severely as some of the people on this message board. Be quick to love and slow to judge. Isn’t that what Jesus did?

And by the way, Simone,

We had a baby die at three months old AFTER birth. The most difficult situation we had ever been through. The doctors told us that it would likely happen again, and not to have any more children. We praise the Lord that he has given us three more healthy and beautiful children. He is in control. Exodus 4:11 says, “Who has made man’s mouth? Or who makes the mute, the deaf, the seeing, or the blind? Have not I, the LORD?”

We can see that the Lord used that difficult trial in His love to move us closer to Him and to be able to help others. Romans 8:28. For those who love Christ, everything is done for their good, to make them more like Him, even though we may not see the good or even if it doesn’t appear to us as good at the time.

God’s plans are higher than our plans.
“For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans for wholeness and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope. (Jeremiah 29:11)

God bless the child and the family…..
Jo, no one wants a child to die, but at least the child could know the loving touch of the mother…even if only for 20 minutes…. You may be able to abort your baby from your body, but not from your mind or from your heart. Simone, please reread your comment and count your own judgmental words. Science, not morality, dictates that the union of a sperm and egg of any species results in a new life. Biologically, miscarriages happen. Abortion is performed on a human by a human and results in the termination of a life. Shouldn’t society offer women in crisis more than the chance to “choose” kill their babies?

Well said Mike and Barbara!

I’m always amazed by people like Simone who are tired of people telling them what is right and wrong. I can argue all day long that I don’t agree with the law of gravity, but that doesn’t mean I will start flying if I flap my arms hard enough. It’s the same way with people like her. They want so DESPERATELY to believe that right and wrong are relative. That just isn’t the case. God has plainly said, “Thou shalt not kill.” One can argue all day long that God didn’t mean that, but it won’t change the fact that He did, and still does. And by the way, that Commandment means “Thou shalt not take innocent life”. It has no bearing on the death penalty. That is another and completely different matter.

I am so glad this little one survived the butcher! How anyone could think that allowing your child to die a natural death would be so much harder than than having your child’s limbs pulled off one by one is beyond me. I hope that there will be people out there that will see the hypocrisy and horror of abortion.

I think the lady, her husband and the doctor should be arrested for attempted homicide. There are great cries to save the earth, the animals and all the plants; but greater cries to kill the unborn humans. Very sad.

Jeff and Simone, your statements are sooo stupid! If you choose to “abort/murder” your baby it was your choice that made it happen, totally different than a miscarriage! Only a very small percentage of babies will die with multicystic dysplastic kidney. I know, one of my 5 have a multicystic dysplastic kidney and leads a perfectly normal life, only requirement: no contact sports in high school or college! If you do not want to have babies, go have your tube tied, you idiots! Where is common sense in this picture? Scot, how could you say abortion is not murder? You need to read the process of abortion!

“I was on the (birth control pill) when I became pregnant,” Percival, 25, said. “Deciding to terminate at eight weeks was just utterly horrible but I couldn’t cope with the anguish of losing another baby.”

“I, I, I, I, I, I, I”. Not one word of mention about him – the little baby – from the ‘mother’. She “could not cope with losing another baby”. Do you think the baby could cope with losing its life???? So, where are the child welfare agencies to take the baby away from the ‘mother’ for child abuse???? I guess attempted murder of a child is not child abuse.

This is what abortion (murder of the most innocent) is all about – inconvenience.

“But what about all the babies that are naturally miscarried? They are not meant to be, and if a baby dies through abortion, abvoisly that baby wasnt meant to be either, otherwise we have have numerous miracle abortion surviving babies.”

The above comment is another way of saying: Anyone that gets murdered was destined to die and so as a society we should legalize all murder.

If a child (or anyone) dies due to circumstances out of our control then no wrong has been committed. The deliberate and willful act of taking the life of an innocent person (especially an infant) is a grave, immoral and barbaric act that should never be permitted in a civilized society.

I fail to see how people can not see this obvious distinction.

She couldn’t stand to go through the “anguish of losing another baby”, so she was going to murder him instead by having an abortion. What kind of distorted logic is that? And then she was angry that the hospital botched the abortion. And yet, she now says she’s glad her son lived. Someone this mentally unsound should never be allowed to keep this poor baby.

“I’ve noticed that everybody that is for abortion has already been born.”
-Ronald Reagan, quoted in New York Times, 22 September 1980

Anne- I am a mother of two. And I made the choice NOT to abort them, but I am not going to judge someone else for their decision. If we weren’t so judgemental there would be no laws? Where’s those anti-abortion laws that you judgemental people have created? Take comfort in knowing that while your voice may be loud and obnoxious, nothings being done except ignoring them because as long as people are unexpectadly getting pregnant there is going to be abortion. Deal with it.

Peg Burgess, I’m glad that you can kinda see ym point. I’m not saying that everyone should run out and abort they’re children, i’m just saying I can sympathize with her feelings. I almost lost both my children. They were going to abort my son to save me, but I opted for blood transfusion. But I can se ehow she would feel if the choice was abortion over seeing her child suffer.

Good point Kiley,
But when people believe the evolution lie, then children are no different than the earth, the animals and the plants. We are all the same, if evolution is true. However, if we have a Creator. . . . we are unique beings made in God’s image and immensely different and more important than any other created being or thing on this earth.

I don’t think that lady should be allowed to keep her child. She says she wanted to save the baby and herself from pain, but the fact of the matter is she and her husband were only thinking of themselves. She doesn’t think that the baby in her womb wouldn’t feel a thing when it was murdered???? She is a selfish and sick individual and I hope she realizes what she almost did to her child twice. Praise God that he saved the baby and may this happen so many times that the media can no longer ignore it.

can we try the parents for attempted murder??

It is a sad time we live in that because a child is presumed to be diagnosed with a serious illness, it neglects the value of their life. The OBGYN practice that I go to as a prenatal hospice ministry that helps women whose babies will die during or soon after pregnacy. I has brought much healing and peace to the families who suffer which having an abortion early won’t bring.

The natural conclusion of this type of thinking, of preventing birth becasue of serious illness, is that there wil be generic testing on born people and those suffering from major illness (Parkinsons, Down Syndrome, etc) will be euthenized “for the good of the family/society” with or without the persons consent. It is only a matter of time. There is already a professor at Priceton who advocates a monther should be able to kill her child up to one year if she decides she doesnt want to keep him or her.

So, Simone, as I mentioned before, you didn’t answer. If you kill a 20 year old, is it just that that person wasn’t meant to be? If that’s wrong, and it is, then it’s wrong to kill an unborn baby. God is the giver and taker of life, not you or me.

Simone, do you not think that several of us anti-abortionists HAVE been in the situation and decided that it wasn’t our call to kill our baby? Get off of YOUR throne and don’t assume that we haven’t had to make some hard choices We just happen to make the correct choice…come what may. By the way, miscarriage is a ‘natural death’ which is what Fontat was mentioning. Miscarriage happens without it being anyone’s fault. Abortion is murder since it was the actions of the mother that caused the death. See the difference?

I just pray God’s plan for her and her fiance and her child is revealed throughout this – I am thankful it is not me that is left to judge – God has extended Grace to her and I pray that this child has faith that his mother never did.

this baby deserved to live. shame on this mother! God is able to heal any type of sickness or disease! abortion is WRONG!

Luck. Chance. It happens. Rare, just as the abortion survival was rare, but it does happen. Just as luck and chance happen. Life is like that, but it’s life- natural, not supernatural. Be real, for crying out loud.

??????How can this be Planned Parenthood tell us it’s just a “mass” not a baby??????

First off I want to say that I am completely pro-life. I am also against drunk driving, stealing , lying, adultery, and the list goes on. However I make the choice on a daily bases not to judge others for the choices that they make that I believe are wrong. I fight for my beliefs but I do it without demeaning others.
I do not agree with the original decision of this family to abort but, I also do not view them as monsters because they made that decision. So many people who fight for God turn others away with their negativity and harsh judgements. If we could just love one another and leave the judgements to the Lord.
Hate the sin not the sinner! If we hated all sinners there would be no love in the world.
No matter what choices this family made God will be with them and their child, he will love them regardless……maybe we as Christians should follow His example.

God Bless

You know, I see alot of people have alot of valid points and veiws on this situation. BUt I can help but feel sorry for the mother. While everyone is commenting on God’s hand being the only thing that should take or give life, tand more than likely making this woman feel worse than she probably already does. Put yourself in her shoes. She now has to look apon that child everyday and think on how she tried to take that child’s life. That is punishment enough. So rather than throwing it in her face that abortion is wrong, and fighting amongst each other on the perks and falls of abortion (yes simone, i am talking about you, you are no better than the people you are bashing, and your hypocritical) Bless that woman and pray for her to have the strength to love and take care of that child while having to deal with the painful truth that the baby was almost not a part of their life. And Mike, that was a beautiful and touching story. I’m sorry for your previous loss, but happy for the blessing bestowed apon your family. I too know what it is like to lose a baby. It is very hard, but it is great that you had the strenght to get through it and are now blessed with beautiful healthy children.

“Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you.” Jeremiah 1:5. God is still in control.

WOW, Simone, don’t you realize that pregnancy is the natural consequence of sex, not an accident? If people are not prepared for the possibility of bringing new life into the world, they should not be engaging in sex. This may sound like an alien concept in the 21st century, but throughout history people knew this. This modern culture of unbridled sexual license has brought about abortion in the wake of sexually transmitted diseases, broken marriages, pornography, and a FLASE idea that sex is a recreational activity. And by the way, pro life activists are doing something about it every day, reaching out to men and women facing crisis pregnancies, offering material and spiritual support, helping them fix the mess they are in. Go visit a crisis pregnancy center some day, there are more crisis pregnancy centers than abortion centers in our country. A BIG component of the pro life effort is teaching people sexual integrity so they don’t repeat the error. Pro Life people are not judgmental, they are very compassionate and our hearts break when we seen what people are doing to themselves and to their innocent unborn children.

There is a reason that baby survied abortion….It is in God’s plan for him to be here. God does work in mysterious ways! Welcome to the world Finley! You are already a strong person in my eyes….Thank God everyday mom and dad that it did not work and that he is okay! (doctor’s ARE NOT always right)!

Imagine how that child will feel knowing that his mother didn’t want him so much that she tried to terminated her pregnancy? She was okay with her decision and then realizes he is still there 10 weeks later. She looks so overjoyed now. I thought she didn’t want him? Poor baby.

I’m sick and tired of all the stupid excuses anyone gives to try to justify the killing of the innocent unborn babies. What is wrong with ALL of us.
We should be marching, striking, walking, praying, and anything else to stop the killing of our future citizens. Where have we gone wrong? Greed, selfishness, inconvience, lack of love, caring, responsibility, the sense of right and wrong, are all part of what the fabric of the world is made up of now. And we are all paying for it now, either by aborting babies, or just letting it happen…..I imagine that if a pregnant women had to LOOK at the dead baby, she’d only have one abortion, and repent the rest of her life over it. We are paying for it in ways that are just being realized now in the fact that there are so many babies THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN YOUR DOCTORS, LAWYERS, FIREMEN, POLICEMEN, WORKERS, MOMS AND DADS,
PRIESTS, ETC……….WE HAVE INDEED CREATED A REVERSE PYRAMID OF LIFE THAT WE WILL ALL HAVE TO PAY FOR……..AND BY THE WAY, WHO DO YOU THINK IS GOING TO PUT INTO SOCIAL SECURITY FOR US WHEN WE HAVE COLLECTIVELY ALLOWED THIS TERRIBLE, TERRIBLE THING TO HAPPEN TO OUR BABIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THE SAYING “IT TAKES A VILLAGE TO RAISE A BABY” IS NOTHING COMPARED TO THE FEW WHO PASSED THIS MURDEROUS BILL TO KILL!

I think it is ironic that she “couldn’t stand the anguish of loosing another child” so she decides to KILL HIM! Makes a lot of since huh… I glad she determined not to try and kill her son a 2nd time.

What a great story! They called him a baby in the womb, not a FETUS.

Wow, Simone . . . good thing everything in life doesn’t follow YOUR logic….for example

a. As long as there is alcohol, there will be drunk drivers . . .daal with it
b. as long as there is poverty, there will be thieves…deal with it
c. as long as there are guns, people will get shot….deal with it
d. as long as there are women and porn, women will get raped…. deal with it.

Deal with it.

Quote:”so they decided he deserved a chance.” ——- As if it’s even they’re choice.

This is a reminder to me that even highly trained Doctor’s can be wrong in they’re diagnosis. This is where a moral decision needs to be made. In this case trying to play god has proven that our feeble understanding of “science” is not enough to go by and thus should be a moral decision NOT scientific.

SIMON, HOW CAN SOMEONE WHO’S HAD SEX “UNEXPECTANTLY” GET PREGNANT….THE SECOND YOU DO THE DEED IT CAN HAPPEN! (SEX CLASS 101), WHETHER YOU WANT TO PREVENT IT OR NOT……. IT’S UP TO GOD, NOT YOU!! SURPRISE!!!!! YOU ARE ONLY CARING FOR HIS CHILDREN, IF YOU KILL IT, YOU REJECT THE GIFT FROM GOD, AND THE RESPONSIBILITY OF TAKING CARE OF THE BABY! IF YOU DON’T, THERE ARE CONSEQUENCES, IN THE HERE AND NOW OR IN THE HEREAFTER!

God is absolutely the giver of ALL life. He obviously has a plan for this child, as He does for all of us. I am against abortion for any reason. God gives all life and takes it in His own time, we are not to decide who lives and dies. I think as a society we put far too much emphasis on “quality” of life which is a relative term, all life is precious and is a gift and we should embrace it as such.

No one can put herself in that woman’s shoes…she made a choice against life and is now grateful she had a second chance. The pro-life view is one of favoring life and I think there is a sound basis for that in scripture. The pro-choice favors the mother’s choice. While I think everyone has the right to make choices about their own body, I believe that choice also extends to the baby and I can’t imagine any baby choosing to die. Given that every bit of what will make that child unique and special is there at the very instant of conception, destroying that life can be nothing short of murder. We claim to be a civilized society, yet we allow the murder of over 47 million members. Not only that, but we murder the innocents and that is addressed very strongly in scripture. Some choices in life are difficult but this shouldn’t be one of them. What I find most profound in this article is the fact that, given the choice, she fully acknowledges she made a mistake. She’s one of the lucky ones in that her mistake didn’t take the life of her son. God is truly the God of second chances and his grace is unfailing. The life of her son is certainly a testament to that.

To Simone: You chastise everyone for being judgemental, but please look at yourself first. Are you not judging them?

I was conceived after my father had a vasectomy. My parents were destitute, already had two children, my father was dealing with alcoholism, and they were on the verge of a divorce. They scheduled an abortion but Mom had a nightmare the night before the appointment. A little girl with brown eyes was screaming, “Why me, Mommie!?!” The next day, she was so shaken that she didn’t show up to the appointment. My father was furious and they divorced before my second birthday. We were thrust into the welfare system, where my mother worked her tail off to make ends meet and rise above the system. In a short time, her self-made business was doing well enough for us to buy a house and get off food stamps.

Today, my Mom, my two brothers and I are all thriving. We remember the hard times with a determination to make our lives as successful as possible, in every way. Currently, I am 28 years old and pregnant with my first son, a 20 week baby inside my tummy, who I already love with all of my heart. It is infathomable to me how someone could kill their own child, no matter what the situation…especially if the situation is something as ephemeral as financial or relationship problems. Are we not stronger than that? Do we not have the ability to face hard times and overcome them?

I am adamantly against abortion, but I do understand that everyone comes from a different set of beliefs, deeply ingrained in their DNA as well as their societal structure. However, certain people are also naturally “takers”, depleting the system, ruining lives, committing fraud, theft, murder, etc…and we as a society have developed a government to protect the innocent and punish the guilty for their crimes. To me, abortion is one of the greatest crimes a person can commit, and I wholeheartedly believe it is up to the government to protect the little ones that can’t even speak for themselves.

Shame on Obama for voting for the Live Birth Abortion bill. He has lost my vote. It is murder, pure and simple.

SLAVERY WAS A BAD LAW, SO IS ABORTION—DEAL WITH IT,
AND ANYONE THAT VOTES FOR EITHER OBAMA OR HILLERY IS CONDONING THE CONTINUED KILLING OF OUR FUTURE CITIZENS…..

THE ONLY THING THAT SHOULD MATTER IN ANY ELECTION SHOULD HAVE BEEN TO PRESERVE THE RIGHT TO LIFE LIBERTY AND THE PERSUIT OF HAPPINESS IN THIS DAMNED COUNTRY! WE ARE DAMNED BECAUSE OF WHAT WE HAVE ALLOWED TO HAPPEN TO THE INNOCENT!

I FIND IT IRONIC THAT WE ALL CRY ABOUT THE DEATH AND DESTRUCTION THAT IS GOING ON ALL OVER THE WORLD RIGHT NOW, WHEN WE KILL MANY MORE EVERY DAY-QUIETLY-SILENTLY-AND OUT OF SIGHT-WHAT A SICK SOCIETY WE HAVE BECOME……..WE SHOULD WEEP FOR ALL OF US——

To Simone-

Your Statement “Take comfort in knowing that while your voice may be loud and obnoxious, nothings being done except ignoring them because as long as people are unexpectadly getting pregnant there is going to be abortion. Deal with it.”

My wife and I have two kids, well 1 and 1 on the way. Niether of them were “planned”. In fact we were planning on not having kids until after I get out of school. But here is the deal, if I as a married man choose to have sex then I am responsible for the concequences of that choice. If someone chooses to jump off of a 10 story building but then half way down changes their mind it is to late; he has already made the choice. Life is full of choices and one thing that everyone must learn, I thought everyone learned this as a kid, there are concequences for every action. So, if someone does not want kids, and will choose to abort them if they do get pregnant, then they should not have sex.

-Scott

“Hey mom, why did you try to kill me?”

“Because I love you, don’t you get it? What, are you one of those pro-life whackos who doesn’t understand that?”

I find it interesting that they chose to terminate the pregnancy because they could not deal with the anguish of losing another baby. That makes zero sense. By terminating the pregnancy they were losing the baby. Only they were causing the loss, rather then the disease. It really angers me that people can justify something so awful as a termination of a pregnancy to make their lives easier. God has a special plan for that baby. Hopefully he will learn the value of life even if for a short time.

Are you kidding me??? She was going to have an abortion b/c she couldn’t stand to watch her child die??? I gusess out of sight is out of mind, so when you murder a baby in the woumb it’s alright.

I don’t envy what they have been through, and I hope the baby lives a healthy life. But what a sad, sad state our world is in. We allow and encourage people to kill babies.

Simone

im usually a very polite and cordial person, and im also a big women’s right advocate, im pro-gay ritghts,im usually defend everybody’s rights and respect their desicions and lifestyles because i know its none of my bussines what they do with their behinds.. im even torn about this story and im not judging this woman because she went through a lot of pain losing her first son so i its not like she is just acting like it wasnt convenient for her, or anything like that.. thanks to God that this angel survived!! this is a beautiful ending!! with that being said, im glad you can sleep at night,because you are not judgemental to others.. good for you… but im just wondering if you are one of those “respectful people” preching respect and equallity for “everybody”, but wait.. just with one exception.. an inocent, defensless, unborn baby!!! why?? just because he cant scream and make you feel bad for killing him… i know you wouldnt do it but attacking nice people like the ones in here that have the courage to stand up for the unborn and defending people that do it is as arrogant and judgemental as you can get… i was raped.. and i never thought about aborting my baby, and that experience didnt change my position on abortion either… because i do value all lives!!! including the unborn babies ones.. so i better stop wasting my time and words on people so arrogant and fake like you, because a lot of nice people already gave you some intelligent and compasionate responses … the only thing i want to add is i feel sorry for people like you… so fake… if you preach respect for everybody, be consistent and respect everybody and if that makes me wrong, abnoxious and mean for you , i dont care !! if defending the unborn , defensless makes us all pro-lifers horrible so be it!! , i have a suggestion for you though… like somebody said… im assuming you support murder, because if you murder someone that person wasnt meant to be, so go and ask to make murder legal as well and respect the serial murderes desisions, because you are not judgemental!! and finally you think that nothing is being done because as long as people are getting unexpectingly pregnant are going to be abortions, and we have to deal with it… dont count on it… i would continue fighting for every human beings life and we are going to continue voicing our opinions and telling people like you how igonorant, fake and arrogant are .. and if the truth bothers you … deal with it!

If this baby were American, Barack Obama would want to legally kill it. As an Illinois State Senator, he singlehandedly blocked a bill to require doctors to provide care to babies who survive abortions.

He doesn’t want women to be “punished with a baby” (his words), so he would punish the baby using the death penalty.

Let’s remember this in November!!!

This is the most selfish woman I’ve ever heard of.

I’M not able to handle the loss of another child. I’M aborting because it’s easier for ME to deal with. I’M aborting so WE won’t have to care for another sick child.

God, how does that make your older son feel? Not to mention the one you tried to abort. Can’t wait until you have to explain THAT one to him later. I’m sure he’ll lead a “normal” life knowing he wasn’t wanted and you tried to get rid of him, then OOPS! And you’re mad he’s still around.

Ugh. Did it ever occur to you to give your children a beautiful, happy life, regardless of how short it may be? Or regardless of how hard it would be for you? IT’S NOT ABOUT YOU.

She didn’t want to loose another baby so she went for an abortion….to lose the baby????!!!! HUH? Stellar “Progressive logic” at work again.

The ultimate defense against abortion. What if this child grows up to discover the cure for Cancer? How ironic would that be…

What would the pro-abortionists say then?

I also love how the woman said that “she could not bear the thought of losing another child”….I wonder how the child (that was supposed to be aborted) felt?

That baby (imperfections and all) was determined to live.

These are human beings people! Wake up!

God Bless you baby Finley.

Simone, I would appreciate it if you refrain from using the intellectually dishonest word “pro-choice.” Choice implies that you are making a person decision that only affects yourself. That is plain wrong. The unborn child is not given the choice not to be sacrificed for your convenience. Sooner or later in our lives, we are ALL inconvenient people to someone. Does that mean they then have the “choice” to eliminate us?! Are you prepared to offer someone else the choice” to eliminate you when you are considered too inconvenient to sustain on socialized medicine or social pensions?! Or your very presence inconveniences some other utopian ideal?!

A woman has choices. She has the choice to get pregnant. Or she has the choice to not get pregnant by abstaining from taking irresponsible risks that get her pregnant. There is NO option three not in a moral, ethical, upright world. I don’t care if she has no intentions of having an abortion herself, any woman who supports or advocates state-sanctioned genocide is anti-responsibility and pro-death.

There are no excuses. Either we “woman up” and take responsibility for our actions and accept the adult consequences of adult behavior or we don’t. But don’t you dare sugar-coat state-sanctioned irresponsibility and murder as CHOICE!

The most disturbing part about this story is the mother’s flippant attitude about taking a human life. If this child learns the truth he will always have this nagging thought in the back of his mind: “My parents actually attempted to have me killed.”

Oh my, I have so much to say. Let me start out by saying that perhaps the abortion was effective and it killed her son’s twin. I didn’t read all the comments, but I will comment on the ones I did read.

First, to Jo: An unborn child should be given a chance at life. Yes, he or she will perish eventually–perhaps at two hours, two years, two decades, or 100 years old…but at least they were given a chance to live. To say that the child doesn’t deserve that chance is very selfish on your part.

Second, to Vivian Bennett: You cannot be against abortions “except in 1% of cases.” This makes you pro-choice. A child ALWAYS deserves a chance at life, no matter what situation brought them to their mother’s womb.

Third, to Simone: How sad that you say “pity the fools” to those who believe a child should be given a chance at life. Children are innocent, yet so many pay the ultimate price. It looks like many others responded to your rant, so I’ll leave it at that.

And to Tom: Excellent comments. We all should be able to express our views, no matter how outrageous they may be.

And lastly, I think Dr. Seuss summed it up very well: “A person’s a person, no matter how small.”

This couple makes me sick. “they decided he deserved another chance at life????” He’s a baby, he deserved the first chance at life you morons!!!! So now that they might have the inconvienance of NOT having the “perfect” baby, they feel it’s okay to murder him????? sick.

The mother was afraid of loosing another child due to kidney failure, yet she makes the decision to have an abortion???? Wouldn’t be better to give the child a shot before you decide to terminate the pregnancy? Now look, if she would have not even thought about terminating the pregnancy she would have a beautiful baby boy.

Maybe this is God telling us not to kill babies!

Maybe this is God telling us not to kill babies!

Well Simone, It’s to bad your mother didn’t have your mindset.

Why can’t everyone just agree to disagree on this subject??

“Anne- I am a mother of two. And I made the choice NOT to abort them, but I am not going to judge someone else for their decision. If we weren’t so judgemental there would be no laws? Where’s those anti-abortion laws that you judgemental people have created? Take comfort in knowing that while your voice may be loud and obnoxious, nothings being done except ignoring them because as long as people are unexpectadly getting pregnant there is going to be abortion. Deal with it.”

Simone,
Are you serious or is this just a joke? There is no way that anyone with a logical thinking mind could actually think this way. Ok, I’ll play your game… so as long as there are two people of different races there will be bigotry… deal with it. So as long as there are guns there will be murder… deal with it. So as long as there is… I could do this all day with everything else that probably bothers you. Frankly the majority of the folks that are typing at you are for life. They have made a stance there life is precious and should not be taken. They have said this is wrong and we are not going to stand for it. But you say…deal with it. Wow! Good job Simone. I pray that you are not injecting your retoric into your two children. I’m teaching mine to honor God and value life. By the way, life starts with conception…duh.

Brian

Well that’s just great. What happens when he grows up and reads this article to find out the mama tried to kill him. Wow. People make me sick.

This was her right in general to do what her and her future husband wanted and I don’t blame her for it. But to see a miracle like that is awesome. The baby is beautiful.

Again though this is the reason that women are given right like this. Freedom to do what they want with their lives. I know this was in another country but if every country was like that think about the population change and the death rates or murder, job losses. I am thinking long term of course but it’s the right of the individual to do what they want even if the right consists of abortion.

Excellent comments, Barbara. People should know what happens to their unborn children. It makes me want to cry. Children always deserve a chance at life.

And Jackie, you’re right–will our society ever reach a point where we will kill whoever inconveniences us? Even older people are put in nursing homes because their family doesn’t want to have to deal with them. Our children, the most precious of all, are being killed for no good reason. And those of us who stand up for their rights are condemned for it? I don’t understand.

Wow, Hallie, that little girl with the big brown eyes is you. Amazing! What a wonderful story to be able to tell.

There’s a reason why we are here. We all deserve the right to live. And we need to unite and stop sitting quietly when billed are passed supporting the killing of the most innocent. We need to stand up and fight! Our unborn children’s voices are not being heard.

Well, lady. make the best for him. As unexpectedly he came, unexpected plans may God have in mind for him. YOU WANNA SEE GOD LAUGHING? TELL HIM YOUR PLANS. It’s not you who decides things in life. Somebody else is. Up there. Look, take care you both, i hope you understand you have a little miracle with you, he happened to you, not everybody is that lucky. God Bless you.

In response to Simone….

You just totally contradicted yourself!
1) Not one of the anti-abortion comments said anything about being high and mighty. No one has said anything about being perfect. You accused them of that yourself! Which tells me you are feeling guilty for something… But that’s okay… Pray and repent God forgives!

2) You were just talking about us being judgmental and you end by calling us fools and passing judgment on all of us for our stance against abortion? That is what I think is so funny about you liberals. You are all the time screaming peace and happiness and saying not to pass judgment on someone…that is until they say something you don’t like or that conflicts with you liberal mindset. So give it a rest and stop pretending.

I am thrilled that this little one survive and am curios too about how mommy is going to break the news that she tried to kill him. Her reasons for aborting were totally selfish and I hope God uses this miracle child to bring her and her fiancee to a knowledge of Him.

I happy to hear her baby was born healthy. I wish I was in her shoes. I had an abortion in Jan and I regret ever going through it. Congradulations on the birth of your son.

just wanted to add that i agree with Robin C. completely! this woman made a choice against law, but she is happy and gratefull that she had a second chance!! we have to celebrate that! this is gonna change her life and hopefully others as well! histories like this make me cry! im extremely happy that this baby is alive and he is sooo beautiful! thanks God!
Simone
its obvious to me that you are a very hurt, insensitive and misguided person… i cant understand how pro-choicers think because i value every single life!, every life is sacred and deserves respect, yes…even the unborn babies! im not going to tell you anything else because everybody in here already gave you very intelligent and compasionate responses, just take a very good look at your hearth and if you ask that we respect others desicions withouth any judgment, you do the same! every human being deserves a chance in life and respect! great answers everybody in here! its nice to see that there is still people out there that love and value life!
we were thinking about voting for Obama as well, but now , i would never do it!! he deserves infanticide, shame on him! babies are the mos beautiful, pure and precious thing in this world!
Im so happy for this woman, her husband and her baby and i wish them the best , i hope they can enjoy and take advantage of this wonderful second chance in life!

Wow, Simone, you are as judgmental or more so than those you are condemning. So much for liberal “tolerance”.

As the mother of 2 Angels, I would like to say… how could she!? There is no excuse. I have lost 2… but I want to be a mommy soooo bad, You could tell me my child would not live to see the next day after birth, and I would still hold on. Only GOD knows the plans for the child. Doctors anger me when they sit around and play God. No one can know for sure that the baby is going to live or die! After all… I was downs, and my mother already had 5 children and just couldn’t take care of a downs baby… I’m so glad my mother didn’t listen… b/c I was born perfectly fine! How could you kill the child yourself and be ok with it? It is hard enough having God take them, I could never live with doing it myself. Shame on these people. Thank you God for having a Sense of Humor. =)

I pity the poor little guy!! He has to live with parents that didn’t want him! Abortion is murder! Whats better to murder you child or let it die of natural causes!!?

To all of you peachers: Don’t say aboration is bad and then think it’s a sin for a woman to use birth control. It’s either one of the other.

If birth control was more available to women and not thought of as a first class SIN (sin pills) maybe aboration wouldn’t even be an option!

Thank God for the little champ. If we substitute the words kill and murder for words like terminate and procedure we will see the picture in all its horror.

I’m glad for the grace of God that He saved that child. I feel bad for the child though. I mean this story is on the internet now and what will the child think if he finds out his mother tried to abort him?? I’d have serious emotional issues knowing my mother wanted to kill me and not even give me a chance at life despite the odds that I would have complications after birth. Lord have mercy on that child’s soul. God must have some VERY special plan for this little one.

God the Holy Spirit is the Author of Life. A man and woman cooperate with God’s plan in conceiving another human being – this child from the moment of conception always has the Right to Life – as God says – Isaiah 43 V4 Because you are precious in my eyes and glorious, and because I love you.” and each human being belongs to God – Isaiah 43 V1″…Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name: you are mine.”

What a wonderful miracle that God saved this innocent holy, precious child from the fear his mother fealt and the cruel death of abortion – the silent scream – the horror of the lies and fears Satan tries to disguise as the truth. Only Jesus Christ is the Way, the Truth and the Life.

I know a family whose child was severly ill and they were told by doctors to abort the child as he had “no chance” of survival. They chose life and loved him all through the nine months of pregnancy and held him in their arms along with God as their strength in his short life here on earth.
God now holds their child in Heaven and continues to give this family strength.

Peace be with you who read this testamony of life!!

Killing by abortion needs to stop. What a little survivor he was. I hope all see the miracle of life for what it is…not controlled by the human hand. Thank goodness Finley survived. He is a miracle.

Seriously!:
I believe I’ve read all of the posts and I don’t recall reading anywhere a “preacher,” as you call them, saying it is a sin for a woman to use birth control. There are other options. If one chooses not to use “sin pills,” get a condom…or abstain. If one finds themselves pregnant, there are thousands of people desperately wanting to adopt. There are always options. The point of most of the posts, in my opinion, is that this child deserves a chance at life and shouldn’t have attempted to have been aborted because of the possibility of him not living long.

I find in interesting that Pro-lifers avoid certian situations like the plague.

What if a woman is raped, is it fair to make her go through the pain of birth, to have to look into the eyes of her attacker everyday of the rest of her life?

What if the mother will die as a result of the pregnancy, Who has the right to live then?

If it’s been said that the child will not survive after birth, is it really fair to put a woman through the torture of having to go full term, give birth, and THEN lose her child, and know everyday of her pregnancy, for 8 months or so that the child within you is going to die, just as her other child did?

The fact is, Life is not black and white. Sometimes there are situations which call for really tough decsions. This woman had to make a REALLY hard choice, but the fact is it was HER choice, not any of yours. You have the right to beleive what you do, just as she does. This was her decision, and Thankfully for that little child everything turned out ok, and it has a chance at a healthy life. It’s not fair to judge her till you’ve walked a mile in her shoes.

Aborting a life as a form of birth control, or becuase you arent ready for a baby, or becuase it was unexpected Ill agree, a person needs to go through the consequences of their actions, and have the baby, and give it up for adoption, but not all abortions are for this reason.

If more people on this planet were compassionate to the hard choices that sometimes are required maybe it wouldn’t be such a hard place to live.

I think in this case opting for an abortion is quite understandable with her history. I can see not having a child suffer and die from disease. However, I think with the history this couple has had, they should have had a more effective birth control plan. Depending on which spouse the kidney disease came from, they should have been sterilized! This would have been the better choice than having to go threw such a terrible decision. On another note: If abortion were illegal, we would have 6 million babies a year! Our system is allready overloaded with children of all ages growing up in foster homes. How about people for Pro Life step up and adopt? Walk the walk!

Have you ever seen the special on orphans in Russa? There are 200 + cribs lined up with babies and only 4 nurses to take care of them. The result: They don’t cry for help, and they develop atrophy. These children can’t be normal and develope. Pro-Choice BABY! I understand the fustration and hurt, however we all cannot control everyone in this big world. To each his/her own!

Amber,
We don’t (or at least shouldn’t) live by feelings or your hypothetical situations. I agree 100% that her choice was probably very difficult. However, if you believe that there is a God and that He has left us concrete truth in His Word, than all of our feelings or hypothetical situations don’t matter. Truth is truth. People don’t want to be tied down to truth though today. It’s very inconvenient when it doesn’t fit our desires or thoughts. That does not make it any less truth though. Exodus 4:11 again answers the questions.

How has life become so “disposable” in our society??
It saddens me to the depth of my being.
There is absolutely no respect for life anymore.

Amber:

Well, I’m pro-life and I’m not avoiding anything.

Let me ask you something…regarding your first comment about a woman being raped…did that child ask to be there? Is it that child’s fault that he/she is there? Does that child deserve to die because his or her mother was raped?

I would say that most, if not all, mothers would say that they want their child to live instead of them. Do you have children? I do, and I can tell you that I would give my life for my son…anytime, any day, anywhere. That will be true forever.

To be able to hold your child for just a few moments after he/she is born and know that you did everything you could for him/her, I can imagine is very much worth it. Being able to see your child’s face and hold him/her…I can’t imagine how it would somehow be better to kill him/her.

A child always deserves a chance at life.

My daughter was born with mulitcystic displastic kidney in England in 2005. I have NEVER been told she could die from the condition. She could get very sick and need a transplant when she is older but cannot die form MCDK.

I never read blogs or whatever this is but the story is to compelling not to say anything.
All of the prior and future comments are or will be from the living once a fetus and currently on GOD’S planet. Be the voice of the Unborn if you call yourselves a member of the Human Race. There is no excuse to Kill or murder someone who doesn’t have a voice.
We can save a whale, polar bear and any other creature the foolishness of our leaders say we should and yet they say someone has a right to die without a voice in their own fate. We house the unholy and unfit of the world in prison and for all the havoc they have done to families we keep them feed, educated, and otherwise healthy they just cannot go out to play anymore.
Send a message and all the 540 members in Washington home and replace them with real Human Beings.

Don’t you see, Amber? When you support allowing abortion, you allow it for all reasons. You don’t like it being used as a form of birth control or because one isn’t ready for a baby, but what difference does it make? Shouldn’t it matter more that the child is there rather than how it got there? It’s just so sad to me.

Some people are confusing “Didn’t want the child” with “Didn’t want to go through the pain of delivering a terminally ill child or a late term miscarriage.”

What has happened to our respect for life?
We are not the authors of life or death; that is left to a higher power. All abortion is wrong in the eyes of God; in all of our eyes if we would open them wide enough to see. Killing an innocent person/soul is NEVER justified, no matter the circumstances.

So everytime the boy gets in trouble, he’ll just get to say, “uhh, mom before you punish, remember you tried to kill me!”

It is not one person’s right to decide that another person should die. And stop with your stupid hypothetical situations. I’ll address the “Pro-lifers avoid certian situations like the plague” question. YES they should have the baby. Adopt if they need to.. but it’s a life, not a choice, not trash. The life of the mother vs. baby is so rare that’s not even worth addressing. Stop with your liberal agenda and think what is morally right.

Wow, there are a lot of people who think they are Jesus reincarnate on this site, rabidly spewing condemnation and hatred for this couple that made a terrible choice.

I am pro- life…let’s get that out now. I’m also not going to be Simone-bashing, she’s heard enough.

I have lost children. You are not putting yourself in this woman’s shoes. She thought her unborn baby had a TERMINAL illness. She held her first, sobbing, as he took his last breaths. Then she buried him in a tiny casket. It probably took all of her emotional and mental sanity for a long time. Then she gets pregnant again (she was on birth control) and it was shown the new baby had the same illness and would probably suffer after birth.
SHE THEN HAD A FIRST TRIMESTER ABORTION.

Thanks for you reply Jthro, but Im certianly not a Liberal. I have and will continue to always Vote Republican, and respect life above all else. but sometimes tough choices have to made. I understand that. I also understand that it isnt fair for anyone to berate this woman, or tell her what a horrible human being she is for making a mistake, based on a doctors Opinion. They were on birth control, they were doing everything They needed to do to keep from having more children, becuase they knew this would be a problem in the future. Even had she had her tubes tied… babies are still born in that situation.

Allowances have to be made for extenuating circumstances.
And no just becuase i support aborbtion in Some cases does not mean I support it in others. The laws could be written so that those who would die, are raped, or are looking at the death of thier child if born be made allowances with perhaps Doctors recomendation or police report only.

Compassion is what is lacking in this world, and what we need more of.
have Compassion for the pain she must have gone through in having to make that decsion and delight in her joy, as she found out her baby would live a normal life.
THAT is the moral and right thing to do. To have Compassion. Would Jesus have condemned her? No I dont think he would. He taught of Compassion, not hatred.

Seriously,

I’m a believer of Christ. I know that abortion is wrong. I am all for birth control. How did you come to the conclusion that ALL Christians are against abortion and birth control? So does that mean that everyone who is for abortion is for birth control?

I read these comment boards quite often and I’m tired of angry people boxing others in.

It’s important to understand that as thinking ‘intelligent’ beings we have control over our bodies. Many pro-choices believe in this but perhaps not in the context in which I’m speaking.

I am a 28 year old woman and I have control over my body!

If I don’t want to get pregnant then I don’t have sex. If I have sex I use birth control and I keep this thought in the back of my head ” I could get pregnant”. If I felt I could not deal with the responsiblities that a child brings then I don’t take a chance for pleasure….I abstain. Period.

Women need to get a back bone and start taking responsibility for their actions. If you lay down to make the baby…then lay down and have it or don’t lay down at all.

As radical as this might sound….there is a little thing called “self pleasuring”….I’m sure it’s not a secret anymore.

True control over your body goes beyond the choice to kill another body that’s inside your own.

We are more than our ability to procreate. We have a choice in not killing.

I agree that we must hate the sin …love the sinner. I hate the sin…killing. I love the woman who decided not to continue the assault on her unborn child.

Every minute, at least one woman dies from complications related to pregnancy or childbirth – that means 529,000 women a year. In addition, for every woman who dies in childbirth, around 20 more suffer injury, infection or disease – approximately 10 million women each year.

Five direct complications account for more than 70% of maternal deaths: haemorrhage (25%), infection (15%), unsafe abortion (13%), eclampsia (very high blood pressure leading to seizures – 12%), and obstructed labour (8%). While these are the main causes of maternal death, unavailable, inaccessible, unaffordable, or poor quality care is fundamentally responsible. They are detrimental to social development and wellbeing, as some one million children are left motherless each year. These children are 10 times more likely to die within two years of their mothers’ death.

Yeah I see your Point Jthro, Totally not worth mentioning. That was sarcasm incase you didnt catch it. Open your eyes.

Amber I haven’t read anyone suggesting or saying anything like you are suggesting. I am prochoice but not for those wanting to use murder for birth control. rape, incest are two examples of when a women should have that choice, it is so rare that a mothers life is in jeopardy, using that excuse is terrible. Did you know Amber that if pregnancy causes migraines that is a viable, legal reason to abort, ugghh!
I am in agreement with you that it is good all turned out ok for that baby!

This is why abortions should be illegal. If this does not prove the lengths God will go to to protect the unborn, then I do not know what does.

Broken – If her child had MCDK then she was not carrying a terminally ill child. If she was then I want to have serious words with my daughters pediatrician! My daughter is not terminally ill. She has 1 cystic kidney, 1 healthy kidney. She is a thriving little girl and I never considered her as going to be having a disadvantaged life.

I am staunchly pro-life. But when I read this miraculous story my reaction was not one of anger toward the parents, but rather amazement and awe. Finley is a precious baby, and I believe that for some reason God preserved his life in spite of the abortion procedure. As much as I despise abortion, any rhetoric that isn’t well-seasoned with compassion doesn’t seem right to me.

How wonderful that Finley survived!! It makes me so sad that many abortion advocates claim that they want it to be a rare occurence while 20 million plus babies have been killed in America alone. The VAST majority of which are out of convenience. I hope this will help stop some mothers who are considering abortion from going through with it.

Wow, This site is bombarded with militant rabid Jesus incarnates who enthusiastically dish out judgement and hatred to this anguished couple and anyone else who has another viewpoint. (‘Their opionions are wrong, I have the TRUTH’ – do you see why you people are so freakin’ annoying??) Enough Simone bashing, please! She may have made statements that made you angry but come on! Saying that ‘those parents should have their kid taken away’ , ‘that woman is so selfish’, ‘why aren’t they MARRIED’….what is WITH you people? Get off your jewel encrusted thrones!

I am PRO LIFE too, but let’s not be so rabidly condemning of this couple and the terribly decision they made.

Let’s see…She held her precious son Thane, sobbing, as he took his last breath. Then buried him in a tiny casket. Gets pregnant (while on birth control) and is told the new baby has the same terminal illness. She then has a FIRST TRIMESTER ABORTION, at 8 weeks the child isn’t even termed a fetus yet it’s an EMBRYO. There are no little arms and legs to assemble on the table. Please stop using emotional images to get people riled up. Now for many people the trimester the deed is done is neither here nor there, I understand. But she attempted to avoid the child’s suffering, and her own as well (let’s not forget the father’s suffering and his choice in the matter). OK. It didn’t work. The story ended well. We are all happy. NOW STOP WITH YOUR BASHING. Put yourself in her shoes, if you can since you are all so squeaky clean (never had sex outside of marriage, or had an unplanned pregnancy, never spoke cruel of your neighbor, took a dump and not cleaned the toilet seat, etc). I know…it’s hard to have dirt in your past and baggage on top of those high thrones you all sit on.
I have lost a child too. Faced with her choice I don’t know what I’d do. None of us do. If you had her choice and you chose life from the start GOOD FOR YOU…YOU GET A COOKIE. MAYBE GOD WILL LET YOU KEEP YOUR THRONE AND YOU’LL GET A FANCIER HOUSE IN HEAVEN OR SOMETHING.

Hate the sin, not the sinner please. No more trashing people who disagree with you like that Simone character. Your just proving her point.

And stop trying to win debates by hysterically yelling that ‘you have the TRUTH’, ie, the bible. You’re not winning any hearts and minds with that one. You’re just part of the din and the racket. Stop proving your points with bible verses and use common sense and science. I am a scientist and a practising Buddist (i am asian) and I am pro life because I see the sense in it. You TRUTH HOLDERS do not corner the market on life and death because you have a bible in your hand. I could say the same thing about you and tout my religion. but that would be rude.

To: Seriously: Since birth control was legalized in our country, unplanned pregnancies have skyrocketed out of control? Why? Because people are having sex with no intention of getting married or raising a family. when their birth control fails they figure it is their RIGHT to kill the child. This is the sick mindset that our country embraces! Before widespread use of birth control people were a lot more careful about who they were having sex with, so to say that birth control prevents the need for abortion is completely contrary to the evidence, people are out there acting like bunny rabbits with anyone and everyone, so LOTS of failed birth control and unplanned pregnancies will continue to occur.

To Amber: Find a book called VICTIMS and VICTORS and hear first hand from women who conceived as a result of rape. They testify that the abortion is worse than the rape and haunts them far beyond the memory of the rape. There are lots of wonderful people walking this earth who were conceived by rape, thank GOD their mothers did not impose the death sentence on the innocent ones.

To suggest that a baby should be aborted because of the suspicion it might have a birth defect is callous and selfish. To suggest that it is right is to suggest that all the handicapped people walking this earth should have died before they were born. Caring for others is what makes us different from animals.

What amazes me is that there is ALWAYS a MEDICAL speculated GUESS. Its never a possibility that there’s a higher power involved?
I am so glad that He has saved this child.

Anyone who supports abortion or carries out an abortion should be executed. Destroy the evil. For you people are the enemies of life and compassion.

Amber.
as i told you before i was raped.. so i can speak from personal experience about this situation… being raped was the most horrible, painful and humiliating experience in my life… thats why i dont like talking about it but when it comes to abortion i decided that it was worth mentioning it… im still dealing with the scars and the damage of what happened to me.. it was a long time ago and i still feel the pain and the anger, the guilt… but maybe im a very odd person but i never, ever thought for a second about aborting my baby… it was just a matter of knowing that my little baby , was that, my baby!, he was mine and he was another innocent victim of this monster… so why punish him for that monster’s fault!! the doctor that i went to see suggested the abortion and he even started to make planes with my parents but i said, no way!!!! it may sound completely out of this world to some people , but the simple thought of being pregnant made me smile..i felt like i was getting something beautiful and a miracle from the horror that i went trough… thinking about my baby, help me with the healing process, knowing that i was not going to be alone and that there was someone that needed me , help me to stop thinking about my own pain.. unfortunately my baby didnt make it.. i had and early miscarriage, and i still cry my baby’s loss…i know i cant talk for all raped women because we all are different, but at least for me it was just a matter of trying to get over ourmyself a little bit, just for a second and think about this other life that is just another victim of a henious crime!!! thats why i dont understand the people that support abortion…
about the other difficult situations i wont give my opinion, like with this poor woman… because im not her, and i can see it wasnt easy and it was painful for her…my hearth goes to her and im glad she got this second chance in life! im very pro-life and i would never have an abortion under any circunstances, but thats just me…
i know im not perfect but murdering an innocent human being is never ok.. now just celebrate this beautiful miracle that survived!!!!

God bless him and his siblings in heaven. Romans 15:13.

Audry..
settle down now. It’s okay. All that being said, this is yet another example of why we shouldn’t take the lives of others (ie, unborn children) into our own hands. Nobody said life is easy… especially when those who struggle through such decisions feel that they did nothing wrong. But… that’s life. I feel for them, but quite obviously, for those who think they’re going to lose their baby… the show ain’t over ’til it’s over. This is a prime example.

Man Plans, God Laughs

Wow GIGI!!

You’re too intelligent for this board. WELL SAID!! I am impressed.

Jodie, You tried to kill your baby, but are happy now that he survived? Please stop procreating.

Simone, I hereby judgmentally judge you as an ignorant, godless liberal.

Your obnoxious rant shows your absolute ignorance.

Abortion, like murder is an intentional act. A miscarriage is an unintentional, devastating natural occurrance. It’s very complicated.

All humans fail to do the right thing from time to time, but you don’t know the difference between right and wrong. Don’t worry, though. You have a future as a liberal, where right and wrong are irrelevant.

This headline is deceptive. The baby did not “survive an abortion” as Fox news suggests. The baby was never aborted in the first place because the procedure failed.

The, “baby,” survived an abortion attempt? I thought it wasn’t a baby. I thought it was just a, “blob of tissue.” The double talk of the abortion industry never ceases to amaze me.

This is just another proof positive example that God is still incontrol. God is the CREATOR of all life and has a purpose for every life He creates. He must have a great plan for this special child, and I am grateful that He once again showed his omnipotence in protecting this child from being murdered.

It appears that personhood is being determined by the emotions of a mother.

(a) Last week a mother was concerned about a potential disease and determined that her unborn child should be terminated.
(b) This week she finds that her unborn child survived her termination process and now wants to keep him.
(c) Weeks later (after birth) she determines that he really does have a serious disease and, again, wants to have him terminated.

Therefore, please help me understand why the law allows a pregnant mother, with significantly fluctuating emotions, to dictate the fate of her unborn child.

Who would want to be the child on this Russian roulette roller coaster?

All I can say is that in a few years that kid is going to be ticked off. Not only did his mother try to kill him, she was upset when it didn’t work. AND there was nothing seriously wrong with the baby in the first place.

Rightly so, that kid deserves to hate his mother.

Can you see these parents trying to explain to their son ..Well when you were little we tried to kill you! ABORTION is MURDER! Im glad this kid survived .. He survived because God wanted him too! This should be a wake up call to these young sluts that use abortion as a form of birth control too! If you dont wanna kid? Keep your damn legs closed! Or use a proper form of birth control when your messing around!

The dingo ate your baby…

When will people understand that when there is a pregnancy the woman is not carrying a fetus or some kind of tissue. It is a human being. I am glad that this chld survived; however, I would not want to be this mother the day that she tells her son that she tried to kill him. May God help America to see the sin of abortion!

Amber,
Abortion for MEDICAL PURPOSES, by advice of a DOCTOR, was never illegal in our country…abortion ON DEMAND was, until an unelected Judge decided that aborting for fiscal reasons was a constitutional right. Speaking of numbers (like you quoted all those seemingly impressive statistics…btw, how many women die or become sterile due to botched abortions…nm – that was sarcasm in case you missed it), did you know that 30% of Planned Parenthood’s budget comes from abortions? Most companies, when they want to sell more widgets, start an agressive marketing campaign…like maybe putting out all those statistics – is that where those came from? Anyway, we could “What if” until we’re blue in the face: What if the mother is raped? What if she’s a victim of inscest? What if the baby is disabled? What if What if! The BABY has no choice, nor does the father – that’s not pro-choice…it’s just plain, old fashioned SELFISHNESS.

How horribly selfish of the mom to not want to be inconveinced by a slightly less than perfect baby! Also, it was very selfish of her to not want to put herself through the possible agony of loosing a baby!! WHAT ABOUT THE BABY? Doesn’t he deserve a fighting chance? God be with that little fellow when he learns he parents tried to kill him!!

I can”t believe newspapers put articles in and think we the reading public do not remember articles of past famous people that the same thing happens too,for instance David Brenner the comedian,his mother tried twice to do away with him ( 63 yrs ago ) before he was born and he’s fine ( a little crazy funny,but normal). I like previous blogers feel God has good things in store for this unsuspecting little miracle.

That abortion doctor should be charged with attempted murdur and jailed. As should the parents.

God Has A Plan For This Angel…

What!!!! Did you see what you wrote?!! This woman tried to KILL her Baby! Quote: “This was the baby I thought I’d terminated. At first I was angry that this was happening to us, that the procedure had failed. I wrote to the hospital, I couldn’t believe that they had let me down like this.” Look at this! “many times the pregnancy is so small that doctors miss removing the baby,” Alvarez said. “The danger is that the failed attempt can damage the baby. That is why these patients who get early terminations need follow-ups.” Another scan a week later confirmed the baby also had kidney problems, but doctors told the couple the baby was likely to survive, so they decided he deserved another chance at life. This is Insanity! I can’t believe what I’m reading. People are talking frankly like it’s normal to kill a baby. This woman should be arrested for attempted murder. Imagine what her son will think when he finds out his mother tried to kill him. Unbelievable. I thank God that He saved this baby…maybe He’ll use him to do great things to stop people from killing unborn children.

This woman and her boyfriend disgust me. Their parental rights ought to be “terminated.” Have they considered how this child will feel when he learns that his parents tried to rid themselves of him when he was at one of the most vulnerable stages of his life? How can these people be trusted to protect him in the future? What if he gets a disease? Is he then deemed worthless? This child’s survival, even with his kidney defect, proves that he had a right to live. Whether the parents choose to acknowledge it or not, there is a power greater than our human selves out there. They should be thankful for that greater power that this child made it. I hope the little boy’s existence can teach others the value of life. Let his life be a symbol on behalf of all of the millions of other “unborns” out there. Perhaps other self-centered individuals, like those parents, will think twice before terminating another life.

I’m sick and tired of pro-abortion people seeking an excuses for abortion so as to not feel guilty. Did it ever occur to them that you would not exist if their parents decided upon abortion? There are other options than murder, but then again, our society is desensitized to horror and emotions so it’s acceptable. Since babies and disabled people are most vulnerable and defenseless, they are the easiest targets.

As for God’s plan, He has numerously shown DISABLED people overcome obstacles and achieve great hieghts much more so than some of us abled are. Through them we learn that anything is possible if you put your mind and heart into a goal and into living life fully.

It’s obvious that this little one is a fighter and will prove his worth to the world.

The LORD (God) works in mysterious ways.

I can just imagine how the parents will one day reflect, perhaps at a family gathering, how lucky this child was to survive. They could also remind the child of this event when he mis-behaves or is being unreasonable. Maybe something like “you’re only here because of a botched procedure”. It could also be helpful to leverage against the other sibling.

This is so-o-o-o-o messed up.

“Women that have early terminations in weeks six, seven and eight, many times the pregnancy is so small that doctors miss removing the baby,” Alvarez said. “The danger is that the failed attempt can damage the baby. That is why these patients who get early terminations need follow-ups.”

The danger is also that a successful attempt can kill the baby. What twisted language we have invented.

I am sorry to send this to folks that disagree with me on this issue, but I truly believe that our generation will be judged based on what we did to stop this, just as we look back on the 1800s and the anti-slavery cause in the U.S. and the anti-anti-semitism cause throughout history. Detailed ultrasounds are starting to show people that unborn babies are more than just “tissue” or “fetuses.”

History is on the side of progressive causes that broaden the definition of who qualifies as “human” and against causes that try to limit who gets included and treated with human dignity. It’s inevitable that the human race will wake up one day and see this for the horror that it is. The question is not “if” but “when” and what will we have done to help usher in this happy era and end the insanity.

Will the baby be allowed to file attempted murder charges against the parents? It’s an abortion one day and murder the next, what a difference a day makes. There truly are some twisted minds in this selfish world.

To Simone:

“Where’s those anti-abortion laws that you judgemental people have created?”

Back when the rule of law was respected (not whatever “view is popular right now”) every state could decide what abortion laws would be in place- or should I say the people could decide what laws were in place. Then 5 people who happen to wear robes decided that we couldn’t have those laws. So to answer your question- “judgemental” people who hate Christianity convinced a few people to overide the will of the rest of the country.

Does anyone notice that the word baby is being used here throughout the whole story even in the part about the doctors missing the “baby” during the abortion. What is abortion if it is not infant homicide? Don’t we put people in prison for that? What a perfect story to illustrate that this is a life we are talking so glibbly about.

This story makes me think of a friend of mine who has always been into nursing and is now a nurse practitioner. But when we were younger, I recall a story she told me about working with newborns. You know there is sometimes some wagering that goes on among the staff, and my friend felt she could guess much about the birth. So one day the doctor came out and told her that he bet she couldn’t guess how THIS one was born! My friend finally gave up, and the doctor told her that the baby would not shift into the birth position, and it became so serious that the doctor has to do a Ciserian section to remove the baby. When he opened up the womb, the baby was spread eagle, arms out to the sides, feet out to the sides, anchoring itself in the womb to prevent extraction, as if saying, “NOPE! I’M NOT COMING OUT! I’M STAYING HERE!” I’m tellin’ ya! These babies UNDERSTAND!

I am pro choice, obviously so is this child. His made his choice!

God 1
Twit doctors 0

To Audry: Thought that I would fill in some information for those who read your comments. Leave aside the commentary on the importance of Christianity and the Bible. I would like to correct some information concerning the 8 week baby (‘embryo’) that you described and implied was not really ‘a ‘baby’. At this stage a child not only has arms and legs, but fingers and toes, the beginnings of lungs and neural network, and a strong heart beat. It is easily recognizable as a human in development.

I would also add that Deb and I have lost a child. We know exactly what we would do if faced with this scenerio in our own lives. We would do everything we could to nurture the life of our child until such time as he/she died. I would add, with no malice toward you, that ‘the Truth’ that you spoke so condecendingly about allows us the knowledge and understanding that ‘all things work together for good’ even that harsher events in our lives. If your ‘truth’ does not provide the same comfort, I pray that you are never faced with this choice.

Shouldn’t your own mothers womb be the safest place in the universe? “It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.”-Mother Teresa of Calcutta

These people are sick…how nice of them to decide he deserves another chance at life. Who do they think they are! Only God has the right to determine life and death. I would not want these selfish people as parents.

THIS IS WHY YOU DON’T KILL INNOCENT CHILDREN BECAUSE YOU THINK THEY WILL NOT MAKE IT!!! MOST OF THEM WILL, THEY JUST NEED A CHANCE!

I LOVE THE PEOPLE WHO SAY THEY COULDN’T BEAR TO WATCH A NEWBORN DIE, SO LET’S KILL THE BABY BEFORE THEIR BORN, WOW, THAT’S LOGICAL.

THEY DON’T UNDERSTAND THAT WOMEN WHO HAVE HAD ABORTIONS BECOME DEPRESSED TO THE POINT OF MENTAL DISORDERS AND START ABUSING DRUGS AND ALCOHOL TO DEAL WITH THE PAIN OF KILLING THEIR CHILD.

You people make Christians look bad. Seriously. You all think you’re holier than Jesus or something!

To those of you saying it makes no sense that she had an abortion to spare her child suffering, it makes PERFECT sense when you get off your high horse and think rather than spew quotes. If the child was BORN it would suffer it’s entire life, then die, right? That’s what that mother thought she was doing. So she chose to kill the child so it wouldn’t experience this horrible anguish any parent would avoid giving their child. You’re right, that’s obviously horrible! And people saying they shouldn’t be allowed to have children? Who do you think you are to judge? She wanted an abortion to save her child from suffering, aka she was trying to be a good mother, and you think that’s a good reason to remove her child from her? Exactly how does that make sense?

As for attacking Simone, most of you are yet again showing hypocracy. You quote the Bible to support yourselves, but the same Bible that teaches love and tolerance is what you use to rudely attack another woman for having an opinion. I missed the Biblical passage that said “compassion and tolerance for everyone EXCEPT PEOPLE YOU DON’T LIKE.” Last time I checked, everyone meant EVERYONE.

My poor mother tried seven years to have a child. She was completely infertile and they told her it would never happen. Luckily, I was born, and right after she was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. Cancer should’ve killed her. Instead, she woke up one morning saying she had a dream saying to remove her ovaries, and when she went in for the surgery, having no synptoms, they caught the cancer early enough to save her.

Here’s why I bring this up. Her grandmother died of ovarian cancer. She shouldn’t have survived ovarian cancer. It skips a generation in my family, as far as we can tell. Do you have any idea how difficult a decision it is for me to ever have children? I want children so badly! But would I curse my daughter with possibly dying of cancer? I don’t know what I’d do if I became pregnant, I really don’t, but I don’t think I should be criticized if I did choose to have an abortion. I think that whoever is up there, whatever God or Goddess or whatever, would welcome that child with open arms and spare them the suffering if I did choose to abort it. Even having to make that choise is excrutiating! How DARE any of you stare this woman’s pain straight in the face and spew hatred at her! Maybe you should be in her shoes. I, for one, pity her.

TO AUDRY:

Looks who’s talking? What gives you the right to put down another person’s religion? Because it is en vogue to hate God and put His people down?

Please do not insult Our Lord with your rabid anti-Christian viewpoint. I could say that Buddhism is not a religion, but a false-religion, based on IDOL worship.

You have apparently rejected the good God. I pray you will have a conversion of heart and learn a little respect for other people.

God bless this young child and his mother. He is Gods little miracle. Hello to the world this is Gods message saying “LET ME CHILDREN LIVE!”.

The only real points on this issue are: Nothing is more precious than a Human life. All children, including the unborn, deserve a chance to live. Unborn children are the most defenseless and deserve protection from harm in any way.

This is Gods way of telling us killing our unborn children is wrong, God bless this litle child!

WOW!!!! At what age do you tell your kid you tried to kill him. Imagine when he finds out. And he will with the news articles and all. I can’t imagine trying to kill your own kid. Since she already tried to kill him once, willl child services investigate her?

I knew this board would turn into pro-life against pro-choice. As I always say….why oh why do pro-lifers who are so intent on ‘taking care of the baby’…meaning every single baby who is conceived…put their energy towards changing our adoption laws. Our adoption laws suck…a legal black market. All of the energy to keep the abortion from happening directed towards actually making sure these babies find loving homes would really make a difference. Try protesting to change legislation that allows agencies to charge $50k and up to adopt a child…or kicks a couple out because they have bad credit….otherwise you are not protecting anything…simply rallying to keep abortions from happening and not worrying who is actually going to take care of that child, or what kind of life that child will have in foster care. Foster care is no picnic…I have met many children who are suicidal in the early teen years from being sexually molested etc…in foster care. Just because you are given a shot at life doesn’t mean life is going to be great. If you really care about these babies, care about their whole lives, not just their coming into the world. Put your protests towards a worthwhile cause.

As for the pro-choicers…promote getting fixed if you don’t want a baby. I”ve never understood using abortion as birth control…I can understand this woman’s story as no one wants a child to suffer with a terminal disease…but if you knew the risk of another baby having it — GET FIXED.

barck hussain obama voted that babies that survive abortions should be eliminated as soon as possible. This was a vote taken and only the most extreem pro abortion people voted in favor,old obama was right there.Kill babies, they dont vote ,right obama hussain

If she had tried and failed to kill him after he was born, he would have been taken away. Just because he hadn’t been born yet, she tried to kill him and he should be taken from her.

I find the first line of this interesting “…..overjoyed that he survived the procedure”. The procedure she wanted in the first place….doesn’t seem to fit to me.

i am so happy the baby survived and i hope she feels guilt and shame everytime she looks into her sons eyes and remembers the day she tried to murder him.

And we have a winner for the “Mommy Dearest Award!”

I bet she sues the doctors and hospital next.

I am surprised she is so willing to go public with this story and to smile for a picture!?!? It is shameful she tried to kill her baby. Poor little guy is going to grow up knowing he wasn’t wanted and Mommy and Daddy tried to kill him.

Comment by Paul in NJ
June 5th, 2008 at 8:32 pm
God bless this young child and his mother. He is Gods little miracle. Hello to the world this is Gods message saying “LET ME CHILDREN LIVE!”.

Paul, I didn’t know God was a leprechaun… It should read “Let Me children live! They’re always after Me Lucky Charms!”

Could it be that God frowns on abortion? God bless this child of His.

If a gunman kills a woman with child he is tried for double murder
If the doctor kills the child he gets a check.

go figure

LET YOUR VOICE BE HEARD!! We pro-lifers need to unite & start doing something instead of just standing by while crazy people push the killing of our most innocent…including the Democratic nominee, Mr. Barack Hussein Obama, who believes that a child who was aborted & still lives should be killed quickly. This is completely contrary to many pro-choicers who believe that an unborn child is not a child until it emerges from the mother. So which is it?

It just goes to show that God’s will is stronger than we could possibly imagine, and, this world, and everything He created will be changed according to His Will and His Will alone! Abortion is murder–no person or law has the right to destroy life God creates. Do not mess with the author of your being. God is now and always has been in control, and He will outlast this world which we foolish creatures decide that it is ours to toy around with scientifically, etc..

Didn’t quite make sense…abort the child so it won’t die later??? Beautiful that the little guy survived!

Interesting arguments…so let’s say a baby is born at 4:00. Kill her at 4:01 and it’s murder. “Terminate the pregnancy” at 3:59 and it’s “abortion.”

Makes so much sense.

I think God is telling us all something here. Anyway, while I do disapprove of abortion as a form of birth control, those who believe in the culture of death (abortion, gay marriage, etc…) are only breeding themselves and their incoherent views on life out of existence, which isn’t such a bad thing long-term. This is the silver lining in the horrible corrupt practices of the culture of death. And while I’m here in this arena I might as well offer to those proponents of gay marriage this, I am willing to see your marriages as legal and binding, providing every benefit as would apply to a heterosexual couple, but you have to give up gay couple adoption.. Fair trade I think, especially seeing that those who choose to go down the path of homosexuality are indeed choosing not to pro-create, therefor should not be eligible for adoption. Fair for both sides, and a very cohesive argument.

Wow…if I were her I would be humiliated to show my face. I would be embarrassed to take pictures with the son I tried to kill! Yet, she seems happy and peaceful. I could never be at peace with myself over what I had almost done to my son!

This is a messed up world we live in. A world where right is called wrong, and wrong is called right. Sigh…

This is what is never seen in the news day in and day out like it should be. People don’t like to face reality and here it is! “Little blobs of tissue” that flutter in mommy’s tummy and live after a “doctor” tries to cut them up and scrap them from there cozy, warm, wet home. This women was lucky that she was given a second chance to keep her baby. There are so many that believe the LIE that abortion is a quick fix with no consequences. This is one woman who may have been spared for whatever reason, post abortive depression and possibly abortion related breast cancer. Abortion is a billion dollar buisness that is kept alive not for women’s health but for the financial health of those that perform abortions! Fetus by the way is Latin for ” Offspring” or ” little one”

“so they decided he deserved a chance.”

How noble of them to make such a decision on the life of another human struggling to survive. Playing God is tough isn’t it Mrs Percival? But this time God had the last word.

Why doesn’t the headline read “Fetus survives abortion”. Funny how no one ever says to a lady who has had a miscarriage, “Sorry you lost your fetus.”

Just something to think about how others use words to fit their agenda.

One thing that has always confused me with the pro-choice crowd is exactly when does your choice begin? After you get pregnant or didn’t that person make that “choice” before the child was ever conceived? You chose to kiss him…you chose to disrobe…you chose not to use protection. Let’s all get real for a second…THOSE were your choices. No one should have the “choice” to kill an unborn child. Protection is easily accessable by anyone these days. Having had my first child at 17 ….was it hard? Absolutely…Was it worth it? Most definately. And so were his 3 brothers after him. I have never regretted having any of my children. And to the person who asked if a woman should be forced to look at the face of her attacker in a child’s face, everyday for the rest of her life (in cases of rape)….My answer is no. However, she seems to have forgotten the other “A” word….ADOPTION. That child didn’t ask to be put into that situation, just like the woman didn’t ask for it. But it seems the only person who has any rights is the woman. In my humble opinion, that’s insanity in a so called civil society. I find it odd that the pro-choice crowd keeps pushing the bar lower and lower to suit their agenda. When a society fights more for the protection of animals than they do for the protection of unborn children something is seriously twisted. So here’s your choices….choose to use protection or better yet….choose to keep your clothes on. Just a mother’s thoughts.

WE CANT BE GOD AND DECIDE WHEN OUR BABYS DIE .WE DONT DO THAT TO ANIMALS WHY DO WE DO THAT TO BABYS ARE NT THEY WORTH MORE THEN THAT THERES A LOT OF MONEY IN THE ABORTION BUSINESS.DOCTORS HAVE SAID THINGS ABOUT BABYS AND THE PARENTS HAVE THE BABYS AND THEIR FINE DO WE PUT OUR TRUST IN DRS DO THEY DECIDE WHO DIES NO THAT SHOULD NT BE.GIRLS ARE USING ABORTIONS AS BITH CONTROLL.

Sheila – God bless you and your baby lost through abortion. Anne – God bless you and your baby lost through miscarriage. I’ll pray for you both and for your babies. Amber – You wrote, “If a woman is raped, is it fair to make her go through the pain of birth and have to look into the eyes of her attacker every day of the rest of her life?” The baby is not her attacker. If you looked into the innocent eyes of a baby conceived by rape and one conceived in a loving relationship, I’m sure you’d see the unconditional love of a child in both cases. The love of a child is certainly the reflection of the love of God in the mirror of our lives. I’ll pray that God will soften the hardness in your heart.

I cannot believe today’s world! Let’s try to abort my baby and then give it a second chance because it deserves it. What? Since when does an unborn child have to deserve a second chance? Who are we to say, you go, you stay. What a disgusting people we have become. The hospital did that to them, what about the child? We do not, in today’s world treat an unborn child like a gift from God, but rather a convenience or inconvenience. Could you imagine if the health problems each and every one of us had after we were born were known to our mothers;would they have aborted? How many of us would have had the privilege to live? I’m so glad I had my babies, even though they weren’t under the best of circumstances. They are productive, great human beings and oh how easy it would have been to have killed them via an abortion. The thought truly sickens me. May God forgive us all.

God is still on the throne! He has a fantastic plan for this boy! He may be the one to lead his parents to the Lord…

Lets pass a law saying babys who live after a failed Murder attempt have the right to abort their parents when they get older that would be cool .

Hog wash… These stories from England on Foxnews.com are fake!!

Bekah,
You wrote, “but the same Bible that teaches love and tolerance.”

You show what one of greatest follies is in our country today (if you are from the USA.) The Bible teaches love but never at the expense of truth. The Bible does not teach tolerance. Jesus Christ was a very intolerant God-Man. Jn. 14:6–Jesus said, “I am THE WAY, (not one of many ways), THE TRUTH, (not the truth as it appears to you or me), and THE LIFE (without Him there is no other,); no man cometh unto the Father but by me.” That is very exclusive and does not show any tolerance for any other religion. There is one true religion and anyone outside of that, Jesus Christ, will be cast into a literal lake that burns with fire.

That is not tolerance. That is love by me and others who will tell you what you must do to have a life that will glorify God your Creator. The crucified Jesus for saying the same thing to others and if they did that to our leader, we are not greater than He was/is, and we should expect persecution too.

I pray that you will be born again. Really read what the Scriptures say and ask God to truly open your heart to the truth.

Mike

Rather than comment on negatives, I choose to celebrate that so many people cared enough to write about this child. There is yet hope in this world. When an eighth grade student told me she had had three abortions, rather than rehash a given, I asked her, “What did the baby do?” She replied, “Nobody ever asked me that before!!!!!” She was not pleased with the question, obviously, but she had an odd look on her face.
The mother’s life is no more important than the baby’s. She is a vessel for the development of God’s child. God would never be pro-choice, but he allows things to happen not according to his purpose. In Romans, it is stated that God abandons people who purposely choose to live wrong, those who choose not to be his servants. He doesn’t stop them from their immoral acts on this earth. The people choose to do them. God loves this child. That is what he needs. God can make anything and everything out of nothing. He’s got the whole world, including this baby, in his hands.
My granddaughter was aborted at five months to save her from pains of living. The doctor and several others read the brain scan that showed parts of the brain missing. After years of trying, my daughter was devastated, but the doctors pushed to avoid litigation. There is definitely a problem in our land. God, forgive us. God give us guts to vote prolife above any other cause. We have two socialists running, but ONE professes prolife stands. God would say that is a supreme consideration. Suffer the little children to come unto me and forbid them not, for of such is the kingdom of heaven. God cares. He tells us to become as children. God also expects us to perform. Let’s get with it. Obama’s idea to kill living abortion attempts is sick. He represents our country. Does he represent you?

Sweet Sweet life.. That infant is “expected to live a normal life”. Sweet. May God bless him/her.

I just want to say to this mother who tried to abort her baby that I am very sad that she didn’t believe that the Lord could save her baby. Although he could have been born with a disease he also could have been born fine and healthy. I pray that if you are ever given this blessing of another child again that you will stop and pray and understand that the God who created this world, and who raised his son Jesus Christ from the dead can heal even the worst diseases and even cares about your baby. To all those who believe pro-lifers are judgemental well you are mistaken. I believe we are to judge with the right motives and right criteria. Judge not lest you be judge is what the Bible tells us and this I believe. But we are to judge sin we are to first examine our own lives and see if there is any offensive ways in us. We are to confess our sins and bring them before the Lord so that he can give us a clear conscience to judge rightly. Then we are to show people why sin is wrong in kindness and love and lead them to the truth. The the bible says there is rejoicing in heaven for even on sinner who is lead to the truth and saved. We as christians are to lead people to that. That is why and how we are to judge. Abortion is wrong because we are not to murder whether it is a child in the womb or a baby out of the womb 8 weeks later. There would be an outcry if we heard that a mother killed her “helpless” 2 month old. Yet a child in the womb is considered different they are just as helpless and needy as a child who is born and alive. We should be outraged by abortion and saddened that it is even a choice.

Amy wrote:

“As for the pro-choicers…promote getting fixed if you don’t want a baby.”

Amy, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU! I don’t want to get off the subject here, but I’m sooooo glad someone other than myself feels this way. When pro-lifers and pro-choicers get into these frays, I seldom hear anyone talk about people choosing to get spayed or neutered. To some extent, I myself am pro-choice–I CHOSE to have my baby even though I didn’t intend to have kids (can you say oops!) and I CHOSE to go to my doctor years later to have tubal ligation, although I faced some resistance from conservative members of the healthcare system because I was (still am) single. I wanted it done after the birth of my son, but they wouldn’t do it. Anyway, I know this is not the topic of this post, but let’s face it, when it comes to life versus choice, we will continue to hear the same old song and beat on the same dead horse. Like Amy, I feel that it’s time to come up with other solutions that will make a difference.

Oh, and remember: Have your spouse/significant other spayed or neutered today!!!

I hope she has a living will that says she should be kept on life support if she gets in a car wreck or something and they pull the plug. She wants to flirt with life and death concerning her INNOCENT child, she can let other people flirt with her life and her death.

Sheesh, “since he will survive he deserves another chance at life”. I am sure glad every person will give an account for their own life. I would hate to stand before God and try to explain why I thought I had the right to decide whether another human being had a chance at life.
I have great sympathy for the pain this couple has endured, but nothing trumps the right to life.

To all of you who made comments like, “why are people judging this woman”, please follow the logic of your “thinking” to its end. You will find that, if no one can “judge” someone for killing another innocent human being, then no one can be held accountable for any “crime” by any definition. This is a recipie for anarchy.

No mention of a husband along with having three kids! Does England have the same degenerates we have in the U.S. (70% of Negro children are illegitimate).

werw

The last sentence in the article read:

In November, Finley was born three weeks premature. He had minor kidney damage but is expected to lead a normal life.

I think the most striking point is that in this mother’s attempt to play God and deny herself the pain of losing another child, I would imagine one of the most devastating things that could happen to you, she almost ended the life of a healthy child. As this child grows and becomes who God meant him to be, she will certainly look back in horror at her attempt to end his life. Our decision point about whether to bring a child into the world who MAY have a fatal condition should be way before the baby is conceived. I believe sex is for married adults (adult married to each other) who have weighed the risks (yes, the risks) and are willing to accept the responsiblity to raise and love ANY child conceived by them. Sex is not a right, it’s a privilege, and with privilege comes responsibility.

GOD has a plan for all of us!

To those contemplating the death (murder) of your unborn child, you will face God one day and then the judgment.

This is the saddest and scariest story I have ever read. Sad, in that the couple atuomatically believed their baby would be born with the most severe kidney problems experiences in their other two babies. Scary, in that the couple DECIDED to play God and terminate a life that could be saved. I guess the true test of their character an be summed up in the quote “so the couple decided he deserved another chance at life”. PATHETIC!

About 15 years ago my sister was at a 4 year college while I was still in high school. She got pregnant and it tore my mom and dad’s heart out. I was too young to really understand. My dad decided and talked her into having an abortion. She didn’t want to but eventually did. My mom was against that but she never spoke up to him about it. A couple of years later, I was SAVED and I came to realize that what they had done was wrong. I have never had the courage to speak to my father about it, or my sister for that matter. But in the back of my mind I will always think about that decision that he made. The reason is because he didn’t want people to talk about it. I’m sure it is embarrasing but bad decisions in life are the other part of it. You have to live with them and adjust accordingly. This is the first time I have ever talked to anyone about this. I have never even told my wife of 8 years. I have a 5 year old son and now a 3 month old daughter. I don’t think anyone, including a mother should be the one to decide if a baby lives or dies. What if your mother decided she wanted an abortion. She gave you life, now pass it on to someone else.

Steve
Don’t you dare tell me my religion is a false religion and is idol worship! How dare you. HERESY! This is a joke because you christians never hesitate to claim heresy and yell you’re being picked on if someone suggests that your Truth is not THE truth. I never once said that about christianity. Just to keep your ‘Truth’ to yourselves. I am pro life for biological reasons (life beginning at conception is a biological necessity).

To ME, your god is a False god. You will never become enlightened. Not in this life. (Feeling miffed are ya? That’s how we feel every time we’re told we have a false religion)

Great. Let’s now agree that pro-lifers need to band together whatever religion. But maybe you don’t want us? Please practice a little compassion on this woman and family please, let’s all I said. Now I’m being lumped in with the pro choicers. I see this board is full of the extreeeeeme rightwingers. I’m taking off. Too hot in here for me. Must be the hellfires comin’ for me.

PS to ‘DAD’, I have been faced with that choice. My only comfort WAS my religion, thank you very much. (BTW, that ‘choice is bouncing on my lap reaching for the keyboard as I write this). If you need comfort too, read the Pali Canon and the early Theravada Sutras to get started, then go from there.

Also, I respect and love Jesus. It’s (SOME) of his followers that worry me.

When my son was born the doctors explained to us that he was having several problems and was probably not expected to live for very long.

Those were probably the hardest and most difficult hours of my life.

If I were to know for a fact that my son was likely to die shortly after birth, I think I would have to give abortion an honest look before the pregnancy gets too far along, the pain and sheer horror of watching a son slip away is not something I would ever want to experience.

Incredible two instances where life is trying to be prevented, LIFE PREVAILS! You can not stop God’s goodness!

No doubt she’d sue the surgeon if she lived in the USA. I don’t think she can sue her doctor under the UK’s socialized medicine.

Abortion is for the convenience for those already born, like this sick woman.

Well, at LEAST *they* decided the baby should have a second chance at life. It was so big of them. This is the second such story I’ve read in recent months. I always wonder what they will say to their child in the future? The child will have to live with the awful realization that his own parents tried to kill him, and were upset that he actually lived. (oh, but now they love him….)

So many people have eyes, yet cannot see; and ears, yet cannot hear.

If nothing else, the majority of the reponses here have rekindled my own life-long fire to do what I can reasonably do to defend those who cannot defend themselves. I want to thank all of you who have taken the time to write something positive for that!

I am not defending their decision by any stretch of the imagination, but I only urge prayer over criticism for these parents. I believe God has called them as he calls all of us. It is up to them (us) to answer that call or not. I pray they see they are now involved neck deep in some of the most noble of causes; parenting, caring for chronically ill children, hopefullly seeing life in a new and wonderfully precious way, and who knows what else they may face in the future. God bless them and their family and may He lead them to better days ahead.

And a special prayer for God to bless and take care of that young one!

She’s going to have a tough time explaining why she tried to kill him … and then got mad because it didn’t work ! Poor little one . I hope he doesn’t even find out . This could crush a person . Even if it was done out of so called “mercy” .

If you tried to kill a child that was outside of the womb , it would be called attempted murder … oh , that’s right . A baby is part of your body …. hmmm , I guess that why you carry a baby forever , and it stays attatched to you . Right ? Any excuse I guess . Even if it’s stupid .

Mother of the Year!!! So her and the “fiance” wanted to prevent her baby from dying by killing it. Watch your back kid.

Ron Remo’te,

“No mention of a husband along with having three kids! Does England have the same degenerates we have in the U.S. (70% of Negro children are illegitimate).”

Why just the ‘numbers’ on ‘Negro children’….which by the way, are you living in the 1800s and behind a white sheet?

At least the ‘Negro’ mothers (and White and Asian mothers) of those 70% didn’t kill their babies in the womb.

There is a deeper issue at hand for this problem. How about doing a little history digging instead of pointing your sheet covered finger.

By the way I am a product of such a union. My father had a mental break down and couldn’t marry my mother so she married someone else. I have a son and am married to his father.

Why is it that the numbers on blacks (for anything) are always pushed out there but in reality there are FAR more whites who fit the bill but no one talks about it? Could it be that because whites put these numbers out to suite their own purpose?

And those numbers have to be blown up. Because growing up most of my black friends were products of a marriage.

Ron Remo’te spew your venom on someone else.

Glad Oboma was not the decision maker.

It just goes to show an abortion IS killing a child.

Amazing how FOX prints this story… It’s only considered an “abortion” and not “murder” when you don’t want the baby… Now she wants the baby so it’s a failed “procedure”.
Regardless of when they do or don’t want the baby – “it” is still a LIFE!!

This poor kid is such a victim all ready. Not only is he a victim of an attempt on his life by one person who he should be able to trust with his life, but he is now born to an unmarried mother. Statistics prove that children born to single mothers are more likely to be born into poverty.

Yes, I know she has a fiancee, but that little piece of paper called a marriage license still means a lot.

I can’t help but notice that all of the concern expressed by the mother is for herself – unfortunately, we have created an acceptable system of birth control (kill the baby after tthe fact) which is not only questionable from a moral basis, but is also very expensice for us (the taxpayers) who pay for it…..

Yu Yu:
I, too, am a single mom. I am adamantly pro-life, but I can tell you that it definitely would have made my life much easier had I made the choice to abort. My life consists mainly of people who are very conservative. I was raised in a Christian home and for the past 10 years, I’ve worked in a conservative church…always being taught that it is never ok to have sex before marriage. But I made a mistake in getting involved with someone, and that resulted in my pregnancy. So, at age 30, I had to tell my parents and my church family, and this was by far the hardest thing I ever had to do. But I never once considered that I wasn’t making the right decision. Because of my strong Christian background, I had the courage and strength to make it through this. It wasn’t easy and, at times, it still isn’t. But a supportive family and strong church family make all the difference in the world.

“Baby Miraculously Survives Abortion, Expected to Live ‘Normal’ Life”

When did “it” become a “baby”? the article title should have read

“Fetus Miraculously Survives Abortion, Expected to Live ‘Normal’ Life”

This just go to show you that we cannot interupt God’s plan. God bless you & your family. God knew your fears and wanted you to Know that everything will be alright. I am soooo happy for you.

The liberal mind is amazing! Why was it okay to kill this child eight months ago? but not now???

THANKS BE TO GOD, the GIVER OF LIFE! Now this child will have a chance to fulfill the life pupose He intended!

I have always been pro-life, and was tested when my teenage daughter became pregnant. She and I knew we did not want to abort this baby – but many people advised her to have one. Thank GOD she was firm in her beliefs and now we have an awesome grand-baby!!
If you look at past episodes of The Journey Home on EWTN there is the story of a woman who had had an abortion and was haunted by it for over a dozen years… yet, later, one of her children died naturally and she said the grieving process was over in a natural twelve month period; that is was far less painful to love a child and lose it, than to realize you had killed it yourself.

PRO-CHOICE ALL THE WAY! God does have something in store for that baby though…..

“Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.”

How many people can say they are sin-free? How many people can say they have not been faced with an extremely difficult desision? For those comparing this situation to that of murderers and rapists, take into consideration that this is completely different. Judging this woman for her decision does not make abortion any LESS LEGAL. For those that say you are discusted by her, ask yourself if you have ever been asked to make a decision this hard. The only thing she did wrong was make this public so those “holier than thou” people can judge. She made the choice to send her child to Jesus before he had a chance to suffer.

Is anyone here better than she is for condemning her for her decision? Does it help you sleep at night saying that she is evil and hell-bound? I am here as a pro-life person. I can empathize with her situation. I have held my dead child. I have almost died in childbirth, and I have been told I would have a spina-bifida baby. A lot of counceling got me through all that. Maybe I didn’t make the choice for abortion. I thought about it. They wanted to terminate the pregnancy with my son because I was bleeding to death at 20 weeks. I opted to recieve units and remain in the hospital for 4 weeks. After miscarrying my first and then going through that, I went on birth control to prevent further because I was told I would have future problems with childbirth. I got pregnant with my daughter on birth control. 17 weeks in, I was told there was a high possibility that she would have spina bifida. I considered abortion, but I didnt go that route. But am I evil for considering it? Most spina bifida babies don’t live long. I though about sending her into the arms of the lord before she had the chance to experience pain. Am I bad for thinking of her well being? It wasn’t until it was proved by amniocentesis that she was fine. But I still ended up on bedrest because the amnio broke the sac a little larger than it should have. I was leaking amniotic fluid the rest of the pregnancy. I was told that i should abort because the possibility of infection. So, for those saying that hypothetical situations are rare, yes they may be but they do happen. I’m proof of that. But despite the choices I made, i don’t feel I have the place to judge someone else. Are those doctors wrong for considering abortion to save my life? Am I wrong for considering it to spare my child a life of pain? If so then so be it. But judge yourself before you judge me. Speak freely to me only if you are free of sin yourself.

Tried to take decisions into their own hands and terminate life. How many lives have been stolen from this planet? It is not their life to take.

That is going to be one akward conversation one day…..

I agree with PapJon – for those you despise (abortionists) – pray for them. This really works – I have done it before.
Project Rachel helps those who have suffered from abortion – moms and now dads. “Forgive them , Father, for they know not what they do”.
Really – let’s stop condeming these folk and start talking TO them, sharing with them, not yelling at them.

As a woman who regretted aborting her first child, I’m so glad to hear that God stepped in a preserved this child. I feel for the mother, she was not doing the right thing in trying to abort the child, but God, in his infinite mercy, preserved the child and offered his precious gift to her again. This time, she accepted…and we have all been blessed. Everyone who believes in the “choice” of abortion will have to question their stance.

Understand that the evil of abortion is not that it kills the child, but that it destroys the souls of all those who participate in it. Abortion, as the killing of an innocent person, is unjust, but the child goes to the arms of our loving Father in heaven. What is left for us on earth? The separation of the mother, abortionist, perhaps father, family, friends and everyone else who participated in the abortion from God. They remain separated until they truly repent of their sin. We, as a society who have allowed this travesty of justice, become even more hardened in our sin.

Don’t get upset at the mother…rejoice that she accepted the second time and by doing so the dignity of the human person from the moment of conception was revealed to her. And maybe, through this article, to others as well. It was not the child that was given a second chance…it was her. Praise be to God.

This is a feel good story… a good one on which to end the week.

Well, I guess we need a law allowing parents to murder their children AFTER they are born just in case…

These incompetent doctors should be murdered for botching their attempted murder. What good are they to society if they can’t even kill a tiny, defenseless boy?

PRAISE GOD that is amazing when this baby is old he will have a great story to tell his grandchildren.

We believe that we are the creators of life and that we can just as easily end a life. It’s easier to sleep at night when we use words like terminate instead of kill. I absolutely LOVE it when the Lord shows Himself to be the One who is truly in control. Years from now I hope we get to hear why the Lord chose to spare this child. Clearly He has extraordinary plans for him that could not be thwarted by the misguided efforts of his parents to spare themselves the “anguish of losing another baby.” Even if His only purpose was to reveal His mercy and power, my day has been made just reading about it!

At our Misdiagnosed Miscarriage site, we have several women who had babies survive D&Cs and Misoprostol. As for misdiagnoses, we have so many stories of women who are misdiagnosed, refuse the D&C procedure and perfectly wonderful babies. Moral of the story, get a second opinion whenever possible and listen to your gut.

Bekah! Abortion is murder! Get over the “choice” thing! Also, we don’t make choices in life because our family had a disease, you trust in God and have your baby because that is what a women is here for also. You don’t live in fear, you walk by faith.

I wonder how she will tell her son how lucky he is to be alive.

I wonder how a person phrases the news, “Honey, I need to tell you about your birth! You see, I really intended to kill you. I made an appointment with the people who had the legal right to kill you. I went in to the appointment and they went through the kill-the-baby procedure. It was only much later that I realized they had not succeeded in killing you, and I was so happy.”

What version of “Huh?” might a 13 year old boy use at that point??

It’s nothing more than a failed contract killing.

Such a planned killing outside the womb would result of course in conspiracy to commit charges against such a “mother”. Inside the womb, it’s supposed to take on the air of a feel-good story.

Vile. Absolute vile.

I am really tired of the “would Jesus condemn her” comments!! Yes he would!! He does not change his word about anything or for anything! When he said thou shalt not kill, thats exactly what he meant! Not in case you think your baby is sick beyond help!! His word never changes or leaves room for excuses. He is a God of forgiveness, but he is still a God of wrath! I am tired of people making God out to be a doty old grandfather! You people that want to use what would Jesus do, need to become acquainted with my God and with the Bible!

This child is blessed. I wonder just what wonderful things God has in store for him.

Simone….as I sit on my gilded anti-abortion throne, I have two thoughts re your pro-kill-the-baby throne: 1) the “natural miscarriages” were just that, NATURAL…and the mother has no choice in the matter; and, 2) re-read your comment and insert the word “first-degree-murder” every place that abortion is referred to. It makes just as much sense.

“Wow. The man killed his wife? Oh, my. Well, if you would just put yourself in his shoes and had a little compassion, you would understand how that happened.”

Give me a break.

Heavenly father I come to you in prayer asking that you have mercy on all of those whom have passed judgement upon your child and the choice she felt she had to make. Lord forgive them for casting the stone. Thank You Jesus for showing her it was not the right decision for the angel you have blessed her with. Lord allow her son the life you have intended for him and fill his heart with forgiveness for his mother when the time comes for her to explain his miraculous story of survival.

Simone….as I sit on my gilded anti-abortion throne, I have two thoughts re your pro-kill-the-baby throne: 1) the “natural miscarriages” were just that, NATURAL…and the mother has no choice in the matter; and, 2) re-read your comment and insert the word “first-degree-murder” every place that abortion is referred to. It makes just as much sense.

“Wow. The man killed his wife? Oh, my. Well, if you would just put yourself in his shoes and had a little compassion, you would understand why he felt he had no choice.”

Give me a break.

This couple should start saving up now for the therapy this child will need when he finds out that his mother tried to have him killed for her convenience when he was only 8 weeks old. That is what I cannot understand about all these pro-choice people. They never ever consider that abortion is the killing of an unborn child. They refuse to acknowledge that and justify their stance by saying, “thou shoult not judge”. Well, we do judge, everyday. It is human nature to deplore things that are heinous and aborting a child is heinous. Anyone that says otherwise is disengenuous. Now, I know that, if this is printed, I will get alot of responses that talk about all the sacrifices that the mother would have had to take if she were to have the child and how wrong it is for me to foist that upon her. Well, I guess if you believe that a perceived burden on a mother justifies the definite killing of a child, then I ask this. Why then, after a child is born and a mother has a hard time taking care of it, why then can she not kill it? Is the child not alive when it is in the womb? If it is not alive in the womb, wouldn’t it be dead? You cannot merely state that life begins at birth, that is not logical. If the child growing in the womb were not alive, it would rot. Plain and simple.

Just a reminder when voting…

Obama voted AGAINST the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act (when a child is born alive after a failed abortion attempt). The Act would protect this child. Obama says that the child should be killed after birth because he/she was supposed to be killed during the abortion.

Abortion means you’re “losing” your baby. Wow, at least he’s alive. He’s gona feel so happy when he finds out his mom tried to kill him and messed up.

Best wishes to the child, I pray he lives a long and fruitful life. I hope the mother can overcome the guilt and anguish she must have when holding this bundle of life knowing full well that if the procedure had been successful, he would not be here today. My heart breaks for the MILLIONS of children that were not fortunate enough to have survived a botched abortion. We are killing our future while at the same time the Democrat presidential nominee (who voted against a bill in the Illinois legislature that would have outlawed killing babies that survived a late term abortion) talks about “Hope” and “Change” for the future. What about the “Hope” that unborn children have at living a long and fulfilled life? Where’s their future? At the receiving end of an abortionist’s forcepts, tearing them limb from limb and the receiving end of a vaccum sucking their lifeless bodies from the womb that was meant to protect them from harm from the outside world?

Sadly, we’ve degenerated to choosing/deciding/judging who is ‘good enough’ to be born, and who ‘experts’ say will be an inconvenience & not up to par for a quality life.

Many people with disabilities lead outstanding, purposeful, productive lives. Many with excellent physical health lead sub-standard, or even tragically wasteful lives. All deserve the same chance to live & decide for themselves.

So thankful to hear they’re letting this baby live. Best wishes to this precious little boy…may you succeed in all you set your mind to do.

What is god’s plan for aborted children?

Wait a minute, so this woman wanted to kill her child because he might later have a life-threatening condition but then she’s overjoyed when he survives her attempt on him? Unbelievable. You couldn’t even parody such idiocy.

after reading this story,and i myself working with mentally and physicaly chanlleged people,this child surrive for a reason,god has plans for him, and to mom and dad congrats,cherish your little miracle

God had nothing to do with this. The mom is a moron and I doubt the veracity of her story. I would bet this is all a plant by the anti-abortion nuts. Never happened, if it did show proof of the abortion. Perhaps a receipt? Rx? Eye witness account from a nurse? Anything? yeah didn’t think so.

NOW DO YOU BELIEVE A FETUS IS A BABY. hOW STUPID CAN MANKIND GET.

Gods plan for aborted fetus’s is to use their bones for toothpicks.

I am amazed that the woman said, she could not bear to lose another child, but yet she went for an abortion. What does she think that is- that is exactly losing another baby and purposely doing so. I am glad that the little one survived and I do hope she will love this child and see how merciful God has been to her. I am sure this child will be a blessing. And… this mother can live with herself knowing that God intervened, spared this precious life and in turn she will also NOT have to live with the fact that she terminated the life of her child. May God bless her and this child and family. I hope they will be forever changed with new hearts for the sacredness of life.

Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.

How many people can honestly say they have been faced with this decision? How many people can honestly say that you wouldn’t have done the same thing? I have been there with two children, after the death of my first one. I had a miscairraige on our first pregnancy. When I got pregnant the second time, I almost died halfway through, because i started bleeding. WHile they wanted to terminate my little boy to save me, they gave me blood instead. My littl eboy is healthy. But he almost grew up without a mother, and if I had died, he wouldnt have been able to saved at that early gestation. So who is to say who lives and who dies in that situation? Am I wrong for considering abortion in that situation? My daughter was high risk for spina bifida. I thought about terminating her to spare her a life of pain. But I changed my mind when I found out through amniocentesis that she was fine. But the amnio burst my sac to the point where i leaked fluid the rest of the pregnancy. They wanted me to terminate due the risk of infection. I chose not to. But I would not condemn someone for their choice. I am not completely sin free. I have skeletons in my closet, so I cannot cast that stone. How many people here can look god in the eyes and say they are free of sin? How many people out there bear the right cast that stone? Am I wrong for contemplating abortion? Am I evil?

Dr. Alvarez used the term “baby” when talking about the procedure. It just seems that through all the political “right to choose” vs “right to life” that we sometimes forget we are talking about babies. Human beings.

Conversation in life…

Child: “Mommy, I bet you were excited when you found out you were going to have me.”

Mom: “Actually, I had planned to have you out to death in my womb.”

Child” “Gee, thanks mom.”

What a freakin’, crazy, mixed up world we live in that has such a disdain for human life.

Farjas,

To Be his Angels

Please don’t fault the mother. Pregnancy can be an emotional time…..especially in circumstances such as this. I’m sure she already feels guilty enough without being condemned by people that don’t even know her. YES, Abortion is horrible and a sin, but she deserves a chance to raise that beautiful miracle and show the baby all of the love that she will be sure to give. What a blessing….maybe if abortion wasn’t legal and if it had not been given as an option then she wouldn’t have gone that route?????????? Isn’t it great that the lady who was the star in Roe vs. Wade is actually AGAINST abortion now? There’s something to think about. I have a friend who has had 5 abortions(years ago) and she still has nightmares.

Some of you people are unbelievable….God doesn’t spread his word through hate….so why are some of you people doing that?! Don’t judge someone unless you walk a mile in their shoes first!

To the advocates of “choice” here:
The only judgment being passed is on the value, or lack thereof, of life in the womb. Those of us who oppose abortion believe the unborn child’s life has inherent value. Those who believe it’s OK to kill them have decided that their own non-life concerns trumps the unborn child’s life concern. A heavy judgment indeed.

Cindy, we should NOT agree to disagree. We’re not arguing about what’s better-biscuits or scones. And yes, it is our business. We are a part of the human family. “Ask not for whom the bell tolls…” One day it may be you who’s life is considered value-less. You’ll be glad we don’t keep our mouths shut.

Good point from one of the first posters…why isn’t this being covered in the media. Probably because our liberal media (except Foxnews of course) would be embarressed due to the one-sided opinions.

Hey, where is the big headline in the Hartford Paper “We No Longer Have a Moral Compass.” This baby didn’t walk out into a busy highway during rush hour. This baby was just in the wrong place at the wrong time, with the wrong mother, and a murderous abortionist.

this is what happened to al gore. that’s why he’s so stiff….

No doubt God has a plan for this wonderful child. I t hink this is also a perfect comment on the quality of the Universal Health Care i the UK. Good Grief. PLEASE take this child into a home where it is wanted and loved.

This is all the more proof that children are God’s gift and we should never, ever end their lives with abortion. What was this woman thinking? That she should not have to lose another child?! Who is she to determine that? God in His almighty providence has given this child life, despite the mother’s attempt to kill him and yet he remains in her care. I surely hope that this woman has learned a valuable lesson.

I love the irrationality of the religious lunatic fringe. They’ll look at this as some sort of divine intervention. I guess this god you believe in doesn’t care enough about all the other babies aborted to do anything about them, though, right?

comment to jo

In response to your comment to petersmom. If a child dies after childbirth or in any way of natural causes, at least I as a mother am not a MURDERER!!! I would rather have 10 children die after childbirth of things I can’t control, than have just one die b/c I KILLED IT!!! I can’t imagine raising a child I claim to love, that I tried to MURDER initially!!! Abortion is the most heinous act a human can commit PERIOD. To kill a defenseless baby. It’s a baby from the MOMENT it is conceived. Let God decide who lives or dies. How many hundreds of times are doctors wrong about medical conditions and a person is just fine or able to cope and lives years longer than expected! People need to stop trying to do the job of Almighty God!!!!

If this woman had lived in the State of Texas and was the victim of a violent act such as battery, which caused harm or death to her fetus the defendant in that case could be tried for manslaughter, even if defendant did not attempt to cause harm to the fetus. If defendant would have caused the death of the mother and her fetus then defendant could be charged with Capital murder. The law is extremely contridictory here. When the woman wants to keep the baby and harm comes to the child its’ considered a crime. When the Mother doesn’t want to keep the baby and harm comes to the child it is called a “choice.”

TEX. PEN. CODE ANN. § 1.07 (26)(a) (Vernon Supp. 2006),TEX. PEN. CODE ANN. § 19.03 (7), TEX. PEN. CODE ANN. § 19.06, Lawrence v State of Texas, 211 S.W. 3rd 883-893 (2006)

I would like to add one more thought to my previously submitted post:

If this woman had given birth to the child, then found out that he had kidney disease and THEN tried to kill him and he survived, would we as a society be so inclined to give him back to her to raise and say, “God must have a plan for him…you go ahead and raise him, since he survived your attempt at killing him.” SHEESH, people! His mother attempted to murder him and is still in custody of him and raising him…and we all stand here saying…isn’t that something! Does it occur to anyone that she has no business raising a child that she tried to kill????!!!! I DO SINCERELY HOPE, AS I SAID IN THE LAST POST, THAT SHE HAS LEARNED A VALUABLE LESSON!

I think this is a pretty good sign that abortion is just terrible. We can acquire stem cells elsewhere… Look at how DAMN adorable that baby is! Just wanna hug the little guy.

Give all unborn humans the same chance at life. Your mother gave you that chance its the human thing to do.

Abortion is WRONG, plain and simple. I hope this mother can live each day knowing she tried to MURDER the child she raises and now loves. Let ALMIGHTY GOD decide who lives and dies!

Thank God she felt a fluttering and the baby was allowed to survive. What saddens me is that your comment that women with early terminations need follow up appointments to make sure the baby is destroyed may promote abortion clinics to do just this, securing that the dirty deed IS done. I hope this family become advocates against the abortion slaughter. God help us!

So she couldn’t stand the thought of losing another child, yet she was ok with murdering it. Sure, makes sense. Hopefully she’ll never have to explain why momy and daddy choose to kill him, but ubfortunately he surrvived. Guess this proves you can’t stop God’s plans. Oh and birth control tip for mom and dad: if you were relly that adament about not having another child “the pill” it not that effective, and infact tells you that in the instructions. Either tell daddy to get a grip and use a codom along with birth control, or choose a more permanet method.

For all you that think a fetus is not a baby it is obvious that you have never seen a sonagram of a fetus. To say that a baby wasn’t meant to be because it was aborted is unbelievable. It is the mother that made that choice the baby didn’t have a say. None of the babies that are aborted have a say. Hey, guess what – none of you would be here had you mother decided for whatever reanson she did not want you. You are all sick. To Simone dying by abortion is not a natural procedure it is a decision to commit murder by its own parent. You Simone also would not be here had you mother decided to commit murder and abort you.

Praise God that this baby lived, this baby boy was truly supposed to live.

“Jesus, I plead your blood over my sins and the sins of my nation. God end abortion and send revival to America!” – Bound4Life

I hope this kid never finds out that his parents tried to kill him. How do you have that conversation with your child? I hope that with the advancement of medical science that more and more people will see that this is a human rights issue (check out 3-D ultrasounds). Should the rights of the strong trump the rights of the weak or defenseless?

For me this issue is the modern equivalent of slavery. The American constitution was originally written that slaves were 3/5 of a man, and sadly even the Supreme Court agreed in its Dred Scott decision that some human beings were really property and or sub-human. We paid for this sin with the Civil War and over 600,000 died. Fascism in Europe during the 20th century treated Jews and other ethnic groups as sub-human–they were rounded up and murdered. Communism has done much the same to many. Over 30,000,000 died as a result of WWII and Fascism. Communism has killed even more.

Now for over 30 years abortion on demand has left a wake of death among the defenseless in the womb–tens of millions have perished. This is our greatest defeat as a culture–this is our fascism. Does America really care about human rights? Does Western society? Sadly human rights and the protections of the Constitution and the law in the West still don’t apply to everyone. What has become of our natural reason, morals, ethics and religious values for the weak? I would hope that we could someday overcome this in our culture and change the course of our history.

I feel very bad for this family. They face a horrible genetic problem and now a psychological and spiritual horror. They will be weighed down by guilt and fear, perhaps all their lives. I pray they find peace, hope and forgiveness in Christ. I hope their child learns to love and forgive his parents.

What a precious gift from God. The baby is beautiful. It does make you think, after looking at how precious that child (or any child) is, How can people just “terminate” a child?

Barack endorses abortion. B. Hussein has 100% rating from the National Abortion Rights League. Did you guys know that? How much do you really know about Barack. B Hussein is a very aggressive abortion activist. B Hussein would pass laws to ensure that babies like this were killed the first time. There would be no “second chance” at life if Barack was in charge. Now thats change we can believe in! (NOT)

That baby was made to be here. God must have something special for him. That is the way I look at it and I am glad the parents decided to continue on w/the pregancy!

Simone is trying to assuade guilt by condemning others. It is obvious to me that Simone has actively participated in the decision to abort a baby. Obviously Simone needs that decision to be “right” so he/she doesn’t have to live with guilt. If Simone is a woman, she had an abortion. If Simone is a man, he has persuaded a woman to have an abortion, which she carried out. Either way, Simone has participated in an abortion. Simone’s pious and hostile attitude reeks of one with a guilty conscience. Simone, lashing out in anger at others who do not follow your morally corrupt decisions will not alleviate your guilt. No one here can help you with your guilt. Only God can.

Maybe she had twins and only one was aborted. Sometimes that happens with miscarriages.

Maybe she was pregnant with twins and one got aborted. That happens sometimes in miscarriages.

There is no medical doubt that 1. a baby in the womb is life, and 2. that it is human life, at all stages of development; therefore, abortion is the taking of innocent human life.

In spite of a very confused mother, this child lives. Thank God. May she be given the grace to understand and live in the second chance she, her child and his father have been given, a second chance at life.

I agree with a previous comment about “She couldn’t stand the anguish of losing another baby?”
The women in this world have been tricked into believing that an abortion is nothing more than a medical procedure. When a women has an abortion, part of her is also taken away. It is a human life being within a women. Ask any mother who has given birth what it would be like to end her child’s life. The japanese used to celebrate their birthdays at the time of conception. That is life when growing. I am so glad this child survived a woman’s naive belief. Now she may be the mother to her child and see the abortion as something other than medical.
God Bless her and teach her the beauty of life that grew inside her.

Does anyone have anything better to do than bash on Simone and make assumtions of possible guilt? No one known that person and for all you know, it’s a 12 year old boy playing games on the computer

How is abortion any different than an animals maternal instinct to eat their sick young? Should we euthanize animals for eating their young or leaving them to die? We discriminate and condemn women for their choice to destroy their young. Survival of the fittest. And I know alot of people are going to say humans are different than animals. Yes we are but we are the same in a lot of ways. Animals eat their sick young, and this woman had a maternal instinct to destroy a child because the possibility of it inheriting that kidney condition. She already deals with the pain of one sick child. Perhaps in that situation, pre-term death is better than death outside the womb. At least the child wouldn’t have been given the chance to suffer. I understand where alot of people are coming from with their anti-abortion comments. You have the right to your opinion. I’m not saying anything bad about you guys. But did you ever look at the situation as a whole? You concentrate alot on the “hows” of abortion rather than the “why”. Just remember, that children are innocent. Whether it is before or after birth, that child will be joining Our Lord and Savior in heaven. Maybe she chose to send her child to Our Lord before he was given the chance to suffer. The death in the womb would have probably been alot less painful.

Simone-
You arean idiot! It’s not judgement on people who kill their babies…
It is a statement of truth!….DEAL WITH IT!
Barbara-
You are SO correct. Thank You!

I AM SOOOO GLAD TO SEE THE MANY MANY MANY RESPONSES FOR LIFE!!!!

LIFE IS WORTH LIVING AND IT IS PRECIOUS!!! AT ALL STAGES.

GOD BLESS ALL THOSE WHO ARE FOR LIFE!! AND ALL THOSE WHO ARE FOR LIFE.. PRAY FOR THOSE WHO FAVOR INFANTICIDE. THEY WILL BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE ONE DAY BEFORE GOD.

I ACTUALLY THOUGHT THIS SITE WOULD BE FILLED WITH PRO ABORT COMMENTS.

WHAT A SAD AND JOYFUL SITUATION !! ALL AT ONCE.!!

Kid’s face says it all… “YOU TRIED TO KILL ME, MOM!”

It’s chilling that the Mother & Doctor kept using the phrase “the baby survived”! Of course this is true, but most of the world won’t admit that abortion is the KILLING of a unborn baby. The baby SURVIVED! That means he was and is a living person at the time of the attempted abortion! Thank you, foxnews for publishing this story!

IF SHE TRULY WAS ON BIRTH CONTROL,GOT PREGNANT ANYWYA,HAD AN ABORTION THEN THIS CHILD DEF HAS A REASON TO HAVE BEEN BORN. IF ANYTHING GOD WAS DETERMINED HE WAS GOING TO BE BORN.

We are not the same as animals. That is a silly comparison. We have so much more that God gave us. Yes, I believe in God. Those who do not are entiltled to not believe. But to make a comparison of animals to humans is a mis-statement at the very least. We have the capacity to know the difference. We have the capacity to literally save the animals with medical procedures. We can treat animals. Just that alone says we have the brains , the soul, and the means to be above mere animal instincts. We make decisions. With animals, it is the animal instinct that as put earlier, “eat their young”. We as humans, made such practices illegal. And if we humans are able to, we intervene to save such a fate of the animal young. Sorry, abortion is an animal trait. We as humans, are capable of making that distinction between taking a life and saving a lifew. May God forgive those who have no problem taking life without good cause. A defect is not a reason to take a life because its difficult. Have one life to live, I’d choose to live it as best I can. I do believe inb God. And to those who don’t believe, what if I’m right? If there is a God, AND there is, his forgiveness and grace is a gift to those who believe.

I’m not for abortion, but I realize there are times it’s probably appropriate. That said, even if you don’t believe in god, you’ve got to realize that this is a great thing. God has plans for this kid. I hope he grows up to be the Prime Minister or something, but as long as he grows up normally and is happy, it’s still a Miracle!

God bless that family and yours!
Peace be with you and yours.
Tim

I remember reading not long ago about a woman whose doctor told her that her baby would be born with Down syndrome, so she aborted her child. But it turns out the child did not have Down syndrome–the doctors were wrong…so what did the mother do? She sued the hospital! This is the crazy world we live in. And it just goes to show that unborn children have NO RIGHTS whatsoever.

John, actually, we, human being, from the species homosapiens, are mammals, and if you get technical, we are animals. but we think we aren’t because we have the ability to think and practice medicine and create laws. Know your facts John.

“Humans, or human beings, are bipedal primates belonging to the mammalian species Homo sapiens (Latin: “wise human” or “knowing human”[2]) in the family Hominidae (the great apes).”

Right out the dictionary buddy, and if that isn’t fact enough I dont know what is.

Laquonda- Abortion is an act of pure selfishness. Plain and simple. To compare abortion to animals who eat their sick young as means of justifying the act is illogical. According to your logic it’s ok to eat children. And according to your logic there is nothing wrong with what Hitler or Stalin did. If you choose to be an animal then go for it but people with your outlook on life are better off not holding any kind of position of authority. You have a perverse and twisted interpretation of the word of Our Lord and Savior.

Wow, this is at the same time wonderful and also hysterical. Hopefully potential patients and doctors considering aborting fetuses who may inherit some crazy disease will factor this in their admittedly difficult, complicated, and heart-wrenching decision. Score one for the little little guy!

And what’s to say that animals didn’t make the decision to take life from sick babies?

Its good and yet, still makes me angry. His parents didnt seem to think he “deserved” to live until after he survived their first attempt at murder.

I wonder if they felt an ounce of guilt once they met their baby face to face and knew they tried to kill him.

God has a VERY important role for this baby to play in life! I am glad that our daily prayers have been answered as many of us Catholics pray daily for the babies being aborted to be saved. We will now pray daily for baby Finley as he goes through life to be a witness of God’s power over life and death! Praise God for His Mercy!!

To JAS,

I would hope that no one would call you evil for contemplating abortion.. You are a prime example of someone that clearly has a conscious and merely considering an abortion still weighs heavily on your soul. That in itself should tell you and everyone else that abortion is wrong.

Let me ask you this, if someone was shooting bullets in your direction, would you shield your child? What parent would not put themselves between a shooter and their child?

I’d be willing to put forth that it is socially demanded that a parent shield their child from harmful gunfire. In fact, we are considered neglectful if we do not protect our children from all kinds of dangers.

Yet, we are allowed to kill them before they are born.

To me, that is plain wrong, or to use your words, a sin.

You my dear, after soul searching, did not commit the sin and instead chose to cherish life. That is to be commended.

Doctors do not know everything and they misdiagnose amniocentesis quite often and at least enough that it should not be used as a deal breaker on giving birth.

Wow, Josh, you completely mistook what I was saying but that is okay. Let me break it down. Animals take means to dispose of their sick young by eating because they do not have the technology to do a medical procedure. This woman in the article did pretty much the same thing. She was worried about losing a child that had a hihgh potential of being sick and took the necessary steps to terminate that life. But since we human beings are not animals, its okay to condemn someone for making a hard decision? Its okay to bad mouth and act holior than though because we are not animals?

The horror of abortion will doom this country. 1.7 million kids are murdered every year, and this story is far from heartwarming.

She could not stand to see another baby suffer and die, so she was going to terminate the pregnancy before it became a baby.

Scott, what is sad is that people would call JAS evil Nowaadays, if you cross the street without looking both ways there is going to be someone on the other siad eof the road waiting to tell you that you are going hell for not looking.

JAS you are and inspiration and i hope alot of people find comfort in the tale of what you have been through. it shows that there is hope no matter what pregnancy situation you are in. I am glad that you were blessed with healthy children depite the hardships you endured during pregnancy

Laquonda:
This woman attempted to kill her own child because of the grief she felt she would experience if he would have been born. Don’t you see the selfishness in this? It didn’t matter to her that her own child would be ripped to shreds by an abortionist; what mattered to her is that SHE didn’t suffer. You said that children are innocent. How does an innocent child deserve death?

They thought the child “deserved another chance..”? Who are these people, God? CT

Obama voted against a bill in the Illinois Legislature that would have required that medical staff help any baby still alive outside the womb after an abortion. His brutal vote was similar to Bill Clinton vetoing partial-birth abortion bills, even though he had compromised on so many other political issues. Bush then signed the bill. As with the Hyde bill to refuse federal funds for abortion, it would seem that some voted to ban partial-birth abortion with the thought that the Supreme Court would overthrow the new way Congress had found to ban partial-birth abortion, based on alternatives being available and studies that showed harm to the woman from the procedures. Some say that the Supreme Court willingness to take into account the effect on the woman (evidence assembled by Operation Outcry) might foreshadow an overturning of Roe v Wade on similar grounds. The pro-life lawyer involved is assembling further evidence in that direction at Operation OUtcry, The Justice Foundation, 8122 Datapoint, Suite 812, San Antonion TX 78229. Meanwhile the Royal College of Psychiatrists has concluded that mental illness precedes, accompanies, and may be caused by abortion. They want women warned about such possible bad effects. And they question whether it’s really informed consent if women are not warned in this way. They also favored lowering the stage at which an abortion can be performed, a proposal rejected by the British Parliament while it was approving the creation of human-animal hybrids (chimera: monsters and illusions) since predicted shortages of embryonic stem cells have proved to be verified.

The baby deserved another chance at life? what the hell is wrong with society these days? of course the baby deserves a chance at life! that baby probably deserves to live more than the parents that tried to kill it. I mean what is the kid going to think of his parents when he finds out that his parents tried to kill him? even if he was just conceived all that is necessary for human life is still there thus making him a living human being. a seed and a full grown tree are essentially the same thing even though they are just different stages of the tree’s life and they have differnet names. abortion is outright murder. people are so selfish with their lives and so absorbed by their physical appetites that they cannot reason and their intellects are clouded. I think that people would be much smarter and would make better decisions if they were just educated in the right way. find a good school for your kids. one that makes them think and use their God-given intellect. don’t put your kids in front a tv all day so they have something to do. they will just turn out to be just like everyone else. o and by the way I hope that kid beats the shit out of his parents when he finds out they tried to kill him. they deserve it. I mean I want to go and kick their asses myself but I don’t need to worry: vengence is God’s. If anyone deserves justice, He will make sure they get it one way or another, either in this life or the next.

Someone said “easier for her to terminate early than to carry the baby to watch him die”. Well, he didn’t die, did he? Since you really don’t know if the baby is going to die or not, shouldn’t you give them the benefit of the doubt?

Plus, any parent whose child was taken early and ask them “Well, wouldn’t it have been better if you got rid of them before you ever saw them?” and I don’t think you’ll get a pleasant response.

Personally, my wife and I have been through a miscarriage and I well tell you this: we are THANKFUL for even the short period we had with our child, in or out of the womb.

PASSING through the birth canal changes NOTHING, it only allowed the short sighted to see what HAS BEEN THERE SINCE CONCEPTION!! So stop with the silly arguments, is it a human being or not?

You know, there’s a difference between judging the person and judging the deed. Judging the deed is not merely inevitable but necessary. Judging the person–not what the person does, but what their motives and heart are–is pompous, presumptuous, and ultimately JUST as much a form of playing God as some of you have said abortion is.

To the Christians on this board–yes. We are called to promote the truth, even when it is unpopular. Jesus did not shy from the truth. But before you start breaking out the bullhorns a la Jeremiah, remember that this same Jesus ate with prostitutes, the impoverished, the diseased, the tax collectors who cheated people out of their desperately needed money, and all the rest of the least of these. You are called to do THAT too. Speak the truth IN LOVE. Speak with grace. Speak with humility. And remember that what you do makes a far bigger impression than what you say. Speaking truth is easy. Living love is hard.

Many of you say this mother’s choice was selfish. I’m sure you yourselves have never been selfish, right? None of you ever nabbed the last cookie out of your sister’s hand, none of you ever were nasty to somebody that wanted to talk to you because you felt too tired, none of you ever held back from giving to someone who needed, none of you were ever self-absorbed teenagers.

The unborn children need our support, that’s true. So do their suffering mothers. I think this woman’s initial decision to abort her child was an abominable mistake. But what makes any of you think she made that choice flippantly, without heartache and deliberation? This woman was HURTING. She lost her child. How about, instead of suggesting she be put on trial for attempted murder and hoping she is crushed under a burden of guilt for the rest of her life, we Christians remember that we are ambassadors of a God who loves, heals, and restores people who did nothing to deserve it? God doesn’t want this woman to wallow in guilt for the rest of her life! How dare we begrudge her her second chance?

Don’t imagine for a moment that I condone abortion for any reason. I think it’s another word for murder. But murder isn’t the only sin someone can commit. It’s not even the worst. We fallen, sinful humans trying to seize the place of God by condemning a person–how is that any less insidious? We all of us have disobeyed the commands of God, one way or another. Judging someone else for doing the same thing–now that’s the story of the man whose enormous debt was forgiven by his king, only to go out and throw one of his fellow servants in prison for the same offense. Disgusting, isn’t it? In fact, it’s selfish, ungrateful, and arrogant too.

Another poster already referenced the story of the adulterous woman who was brought before Jesus by the religious elders of Jerusalem. “Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.” Now, there was only person there without sin, and you’ll notice that he didn’t do any rock-throwing. “For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through him might be saved.” (John 3:17) So all of you Christians out there on this board–put down those stones. Because even if you had the right to throw them, you claim to follow Jesus, and he did no such thing.

God sure works in mysterious ways!

My daughter-in-law was 42 when during her doctor’s visit, she was presented with a stack of information on the dangers of having a first baby at her age, including all the things that could go wrong with the fetus. She came home and cried for days thinking her baby might be covered by hair, mentally retarded, physically malformed, or a vegetable. She was also given information about abortion , and was told she had a limited time to make a decision. She was a nervous wreck, but turned to her friends, family and Church for support . My advice to her was that doctors make a lot of mistakes, and can not predict the future. If they could, they would be stock brokers. My grandson will graduate from high school next week, 6′5, movie star looks, an outstanding student-athlete, MVP.
He plans to use his scholarship for his studies to be a pediatrician.

ROFL THIS IS HILARIOUS

IM TEH BABY THAT WONT DIE

THEY SHOULD MAKE A MOOOVIE!!?!?

“UNDED HALF-ABORTED KIDNEE PROBLEMS BABIE”

THIS KID IS TEH ULTIMATE REBEL

“HAHA PARENTS U TRIED TO KILL ME U POOR UGLYZ, BUT IM TOO KRAFTY OF A BABIE WIV MAI CUNNING BABIE SKILLZ”

I BET JESUS HIMSELF HAS A PLAN FOR THIS KID– GROWIN UP CRAZY BC HE HAS THA WERST PARENTS EVER

Reading all these comments it’s hard to believe that a majority of Americans believe a woman should have the right to choose to end a pregnancy if she so chooses. Where are the “pro-choicers” in this thread?

Kelly, is it not selfish to let a sick child suffer because you didnt want to live with the guilt of letitng him live that kind of life?

I agree with Petersmom! What????? This so-called mom “couldn’t cope with the anguish of losing another baby.” So this “mom” thinks that abortion does not kill her baby in which she loses him too?

Wow! It is now more humane to rip, tear and suck your baby out in a brutal death rather than to give birth, hold, cuddle and love your baby for the few minutes or hours he/she gets at life and let him/her die naturally in your arms?

This proves just how screwed up the mentality and poison of the pro-choice agenda and arguments really are!

It is only by the grace of God this baby was given a chance at life! It certainly had nothing to do with his “mom.”

If it’s alright to abort an unborn child who might have an illness, to aviod personal anguish regarding that illness, shouldn’t it be alright to euthanize a ten year old child diagnosed with Leukemia, a middle aged person with Parkinson’s, or an elderly person with Alzheimer’s?

I mean, the unborn child has a presumed illness… the birthed individuals have existing, diagnosed illnesses… these people are already ill. Leukemia, Parkinson’s, and Alzheimer’s certainly cause anguish and grief for the friends and family of the ill…

It’s not that we should strive to stop abortion! We should seek instead to implement a fundamental principle (rationalization really) supported by abortion.

If all the Americans with Leukemia, Parkinson’s, and Alzheimer’s had been aborted, they
wouldn’t be around today to be ill, causing grief and anguish to their family, would they?

It’s not that we should give life the benifit of the doubt. We should instead strive to eradicate the slightest possibilty of illness and disease by destroying it prior to birth.

Wouldn’t that be a great America? Abort all unborn children who may have an illness… It all makes sense to me now! One, unified, cleansed American race!

Kinda reminds me of that German guy back in the forties…

When I was 40, my mother informed me that SHE had survived 3 different abortion attempts by my grandmother (who was no longer among the living). I thanked God that the state licensed murderers were not nearly so well trained and honed as they are today.

Keep trampling the vineyards, Lord, we deserve it all. We have earned every ounce of every drop.

Laquonda:
Are you hearing what you’re saying? How is one being selfish by allowing a child to suffer? That might be called cruel, but not selfish. Is it the child who feels guilty or the mother?

Let me ask you: if you had a choice to live a life as a disabled person who was respected and loved, or you could choose to have some giant rip & tear you to shreds within a matter of minutes while you were in excruciating pain, crying and pleading for your life–which would you choose?

Just because a child isn’t “perfect” by society’s standards doesn’t mean he or she shouldn’t be allowed to live. Do you understand my point?

I just want to say to the mother that it is not coincidence that your child made it through the abortion. Your child was spared b/c God wanted to show you that if you only believe in him, that your child can have the wonderful and healthy life you’ve always wanted your children to have. I truly believe that your child will be a true and living testimony! I declare that this child will have a full and prosperous life and he will be a witness of all of the miracles God has and will manifest in his life! God Bless!

I understand your point, but I would rather excruciating pain a suffering be for a few minutes rather than a number of years. Its selfish to allow a child to suffer to avoid feeling guilty about an abortion, but I supposed you would feel guilty anyways for allowing your child to live in pain. But I supppose you don’t have any sick children, do you? Have you ever been faced with a decision like that or are you just talking to make yourself feel good?

And to clear up any confusion, I have had an abortion. Through amniocentesis my unborn child was diagnosed with Trisomy. It’s incompatible with life. The child would have died apon birth. Now who wants to tell me I am selfish?

I was in a similar situation, but my health was the one in question.I was told my baby & I both had a chance of dying. I prayed & cried for almost 1 month before I decided that God had a plan & that I would go through with the pregnancy. My daughter is 9 years old now. I knew God would guide my decision, and if that meant we were both meant to die….. than that was his will. I’m really glad her baby made it. God’s will is strong. If he was meant to perish it would have happened. No matter if the birth was planned or not, a baby has the right to live too.I too, am against abortion. There isn’t a day that goes by that I’m glad I didn’t do that.

Against Abortion

Good God I hope Laquonda does not work in a hospital. She would be the caught for murdering her patients. Of course she’d call it “Mercy Killing”…how convenient.

Dear Laquonda,

Who of us as individuals has the right to take another’s life? Do I? Do you? Can you give another death? I am puzzled by a couple of points you raise: 1. We are animals 2. That God (I assume you are speaking of the Triune God of the Christian faith) sanctions mother’s to dispose of their sick. Where do you find either of these material facts in the Scriptures?

Secondly, let’s just look at this as a civil/human rights issue. Infants in the womb are the weakest members of our society–they cannot speak for themselves. The strong must protect the weak. The one with a voice must cry out for the voiceless.

It is inhumane to put to death a healthy or a sick child. Who among us has the wisdom to determine such things? Who among us has the right to arbitrarily decide the fate of another?

I’m afraid your reasoning is the product of naturalistic thought. Please don’t mix “survival of the fittest” (naturalism) with a Christian world view–I’m afraid you’ll just look foolish.

How come God wanted her first child to die?

When did I say that information was in the scriptures? I said it was scientific fact. Why don’t you learn to read

Years ago our daughter got pregnant while in college. She felt she would be an embarrassment to her family, church and friends, so she went to get an abortion. However, it turned out to be a Christian caring center and they reminded her that abortion was not the answer. They encouraged her that everyone cared and would love her and her child whether she got married or not. A few weeks later she married the father. Today the child is a missionary. The father and mother are still married. Their only regret is that they had premarital sex. The rest of the story is GOOD.

Scott, you are another one that cannot read. By amniocentesis, you know, the procedure in which they draw out anmniotic fluid and grow cells to look for chromosomal defects. My unborn child was diagnosed off of scientific evidence to have a condition incompatible with life. It’s called Trisomy 13. I terminated the pregnancy because i knew that child did not have a shot at life. And that is based on pur scientific fact. So I guess I am evil and going hell for murder because i made a decision based on scientific truth?

Dear Eric,

God doesn’t want anyone to die. Death is an unnatural state for man. Man was not created to die. That is why there will be a resurrection from the dead. In the cosmic battle over sin, death and Satan, God uses death to defeat His enemies. Just as Christ rose from the dead, so too all flesh shall rise on the Last Day. Death will no longer have any hold over man. Death itself will perish and be no more.

It’s amazing the baby survived, and certainly there’s an element of destiny to it in my mind. I only hate that it becomes yet another rallying point for the Pro-Life community. I believe abortion is murder, and I believe that even a fetus has a soul, but these are my personal beliefs. It is not something that can be proved! It’s all about faith. We should leave those choices to the individual. We are far past the era where a sword can be held to someone’s neck and they can be asked to “Convert!” (though the favored sword in this case is a pen). Personally I’d rather let someone deal with their decision and go to a doctor than to see a return to clothes hangers and back alley operations, which is what WILL happen if these people are no longer given a choice.

Laquonda:
You say that a person with a disability is suffering. I know a few people with disabilities and I can tell you that they are not suffering. They are living their lives to the fullest, and I’ll bet not one of them would have wished they could’ve suffered a cruel death like the one an aborted child does. Just because someone has a disability does not mean they are in pain; many live very full and exciting lives. And lastly, my statements have nothing to do with “making myself feel good.” I say what I do in the hopes that some may see the err of abortion and consider giving the one with no choice a voice.

Tried to kill her baby but the kid refused to die so he should have a “second
chance” to live. How freakin’ SICK can you get???????

Laquonda, I would like to know where you found doctors that were 100% sure of your diagnosis. Why? Because from what I know, doctors can be wrong and it is not that rare for them to be wrong. Also, as a former lab technician, I know of lab mix ups and errors that could happen. My point is, there is no way you could know 100% that your baby was trisomal, even with tests.

If you think I am wrong, just ask around and see how many people have been given dire prognosis prior to giving birth and then to turn around and give birth to a perfectly healthy child.

Thank god they had faith in something other than man and doctors, who after all are human and make mistakes.

Yes we are mammals. And your point is?
As someone who believes in God, we are different. It is technically true we are made of the same chemicals in fact, it is only a few % points that the DNA structure differentiates us from different “species”. Lets go a step further, we in fact are composed of the same minerals as found in the very ground you are standing on. And we are not dirt. It is the faith in there being God that really sets off the difference. Without faith, then those left without the hope of a creator God indeed are animals.
Now regards to this case of abortion, the death caused to another human being. Only animals have the lack of capacity to treat there offspring in the womb as physical items. I chose to believe that we indeed are special. Though very flawed, we have to capacity ot reasoning wrong vs right. And I am for human rights, especially in the case of the human unborn.
I do believe this woman holding the very life that was to be terminated, surely looks at life as being more precious .

Doctor’s have been wrong countless times. There have been pregnancies said to be deformed or lethal or .., and surprised by a healthy baby boy or girl. Some doctors are just neglectful or inept. The rest , are mistaken because they are not God. And I am NOT condemning doctors.

I saw the picture of the baby. He looks like something is wrong…the eyes…very wide and whites showing. No smile. Too bad this happened.

Laquonda – I am so sorry for your loss

PS – killing of ‘unwanteds’ has gone on before and will continue. It is a sad state of affairs.

3-June-2008 — Catholic News Agency

Belgium Proposal: Euthanasia for Children and Persons with Dementia
Madrid, Jun 2, 2008 (CNA).-
The Liberal Party in Belgium has put forth a measure that would expand the country’s euthanasia law passed in 2002 to allow it to be applied to children and persons with dementia.

The Spanish online daily Hoy reported that current law in Belgium permits euthanasia “only for adults and in specific circumstances: terminal pathologies or illnesses that cause severe pain or suffering. Belgium was the second country in Europe behind Holland to approve the practice.”

Now liberal lawmakers are repeating an effort made in 2004 to allow for euthanasia for “persons with diminished brain activity due to dementia or to accidents, although such persons must express their desire in writing.”

The law would also force doctors who refuse to apply euthanasia to refer patients to others who will, and they must allow the patients to carry out the act themselves if they so wish.

Liberal Senator Jean-Jacques de Gucht is the sponsor of the measure and says his proposals may receive the support of other parties, even though the same strategy failed in 2004.

What a testament to the human spirit’s will to survive! Every life is precious to God and I’m so thankful this little fella survived and will hopefully have a long and healthy life.

I’d be suing the doctor for malpractice.

What an article to put in a kid’s baby box:

“We tried to kill you, we really did, and we were pissed that you survived.”

“We were going to have another go at you, but realized you might not be as inconvenient to us as we originally thought.”

“So then we decided that because you wouldn’t be such a nuisance you deserved another shot at life.”

“Happy birthday! Just don’t make us unhappy and you’ll have many more.”

Abortion has to be one of the most immoral things ever to exist. I got my girlfriend pregnant at 16 years old but i didnt act like a little punk and take the easy way out. I took responsibility for my actions and worked my a$$ off to provide for my child and i abhor people who say they cant take on the responsibility of a child what absolute bull. Good for this kid. Just imagine all the great leaders, ceo’s, and world changers that may have been aborted in the last 40 years. Ne way maybe abortion is a good thing, liberals may eventually exterminate themselves and the world can get back to having respect for things like life.

‘…The danger is that the failed attempt can damage the baby. …’
So abortion does not damage the baby?!

What kind of person aborts their baby just to spare themselves? She didn’t think she could handle losing another baby so she decides to kill it instead. That’s a wise choice. Perhaps she should have her children taken away and a hysterectomy then she won’t have to deal with those kinds of problems.

God bless this mom for continuing to carry her child, even though she feared the worst. God Bless this child. My daughter was unmarried and didn’t know she was pregnant until she was 5 months along. I thank God everyday for this precious grandbaby and that she did not abort her child. He is now a very healthy one year old and such a blessing in our life!

I don’t understand why this gal gets to keep the Baby. Sounds to me that she mentally checked out on this baby and decided that it’s quality of life wasn’t worth living. So what if some Doctor told her that the baby was going to possibly have problems? Some Md’s opinion overule a mother’s love?…..Does that become a free pass to kill the baby?…..The world is becomming like Sparta, where if the baby isn’t societies ideal of a “Normal” child just throw it over a cliff…or the more modern version and abort it.

I wonder when this baby grow into adulthood, if this child turn on mom and attempts to kill her, if he will get a free pass at murder and be happily reunited with mom. Quid Pro Quo.

This couple does not deserve to take the child home! Actually maybe she needs to be put to death after the child is born because someday when she is 70 or 80 she might get cancer or some other illness that will cause her pain. Lets do the just thing and kill her now so she doesn’t suffer. That should make us feel really good about ourselves….WOW does that sound like a Liberal or what???

Have you ever noticed that all this weird stuff happens in England?

Loquonda I do feel you were wrong. I was a child who was supposed to die as soon as I was born but now I am perfectly healthy and have three children of my own. One of my children is sick. He has to take medicine everyday for the rest of his life otherwise he could die. So should I have killed him as soon as I found out? It is not quite the same as something that would absolutely kill him, but why not give the child a chance? You never know, the prognosis could have been wrong, which means you killed your child for no reason.

God must have an amazing plan for this baby boy! Praise God he survived.

The mother should be tried for attempted murder.

DEAR AUDRY:

This was your quote…

“Wow, This site is bombarded with militant rabid Jesus incarnates who enthusiastically dish out judgement and hatred to this anguished couple and anyone else who has another viewpoint. (’Their opionions are wrong, I have the TRUTH’ – do you see why you people are so freakin’ annoying??) Enough Simone bashing, please! She may have made statements that made you angry but come on! Saying that ‘those parents should have their kid taken away’ , ‘that woman is so selfish’, ‘why aren’t they MARRIED’….what is WITH you people? Get off your jewel encrusted thrones!”

Like a typical liberal you’re thinking about people being outraged at how a mother could SLAUGHTER her baby is being MEAN to the mom. WOW!

You suffer from moral relativism… because you believe something to be true, it must be by virtue of the fact that you believe it. Look at the tenor of your comments… you are another sad, angry liberal who stands for nothing so you fall for anything.

You want to talk truth? Go look at the incorruptible remains of Saint Padre Pio on the internet? How does someone die 40 years ago and have their body be completely intact? Could it be he followed GOD’s laws and was faithful to Holy Scripture, which you so vituperatively put down.

As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord, and spend the rest of eternity with him in absolute paradise while the moral relativists will suffer eternal damnation. The sad thing is Heaven is for everyone, because God’s Mercy is infinite. You just need to put your pride away for a second and admit you are a wretched sinner, I do. I’ll tell you right now that I am a sinner. The only virtue absolutely necessary for heaven is humility, which I can tell by your posts, you are lacking.

To sin is human…to remain in sin is demonic.

By the way, I told you I would pray for you and I did. I will continue to pray that you be shown the Truth (there is objective Truth… God).

Steve

Who could kill their own flesh and blood? That’s sick.

Laquonda is trying to justify her own abortion by playing semantics and lying to herself. I can assure you, there will be no lying to God come judgment day.

I’m heartened to see all the pro-life comments regarding the despicable act these parents perpetrated on their child. Just because the baby lived doesn’t mean they are not guilty of the crime.

I’m a little confused, however, that several individuals haven’t thought out what it means to be truly pro-life. You can not take the pill, use a condom, spermicide, or any other form of contraception, including coitus interuptus and call yourself pro-life. Contraception FEEDS abortions. The Supreme Court opinion in Roe V. Wade even indicated because Americans have become so dependent on birth control, abortion has to be available in case it fails. I know, I know, now there’s some real heavy thinkin’ for ya.

But in reality, that is exactly what contraception does. It creates an anti-life mindset, people get pregnant “by accident”. I haven’t quite figured that one out yet, but then, since they didn’t want to have a child anyway, in our perverted culture, they use abortion to take care of their “dilemma.”

It is very sad. My wife and I used to contracept, until we saw the light and saw that a person can not play God either in the beginning or the end. Besides, the pill creates abortions many times by preventing the baby from attaching to the uterine wall, so some of the people posting here have probably aborted their own children and don’t even know it.

I come from a family of 10 children. My mother always said she took the children God gave her, because she promised God a long time ago she would take the children people were aborting and contracepting.

I myself have 4 beautiful children, and I’m still young. My wife and I would love to have as many children as God chooses to give us. I’m not tooting my own horn, because there is a lot of people out there doing the same thing, but THAT IS PRO-LIFE.

Also, we can not kill people through the death penalty either. Every life is precious to God, and yes I know some people deserve to die, God doesn’t want them to. They may turn their life over to Him and eventually be saved.

There is objective Truth. Not everyone has their own Truth, then Truth by definition would fail to exist. ABORTION IS WRONG EVERY TIME, NO MATTER WHAT. Even those babies who, without a scientific doubt have some horrible congenital birth defect, like Trisomy, God has a plan for their lives. Many people are now CHOOSING to give birth to their babies, as they should, even with these birth defects, because these children’s lives are short, but they are precious and we can not play God. Abortion is selfish, abortion is murder, abortion is evil. Being truly pro-life means allowing God to give you the gift of a child. He will take care of you, He will not abandon you. Even if you are pulling your hair out because the kids are driving you crazy, you will be happy you chose life, in this life, and in the next.

God is good…this little baby is very special…and I am confident through the Grace of God he will proclaim how miraculous birth…An Abundance of God’s blessing on all…I am sure he will be so loved….

To Jo:
Your sick in the head for thinking it is okay to kill a baby just to spare yourself any emotional pain. Go find and read Ronald Reagan’s essay on abortion. It will change the way you think about abortion.

God has plainly said, “Thou shalt not kill.” One can argue all day long that God didn’t mean that, but it won’t change the fact that He did, and still does. And by the way, that Commandment means “Thou shalt not take innocent life”. It has no bearing on the death penalty. That is another and completely different matter.

Tim,

“Thou Shalt not kill” means exactly that. Don’t kill. There have been plenty of innocent people who have been falsely imprisoned and executed. If you follow the commandments, that wouldn’t happen. You can’t argue that pro-choice people should say killing is relative, then go and say the same thing yourself.

As for this case, I am pro choice, only because we know that unwanted pregnancies have always existed and always will. Women will attempt abortion, so we might as well make it civilised so the mother does not die as well. But to say that abortion is anything other than killing is simply not true. Pro choice people have to face up to this fact. To imply that abortion is not killing, that the fetus is not really a person negates the experience of every woman who mourns a child lost through miscarriage.

And by the way, what are you Pro choice people doing about promoting birth control, sex education, and comforting people who have lost children to miscarriage? What are you doing about child poverty? If you talk the talk, remember to walk the walk.

What a sick society we have become. That human beings can dispose of babies just because they think they have maladies. We have replaced God with one of our own making. I hope that the baby to be born becomes an advocate for all those babies whose lives have been snuffed out by the selfish whims of their wicked parents.

Wow, they decided to give him a second chance after they learned they failed to kill him the first time. How noble of them.

Judging by the overwhelming response in favor of the baby surviving, I wonder if the number of
pro-abortionists in this country is vastly overstated. We need to end abortions. I sincerely believe that God is judging our “civilization” for its acts. We have replaced God in deciding who lives or dies.

My best friend’s wife is pregnant with a child that will most certainly die soon after birth because he/she has trisomy-13, but they are holding-out hope and doing everything they can to have the child. I wish the masses of their friends and family who are encouraging them to abort would read this story. It boggles my mind how we as humans can justify abortion! I have done many bad things in my life and will certainly have to plead my case to God when I die, but I really weep for all of those misguided, ignorant, selfish people in the pro-choice camp. And, I encourage all of us on the pro-life side to put our money where our mouths are and speak-up confidently and proudly on this issue at all times and at all costs and also provide guidance and help to all those who are considering this horrible ‘choice’!

ok i see all the hub-bub about the abortion, and the oh how great God must have something planned for this baby(which may be true) but also we have to be on the watch for the anti-christ

Robinsnest, excellent. Those who get on their hi horses about “what would Jesus do” and not judging have no idea who Jesus Christ really is.

JAS, read Robinsnest again. No one said that they are without sin. God says “Thou shalt not kill,” meaning, thou shalt do no murder. Whether you “feel good about that or not,” that’s what He said.

Well, there used to be such a thing as compassion. Not too many people have that now days. First of all, we have totally gotten away from the family. first you meet, date,fall in love, get MARRIED, THEN you have children! Somehow these people have gotten it backwards in this day & time.( for just like in the days of Noah they were drinking & marrying & being given in marrage) The day of the LORD’s coming is fast approaching. When did you ever stop & think… I’m going to loose my baby anyway, but by the GRACE of GOD I will do my best to keep him & make his days/ hours/ mins. on this earth as full of love as I can possibly make them. instead….I can’t bare to see my baby die, but I can bare to KILL him??? Does something seem wrong here to anyone else but ME? The whole world has gone to hell in a hand basket. Kids killing kids! Mothers murdering their children, & Yes! IT’s murder! We are keeping convicted killers & all kinds of convicts in prison that the LORD said we should put to death. BUT if we put them to death that kill in the most horrible ways there are to die ( abortion is in there too) we are being inhumane to them? Somewhere people our values are not what they need to be.

Repent for your salvation draws neigh! Fall on your knees oh Babylon, Cry out to the LORD

i came across this story on air 1 christian radio….it interested me so i cliked on it.. as a believer in christ i understand the comments of other christians that abortion is WRONG, i also understand the circumstance that this couple was in they felt this was the best thing to do.. people that dont know God go on thier on understanding and dont look to God for direction as in this case abortion… but i serve a mighty god who is merciful,wise, powerful, compassionate i could go on forever. God has the last say so in everything the Lord says in isaiah 44:2 I am your creator. you were in my care even before you were born. we have to remember who healed the blind man, who created the earth we walk on and everything in it. it was jesus that told lazarus to walk out of the tomb after he had been dead for 4 days. God wanted somthing different, God is a god of life not death. for you created my intermost being you knit me together in my mothers womb i praise you becuase i am fearfully and wonderfully made your works are wonderful i know that full well my frame was not hidden from you ……. your eyes saw my unformed body All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be
psalms 139:13-16

amazing how drudge links to this via the faux-news site (you know the whole drudge-politio-breitbart-foxnews right wing echo chamber…)

and all the right-wing religious jobs start popping out talking about how ‘god has a plan for this boy’.

just amazing how the right wing operates and thinks.

she thought the baby deserved another chance? a life is a life. we cannot play God and decide that a baby that is an inconvenience should be killed. if you don’t want a baby, absence is the only way to go. don’t murder a child because you have a fear that the baby might have a disease or might be ill in some form. don’t you think this is taking a step backwards? no matter the circumstance after birth, if you take someone’s life young or old, it is murder, but as long as it is in the womb it’s ok? we are all about the earth and saving trees and i am all for that, but when did we decide to SAVE THE TREES AND KILL THE CHILDREN???

Amen.
Jesus Christ is Lord!
May this baby have a blessed life and lift up all those he meets with his story!

Amen.
Jesus Christ is Lord!
God bless this child and may he have a wonderful life!

Does it matter if we know the child will suffer? Why do some assume that it is better to die than to suffer? Suffering is valuable. Difficult, of course, but valuable.

God Bless this family.

I just have to say what happened is nothing short of miraculous.

abortion is always the wrong choice, haveing one kidneyis no big deal! or even haveing two bad ones. with todays science the treatment all ailments
gets better almost every day.

While I agree that the baby should not have been aborted, it is ludicrous to think that anyone (God) saved the kid.

I guess God went out of his way to save this kid, but was sleeping on the day when 200,000+ people lost their lives in the Burmese cyclone, huh?

I thought when an abortion is performed, it is performed on a ‘fetus’. The fetus survives, and suddenly, it’s a ‘baby’. How curious. Could it be that a fetus and an unborn baby are one and the same? What a revelation!

Good thing it was not in Illinois – good Barack does not want doctors to take any action to help a fetus that survives an abortion

I am the survivor of an abortion had at six weeks. At least this little person looks so loved and wanted now.

Steve…
Your comments about being truly pro-life are absolutely absurd. I’m sorry, but there’s no other way to say it. The purpose of contraception is to prevent the sperm from reaching the egg…so that a pregnancy is avoided. So pretty much you’re saying that every person on the planet who has sex with protection is not pro-life. That’s ridiculous, I can’t begin to tell you how ridiculous your thinking is. If I’m getting it right, that is. Next, will you say that as soon as sperm leaves a man’s body, it’s a baby? What about the sperm inside a man’s body? Is that a baby? Do you see where I’m going with this? The definition of being pro-life is someone who is opposed to abortion. I am very much opposed. And in order to have an abortion, you must first have a baby.

I am amazed at the different types of responses that come from stories like this. The thing that upsets me most about this is all the “casting judgments” responses. I know that we are emotional and driven in the fight for life and I pray some day the pro-life movement will succeed, by changing our culture into one that respects all life, not by passing more laws. However, yelling “HOW COULD YOU?!?” or “Abortion is Murder!” does not help. Women and families facing these situations need our prayers, love and support not judgment.
This “family” was obviously given a second chance to care for this child for a reason, I hope that they can learn from it. Not everyone understands that abortion is wrong; some people just were not taught that, perhaps this is how they will learn it. God is speaking to them, not necessarily us, but I hope all of us are listening.

We need to get one thing straight forever: The fact that I can identify right from wrong does NOT mean I’m (i) judgmental, (ii) holier than thou, (iii) or without sin.

I know that abortion is wrong.

I also know that racism, wife beating, sexism, and child abuse are wrong. Would the angry pro-abortion posters not agree with me on the latter points? Certainly, they wouldn’t say I was “judgmental” in that regard would they?

Gosh, reading this I must say you pro-life people make me sick. A bunch of self-righteous, self-proclaimed opinion leaders.

Sick.

“There is truth in this world–he is called Jesus Christ. That isn’t opinion, that’s truth.”

No, that is opinion too.

Wow… killing her child sounds like a great way to solve all of the kidney problems!
If your spouse was ill would you kill him/her, just to “get rid” of the disease?

Comment by Laquonda
June 6th, 2008 at 1:05 pm
“How is abortion any different than an animals maternal instinct to eat their sick young?… Animals eat their sick young, and this woman had a maternal instinct to destroy a child because the possibility of it inheriting that kidney condition…Perhaps in that situation, pre-term death is better than death outside the womb. At least the child wouldn’t have been given the chance to suffer.” I understand where alot of people are coming from with their anti-abortion comments. You have the right to your opinion. I’m not saying anything bad about you guys. But did you ever look at the situation as a whole?…Whether it is before or after birth, that child will be joining Our Lord and Savior in heaven. Maybe she chose to send her child to Our Lord before he was given the chance to suffer…The death in the womb would have probably been alot less painful”

Where Do I Start? We are not animals, Humans have eternal souls. Her maternal instinct had nothing to do with her decision to have her child killed, the possible suffering of the child had little to do with her decision. It all came down to HER not being able to endur watching another child die. SHE was the one that would suffer with the death of another child. So, the EASY ROUTE IS ABORTION! It infuriates me when people make BS excuses to make themselves feel better about killing an unborn child. ABORTION IS THE ULTIMATE ACT OF SELFISHNESS, MOTHERHOOD IS THE ULTIMATE ACT OF SELFLESSNESS! The woman in this story didnot want to have to go through the inconvenience of the birth, the possible death of the child, so it was EASIER to just close her eyes and let the contract killer do his work. The sad secret of abortion is that the former mother and father never have closure afterwards. At least had the baby been born and even lived only a week before passing, he/she went naturally. There would be a time of mourning, and they could cope.

But this mom, chose not to give her baby a “chance to suffer”, in doing so she also, had this abortion been successful, not given the child a chance to live, survive, overcome.

These people do not want to go through the anguish of having another child who might have a disease.
Stop having sex then okay!

Why would author of the article choose to use the term “its expected to lead a normal life. Since when do we refer to a child as “its” and not as baby girl or boy. The only reason I have is its a way to dehumanize a child to make the abortion proceedure less barbaric than it really is.

Tom

No baby is an accident or deserves to die or be killed before they have a chance to live. God doesn’t make mistake and apparently God has a purpose for Finley’s life.

There is a God! Every life has value and is a gift; every life is precious!

I can’t imagine how this child will feel when he realizes his parents tried to kill him! And the mom was concerned about losing another baby? Hmm… I think murder is slightly harder to deal with than the child dying of kidney failure. What a sick person! Maybe when this child grows up, graduates from college and leads a successful life, people will rethink their decisions to abort. There is no doubt in my mind that this baby will not make some incredible contribution to our world. This mother and family is pathetic.

Once again…God is not silent. He is concerned with the ways of man, enough to intervene and remind us all through a miracle like this that His ways are higher than our own….

I know…I am the mother of a special needs child that may test my resolve daily…yet the blessings this child has brought others is immense…..

Once again (said throughout this post)….God has a plan for all mankind….

I believe God is always ultimately in control of life. And if He allowed this miracle to happen, then He must have a big plan for baby Finley. I hope that this family knows how much they have been blessed.

So you guys know that your religion is just a story right? That your entire belief system and how you think and act is mandated by an unproven story? Those of us who realize that Christianity is a sham look at this situation as nothing more than a scientific oddity. All of you lemmings talk about Jesus, The Lord’s Coming, Christ is Risen blah blah blah blah. You forget however that plenty of us don’t care about your beliefs beyond the fact that you are entitled to them – and we relish in the fact that we are not beholden to a system that prevents us from thinking logically and being truly compassionate. Is your belief in a fake God really enough to make you criticize others and, quite frankly, appear outright nuts to those of us who laugh at you behind your backs? Are you so unable to be truly compassionate and realize this baby will now spend it’s entire life in pain and under medical care? Thank god Obama is going to win in November so people like you will no longer be in charge.

Could someone please tell me how an abortion can hurt a baby? I didn’t think it was a baby until it was born. You mean it can be a baby before it is born? I am really confused. Could someone please clear this up for me. When is it a baby and when is it a fetus (not a baby)?

To the poster who said pro-life people where hypocrites for pushing birth control all the while beleiving it is a deadly sin. I hate to break it to you, and I can’t speak for the Catholic church as I’m not Catholic, but not all Christian churches think birth control is a sin. AND, you have no concept of what birth control pills do. They prevent a pregnancy which is a heck of a lot different than terminating one that has already begun.
That said,
as long as there are heartless people out there, there will be abortion advocates
LIVE with it

Yes, surviving an abotion is not all that unusual. In 1946 my twin brother, we have since named James, was killed by an abortion procedure. It was later discovered that I was still present and alive. My mother decided that there must be a purpose for me and refused to abort again. I am now 61 and Mom passed away peacefully and born-again saveral years ago at the age of 93. Those who tell you that I could not have had an in-womb bonding with my brother have been reading too many medical journals and believed their professors too much. Comparitively, very few of the entire population have first-hand experience, and those who profess to know are speaking from theory, ideological mumbo-jumbo, or gossip. They just have NO EXPERIENCE while trying to push theory as fact. In science everything is theory……………there is no fact!
With the birth of Finley, the fact is that mankind in its infinite and educated opinion failed again and did so miserably. Those who can’t understand this may well have deserved the same fate as being blind both intellectually and psychologically. They all ought to become abortionists to make all the money they can, from the mother to the fetal tissue hawkers. Like grave robbers, they could make their “killing” before they answer for their self-centered ways. What would you all have thought if you had been born “defective” or in any other way been deemed damaged or defective by your peers? Could you have been a budding Beethoven, a Helen Keller, an Alfred Einstein? Consider how much may have been lost to humanity had you been aborted for being damaged or inferior? If there is an end-times, and I believe that there is, then when we go to our respective afterlives, I will take as many marshmallows with me…………………………………so I have something to give you to make your eternities a little less uncomfortable as I send them down to you in your flames.

its hurts and saddens me to think that this poor poor woman tried to give this fetis the death it so dearly wanted and now has to watch the child grow up in this cruel world. Any doubts about how cruel this world is, just look at the botched killing, (termination for you p.c. crowd.) what a selfish witch.

what a selfish witch.

The candidate for President of the USA selected by the Democrat Party recently voted twice to let babies die if they survive abortion. According to Barak Obama, this little child should have been set aside to die due to a lack of warmth and food. He even stated in his arguments supporting this position that an abortion survivor should not be considered a “person” even if it is breathing on its own. Is this the type of man people want to assume the most powerful position on earth? God help us all.

“comment by kelly

Steve…
Your comments about being truly pro-life are absolutely absurd. I’m sorry, but there’s no other way to say it. The purpose of contraception is to prevent the sperm from reaching the egg…so that a pregnancy is avoided. So pretty much you’re saying that every person on the planet who has sex with protection is not pro-life. That’s ridiculous, I can’t begin to tell you how ridiculous your thinking is. If I’m getting it right, that is. Next, will you say that as soon as sperm leaves a man’s body, it’s a baby? What about the sperm inside a man’s body? Is that a baby? Do you see where I’m going with this? The definition of being pro-life is someone who is opposed to abortion. I am very much opposed. And in order to have an abortion, you must first have a baby.”

ok the fact is that mankind has been around for many thousands of years and every last issue that man can come up with has already been thought through by countless people who were way smarter than any of us. I agree with steve on his understanding of what being truly pro-life really means. you should go read St. Thomas Aquinas, St. Augustine, Plato, Socrates, and look up a whole bunch of others that I can’t think of off the top of my head. anyways the point is this. Natural law states that mankind must procreate. In order to procreate we must have sex. The number one reason why man is able to have sex is for procreation, not for pleasure. Pleasure is just a secondary end. The problem is that man flips it around and puts the pleasure as the primary end for sex and not procreation. So here is where birth control comes in. Basically birth control prevents a totally natural event from taking place. This is against the natural law which God, the intelligence behind all order in the universe, created. God created order in the universe and we do not have the right to go against it. He also gave us an intellect so that we could recognize this. So, in conclusion, the ultimate end of sex is to create life, and to prevent this in any way is not being pro-life.

But I feel that the greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion, because it is a war against the child, a direct killing of the innocent child, murder by the mother herself.
And if we accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another? How do we persuade a woman not to have an abortion? As always, we must persuade her with love and we remind ourselves that love means to be willing to give until it hurts. Jesus gave even His life to love us. So, the mother who is thinking of abortion, should be helped to love, that is, to give until it hurts her plans, or her free time, to respect the life of her child. The father of that child, whoever he is, must also give until it hurts.

By abortion, the mother does not learn to love, but kills even her own child to solve her problems.

And, by abortion, the father is told that he does not have to take any responsibility at all for the child he has brought into the world. That father is likely to put other women into the same trouble. So abortion just leads to more abortion.
Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love, but to use any violence to get what they want. This is why the greatest destroyer of love and peace is abortion.

Mother Theresa

I’m 24 and an abortion survivor. I’m glad this baby boy survived. Abortion should NEVER be an option. Abortion supporters NEVER tell you the hard TRUTH about the REALity of it and they say people who care enough to speak the truth about it to one facing the decision are “dangerous” Anyways, congrats on the baby boy sdurviving. That’s a REAL miracle 4 sure!

Thank God for your baby.
Please ask other pregnant women to give their baby a chance to live. They will be happy just like you.
Love & prayers,
John & Barbara Sullivan

I hope the baby will be safe since his own mother and father have already attempted to murder him when he was at his most vulnerable state. Who ever said it was o.k. to kill your baby so that you can be spared the grief of having your child die naturally? “But you know, maybe I’m sick in the head too fo not wanting to watch a newborn die.” (Jo). Think about what you are saying, JO. No one wants to see a newborn die. That’s not what makes you sick. It’s wanting to kill a baby before they are even a newborn or anyone else that makes you sick!!
Think about it for just a second…. Look, the kid that someone is trying to murder, but failed, is now alive.. That means every baby that someone tries to abort (kill) is a precious little life regardless of how perfect or imperfect they may be. REmember, each one of us started out first from conception and then went through our developing stages until we came out of the womb. One day we will get old and end up dying, some naturally and some unnaturally. It won’t be easy but please don’t start terminating (killing) the old folks as well because you can’t stand to see an elderly person die. If you can’t make the dying patient (newborn, or any age) comfortable with all the modern meds and technology we have then please leave them alone and go somewhere else where life is perfect for you but please don’t kill them to make it easier on you!!!

I’m appalled at the nonchalance with which this report is written as though we were talking not about a human life but about clipping one’s nails or getting a haircut. The slippery slope has brought us to the very bottom. How shameful!

ABORTION WOULD NOT BE NEVER, EVER A CHOISE.
AS THE ECTOPIC’S BABY BORN IN INDIA NESTED IN THE OVARY INTEAD ON HER MOTHER’S WOMB
GOD ALWAYS WINS! AND WITH THESE MIRACLES HE IS TELLING SOMETHING TO US, ISN’T HE?
WHAT A GOOD LESSONS TO DO SOME REFLECTION ABOUT THE SUBJECT.

“Comment by Bianca
June 7th, 2008 at 8:44 am
Gosh, reading this I must say you pro-life people make me sick. A bunch of self-righteous, self-proclaimed opinion leaders. Sick.”

Our COMMENTS are sick, yet the ACTION of ripping a baby apart in the womb and sucking it out of a mothers body and into a garbage pale is NOT sick?

I’m confused because you are not making sense.

We are commenting on a very sick attitude about life and the callous way that people treat the most innocent life there is, a baby developing in the womb.

When people begin to justify playing god by deciding that THEY will choose whether or not their child lives, regardless of the reason, it is wrong. If you want to be pro-choice, then choose not to have sex and you will not have unwanted pregnancy.

So, Bianca, what part of the abortion procedure is your favorite? Since you feel that abortion is not sick, then you must think that it is perfectly OK.

I’m just asking. Bet you won’t answer.

This is a wonderful story.. although I can’t understand why this couple who seems to be “creating” children with birth defects don’t just sterilize themselves so they won’t concieve any more.

Evan, I am sad for you, sad that feel the urge to laugh at me behind my back. I am not laughing at you though. I realize that you are one of the ones that feel that you are above everyone else. You know more, you know that you are better than people that believe in God because you do not believe. You are the annointed one, the one that can look down his nose and spit upon the ones foolish enough to believe in a mere story. You have appointed yourself to be above the rest of us. I am glad that you find this throne you sit upon so comfortable as when the truth finally reveals itself to you, it may not be comfortable at all.

I am sad for you because you have not seen the beauty in God’s creations, the beauty in life.

As you get older, hopefully you will see the error in your thinking. Perhaps you will begin to see things in a more spiritual way before it is too late.

You have presented no evidence, no facts, just conjecture, that our beliefs are not real. Why do we have to prove that our beliefs are fact, yet you just have to throw a few sentences out and proclaim them as fact? You feel you can just speak it, and it is true. Well, that just makes you a hypocrite.

I have my faith, which comes from within me, not from some story. Long ago, before I truly believed, I felt the prescence of something more, the holy spirit perhaps. It was there, in the background, sometimes softly, sometimes forcibly, helping me to make the right decisions. When I finally acknowledged the feelings I was having, and letting them guide me, my life has changed many times over for the better.

I hope that some day you can have the joy of acknowledging that there is more to life than just what is here on Earth. That we all have a soul and a purpose in life, that when we die, our soul lives on. I hope that for you, and I am not laughing behind your back.

Did anyone else see the title of this story as misleading? Given that the story says,

“Dr. Manny Alvarez, managing health editor for FOXNews.com, said Percival’s situation is actually quite common.”

I don’t see how the use of “miraculously” in the title is justified.

Thank you Lord. Please use this child and this story to change the hearts and minds those who advocate and have experienced this tragic act. Father I pray that you would replace their hearts of stone with hearts of flesh. Touch their lives, convict them and give them no peace until they are broken. Bring people into their lives that can reach them and relate the beauty and joy of your love and forgiveness. Let them lay the burdens they have been carrying at your feet and experience true peace and life.

GOD has spoken….Amen!!

Kelly,

I can’t begin to tell you how ridiculous your thinking is! What is the purpose of sex? Is it purely for enjoyment? REALLY! I thought biologically that if a man and woman come together in union the natural result, if the timing is right, is that a baby will be conceived.

You are caught in the thinking of a secular world if you do not see how evil contraception is. Allow me, please, to educate you on the history of contraception.

Prior to 1932, every major Christian denomination were in agreement as to how perverted, wrong and selfish contraception was, until, the perverted ways of the world started influencing docrineless churches and then they decided to change. (Problem is, God doesn’t change. Remember in Genesis when God killed Onam for purposely spilling his seed?) Like they’ve caved on homosexuality, masturbation, pornography, and in some cases abortion. Yes, some major, mainstream churches believe that abortion is not wrong. Additionally, with the introduction of the pill in 1961, the divorce rate SKYROCKETED to over 50%. Prior to that, husbands and wives respected the natural God-given fecundity they had received, but hey, now I can cheat on my spouse without any consequences, because I’m contracepting. There is a statistically significant correlation between the introduction of the pill, divorce and abortion. It is there in black and white, if you bothered to do any research instead of trying to assuage your own conscience because you are obviously part of the problem here.

Contraception FEEDS abortion. Abortion has skyrocketed since the introduction of the pill. People who are acting like immature kids, who want to taste the fun, but not have any consequences are thumbing their noses at God. But the Just God will have the last say. I happen to be a real man who understands the purpose of marriage is: unitive AND procreative. I respect my wife, the gift of fertility, and the gift of children. Think about the term: THE PILL. We take pills to cure an illness… what is wrong with our society when we think the ability to bear children is a disease. Ask yourself that question.

There is such a thing as instructing the uniformed and admonishing the sinner. I love the judgment of those who don’t think people can call out wrongs… like we’d rather have our brothers and sisters traipsing merrily on their way to eternal suffering. That’s not love, that’s not charity. That is license, that is enabling.

Rather than putting someone down, someone who follows the one, holy, catholic and apostolic church that has been in existence since the time of Christ, and that doesn’t change because God doesn’t change, you should try checking your guilting conscience at the door, along with your ego, and start researching the Truth. For you sake and the sake of your would-be children.

Don, you said it best and I came to this board to post the same thing. Obama voted twice against a bill that would have provided for mandatory healthcare coverage for babies that survive abortions. THe man wants universal healthcare coverage for “all”, expcet for these tiny miracles. Amazing…and sad that he is so popular when people can find out his true beliefs, political views and associations.

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has also likened having a baby to being “punished” or contracting a sexually transmitted disease, but you’d never know it by watching network news.

Read it all here:
Obama is the Most Pro-Abortion Candidate Ever
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=24354

On her early September birthday a few years ago, my daughter, now age 27, kissed me and said ” Thank you for birthing me mama” . She was the fourth of the 6 children I birthed. One died as a preemie a year after Roe vs. Wade allowed mothers the choice to allow their babies to die or live. (I was offered an abortion at a clinic when I was pregnant with the little boy who died because , the kindly well meaning and misdirected clinic worker told me.”everyone is entitled to a mistake”)
I was only 20 and already had a child, and those words reverberated like a line in a bad cartoon. I knew I had a child to nurture and that no matter how bad things feel today, tomorrow is another day. I learned these values from my parents. It is my belief that we need to teach and SHOW our next generation what it means to VALUE LIFE.
Guess what? From having $10.00 in my pocket when we married to raising 5 kids everything fell into place. All 5 have been college educated and are productive , sensitive, good people.
One day at a time just TRUST in God… I hope that this little boy will grow up to be forgiving and grateful and healthy… And his parents will be grateful, forgiving to themselves and others and healthy.

This proves that all babies are human. Good thing we cannot kill them after the arrive, or that could be an option. Maybe it will be an option in the future. For now, you can kill them early, or grow them up and send them to war and kill them later. It is best to be in the in between times for all babies.

Evan, I really love guys like you. Like Paul, you have the best testimonies when you come to know the Truth. Please take the time to research and prove to us that our religion is a made up story. I think you’ll be suprised at how much evidence supports it.

What a pain in the butt that one is going to be to explain. Really? You are overjoyed? Well I am glad Justice just came and bit you in the face. I wish this was a phenomenon that just would not go away. How great would it be if all aborted babies just refused to die?

1. She was on birth control pills. How many potential babies did that kill ?
2. A UK hospital is unlikely to make a basic error in such an elementary procedure.
They probably aborted the baby’s twin and are apologising for their mistake to cover for the fact.
3. What is Percival happy about ? That the baby survived or that the baby survived without kidney damage ? That saves her huge medical expenses which she is spending on their other child with kidney damage. What is the families financial situation ?
4. How many of those who shout murder will aid the family in their plight. What is the position of the State ? It is abort the baby coz” we are jolly well not gonna pay your medical bills.” Is abortion in UK legal ?If so what wrong did she commit ? If Church Law is above UK law (UK being a secular state) what is the Church doing about it other than moralizing and sermonizing ? Does the Church underwrite the medical expenses and care of such children ?
Percival made a choice and she is alone is responsible ( along with her consenting husband) on a temporal and “divine” basis. Temporally she is in the clear, “divinely”/”spiritually” who is the judge …………….?

I try listen to my two granddaughters and their friends to know what they are thinking and where they are coming from. Let’s face it. In case you haven’t noticed, it’s a rough world out there. These young people are searching for answers. And instead of giving moral advice, what many of the people with authority over these children (doctors, teachers, etc.) are telling them loud and clear is, “Do whatever is best for you.” I’ve heard that statement so many times, it makes me want to puke!
I always try to give these kids good reasons for why I believe what I believe. I do not have to be judgemental to get the point across. As a result, my “girls” understand why abortion is the wrong choice. Unless a person has strong, positive, moral guidence, they are going to get their morals from someone without any.
This woman was a victim of the world view that dominates society today. If all you hear is that “It’s legal,” and have no moral standard to fall back on, you will see abortion as an option without much thought going into it. Remember, Christ said he will judge us in the same manner as we judge others. Instead of caller this woman a murderer, pray for her to understand the true magnitude of her choice. She had a horrible decision to make because some ungodly judges said she had a choice, and it was whatever was best for her.
From the tone of the article, I would say this woman has suffered enough.

Evan has confirmed what many of us have suspected. Obama is NOT a Christian, and those that support him know this. I also noted that he thanked god (small g) for the fact that this non-Christian would be our next president.

If Obama was our president this baby would never have had a chance. Remember he voted against helping babies who survive abortions!!!!
Every baby deserves to live. We are all prof of that.

I wonder how this child will feel towards his mother when he grows up and finds that his “Mum” tried to kill him before he was born because she “thought” he would be sickly. One more reason to take a long hard look at abortion and what it has done to our society.
We now have children aged 12 carrying 9MM guns and murdering each other because the know that life means nothing because “Mum” can have the child killed even if there is nothing wrong with it. Only because she can’t keep her pants on around men.
Disgusting.

Wow. How come the article didn’t read “fetus survives abortion?” Now it’s a baby because it lived? It just shows that Pro-abortionists can rationalize the termintion of human life. If you don’t want it, it’s a bundle of lifeless, unfeeling flesh. If you want it then it becomes a living, breathing baby. Get your stories straight!

I wonder if all those pro-choicer’s will feel the same one way when the government decides keeping them alive isn’t cost efficient for their new “universal health care system” to survive. I wonder how they will feel when some court somewhere decides that their life doesn’t have value and its the court’s or some doctor’s “choice” to terminate it. I wonder how they will feel while they are laying on a stretcher somewhere waiting for the government approved, court legalized termination of their life to take place…will they be filled with terror and fear when they realize the policies they approved of when it had to do with innocent, helpless, unborn children were the same ones they were about to be made a victim of?

If the laws can be twisted to give “choice” to a woman to dispose of an unborn child, believe me they can be twisted again to accommodate anything situation that makes things more convenient for those making the laws.

My question is how long will it be before they pass a law that says that if a child is expected to have some kind of health challenge than it is legal to dispose of it after it is born…hey, what’s a couple of minutes difference between out of the womb and still in the womb…isn’t that what partial birth abortion is…remember this, everything that Hitler did was legal…he made sure the law was behind his murderous slaughter of human beings he deemed disposable…and if it could happen to then, it could happen again –

So be careful of what you are “pro” for…someone might be exercising that right on you someday.

Let’s see: The Mother? says….I was worried my baby would have a defect that might possibly cause him or her to die prematurely so I decided to kill my baby. I was angry at the doctors when they mistakenly did not kill my baby. Now I am happy they did not kill my baby because the defect wasn’t too bad after all.

The article’s writer refers to the child as “it.”

In the USA there are lawsuits for “mistaken life.”
Only a true liberal or a demented mind can understand that. Josf Mengele certainly would.

Sounds like the abortion proponent’s argument in a nutshell. They learn from their mentors.

there is a god !!

I think it’s incredibly selfish to knowingly have children with inherited defects. All of these kids have congenital kidney problems. Why didn’t this person adopt instead of producing children who will be hampered by a genetic disease all their lives? Selfish, self serving and self centred.

As for the pro-life camp? When all of the children in foster homes are adopted into loving families, when abused children aren’t sent back to their parents, and when society rises up and demands that women don’t use children as a welfare meal ticket, then maybe I’ll listen to your homilies about how every life is sacred. Here’s a tip: There are children existing in your community who are malnourished, abused and desperately needing guidance. Maybe you should concern yourself with their needs first.

She doesn’t deserve to have the baby. It should be taken away at birth.

Simone, you seem to be a bitter person.can’t you see that the majority of comments are anti abortion. That just prooves that the majority of americans would overturn RvW. The only way that became law was through the will of 5 judges.

@Rob:
“Please take the time to research and prove to us that our religion is a made up story. I think you’ll be suprised at how much evidence supports it.”

Another logic-free religious knucklehead. You’re the one claiming it’s true, therefore it’s up to you to prove your claims. All I have to do is point out that there is zero evidence supporting the existence of a divine being. You’re then free to try and persuade me otherwise. And please don’t cite this news story as evidence, because it’s not. Thanks.

If a woman doesn’t want to carry a pregnancy to term she should have the right to terminate. An 8 week embryo is not a person, just as an acorn isn’t an full grown oak tree.
Pro-lifers need to take a class or two on logic.
And yes, I can thank my mother for not aborting me, but I can also thank her for conceiving me when she did, or for marrying my dad. There is a whole line of events that could have gotten in the way of my existence, and abortion isn’t the only one.
Pro-lifers are twisted people for trying to force women into having children when they clearly are not ready to have them, and even more so for forcing a woman to have a child that will be born terminally ill.

A.) Thank God for this miracle! Surely God has great things in store for young Finley.

B.) Many of us are pro-life, but this woman, who did indeed make a terrible mistake (which Thankfully, she doesn’t have to live with), needs to be prayed for, not yelled at.

Although her attitude prior to the birth of Finley does show the terrible views that people have on life – that people should not live if they will suffer most of their lives, or that they are not really persons before they are born.

But please be respectful of people with differant opinions. I especially ask this of those who agree with me – if you believe in God and in the sanctity of human life, you don’t need to throw any cheap insults just because some people throw insults at us. Many pro-choice people ARE willing to engage in a civilized discusssion, if we show them the same curtesy, and don’t get angry. Ignore the ones who don’t.

Take this woman. She has the biggest possible arguement against abortion she could ever have sitting in her arms. If this, and the grace of God do not change her heart, do you think calling down hellfire on her will have any effect at all – on her or on those who disagree with us on this thread? If you believe someone has sinned, you need to pray for them, not watch for God to smite them, like Jonah did.

C.) To all those who wonder why, if God spared this child, does He not spare all the other people in the world who have died in tragedies/disasters/violence?

(The implication being that God either cannot really exist, or cannot be Just)

[WARNING. This is a complicated question, so my answer is really long. Jon and others' posts brought it up, however, and I think this is important]

Many of us simply do not believe that the structure of our DNA (More complex than a sophisticated computer program), the complexity observed in intelligent life and all the vast universe, could be brought about by natural, unguided processes and chance.

There is the problem with Entropy [aka, 2nd law of Thermodynamics - essentially that all systems tend toward disorder] .

Yes, I know people argue that the Sun, as a source of energy, would have enabled life on earth to evolve without violating entropy. But while the earth may have an outside energy source, the universe does not.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but according to the Big Bang Theory, a tiny particle, containing all matter now in existence, exploded and became the WHOLE universe over millions of years, right?

How does the WHOLE universe turn from a dot into galaxies and planets with highly intelligent life WITHOUT an increase in Order? (Thus violating the Second Law of Thermodynamics?)

Where’s the Outside Energy Source that imposed more order on the universe than was in that original dot?

I’m not trying to turn this whole thread into the intelligent design controversy – just to show why some of us believe Nature points to a God or First Cause.

Also, this is a completely separate question from whether or not He is a “good” God. Evil and death does absolutely nothing to prove the absence of God.

What it does show is that we humans recognize that some things are not as they should be, thus we call them “Evil”

[And who decides how things "should be?" Why do we say "good" things should happen, and "evil" things should not happen. Where did we get the idea that things are not right with the world? Painful, yes, but Evil?]

As to the question – IF God does exist, why did He only save Baby Finley, and not all the other people who have died in violence, disease, and other tragedies:

I am going to give the Bible’s perspective on this. I realize that many see this as meaningless hogwash, but it is the inspired Word of God. If I tried to come up with my own answer to the question of suffering and death, I wouldn’t be able to.

- Roman 8 says that the all of Nature was subjected to futility, and that the creation is currently in the “bondage of curruption”

That word “futility” is key. It says that there is pointless death and suffering in this world – it is corrupt – not as God made or intended it to be. It is a mistake to say that every evil thing that happens is “for the best” or is what God ordained to happen. He allowed sin and death to come through the choices of someone else, but it is not what He wanted or planned.

Romans 5 says that sin and death came into this world through one man, Adam.

The first humans sinned, or rebelled against God, and the world was thrown into the chaos and death we see today. Not because God wanted this, but because this is the natural consequence of a world where people reject the authority of God.

Not that everyone who suffers gets what they deserve – Ecclesiates 8:14

“There is something else meaningless that occurs on earth: righteous men who get what the wicked deserve, and wicked men who get what the righteous deserve. This too, I say, is meaningless.”

According to Romans 8, one day this world WILL be delivered from the “bondage of corruption”, into the “glorious liberty of the [children] of God.”

In other words, the earth and those who have faith in Jesus will be redeemed.

God will recreate the earth, as described in Revelation 21

“Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, …. And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Now the dwelling of God is with men, and he will live with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God. He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away”

Many of those who have died in tragedies and suffered in this life will be part of this new-created earth – 1 Thess. 4:16

In the meantime, God does sustain life on this planet, and, according to Matthew 5:45, blesses both evil and good people.

While He does not stop all the evil and violence and natural disasters which plague our sin-cursed planet, He chose to give one woman who made a terrible mistake a second chance to raise her son, and He gave Baby Finley another day of life.

Can you fault Him for an Act of Mercy?

Psalm 139:13-16
For You created my inmost being, You knit me together in my mother’s womb.
I praise You because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Your works are wonderful, I know that full well.
My frame was not hidden from You when I was made in the secret place.
When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, your eyes saw my unformed body.
All the days ordained for me were written in Your book before one of them came to be.

What an awesome promise to this child who was rescued by God through an oversight of trained professionals! I beg these parents, if they haven’t already, to turn to the Lord; He who is the Resurrection, the Way, the Truth, and the Life for restoration and assurance that NOTHING separates them from the love of God, if only they will turn to Him and trust Him!! True peace can only be found in Jesus. God’s thoughts are not our thoughts and His purposes will always be served! Yes, He is the God of justice, but praise Him because He is rich in mercy and grace and so willing to forgive if we truly repent and seek His face!! I know because He has done this for me and desires this for them and everyone who has sinned (that would be all of us!). Rchest blessings and peace to them and this beautiful miracle of a child in Christ!

Bravewolf –
You’ve fallen into a trap of “lazy” analysis and/or high school debate tactics. Whether an act is right or wrong cannot logically have anything to do with what supporters or detractors of the act do; the morality of the act stands on its own. Thus, abortion is either moral or immoral, regardless of the action or innaction of pro-life people.

I’ve heard a few knuckleheads say, “If you are against abortion, what are you doing to support adoption or to feed unwanted hungry babies?” That’s first year law school sucker bait. The answer is, it doesn’t matter what I do – I cannot make abortion moral by anything I do or don’t do.

It amazes me how people mind everyone’s business but their own. This woman made an informed decision with help from her doctor. She made the choice to have an abortion. It’s really not your business….so pro-lifers, stop it! Get a life of your own. The decision to have an abortion is between a woman and her doctor. In other words, it is none of your business!

Unbelievable! These parents should be hiding their faces in shame, instead of being amazed this little guy made it! And the mother….”I couldn’t believe the hospital let me down like this”. What is her problem…oh! I know! Sin!!! You know, it only takes a physical act nowadays to be considered a parent. Poor kid, and poor siblings!!!

This shows how sick English abortion doctors are. Atheism and arrogance !

I think this is proof positive that all them europeans are quitters, if it wasn’t for us they’d all be speaking German and eating Sauerkraut anyway!!!

Perhaps the abortion was successful and the surviving baby is a fraternal twin. My sisters last pregnancy was a twin pregnancy she had a miscarriage (cofirmed) but still ended up carrying her daughter to term. It was the twin that spontaneously miscarried. I feel happy the child is alive but what a legacy and how will the child feel when it is old enough to learn of the details surrounding its birth. I would say much inner healing and prayer will be needed. gg

First of all, I would like to say that I am 100% Pro Life, however, I do certainly understand the circumstances, being a mom myself, I can not imagine losing a chile. I do want to say, this proves my theory that I have always believed. ABORTION IS MURDER!!! We do not know what God’s plans are for these family’s or the child’s future. If you go to a doctor, and they detect a abnormality, sometimes people think it is the easy way to “get rid of” the problem. This is a terrific lesson to everyone that has that mindset. Pregnancies to happen to change, and what may look like a bad thing as a preliminary situation, may not be as bad, and you may have killed a healthy human being. LIFE BEGINS AT CONCEPTION!!!!! GOD SHOULD BE THE ONE TO DETERMINE LIFE AND DEATH ISSUES, NOT MAN!!!!

I think that this story just proves that God doesn’t create any mistakes and if He allows you to become pregnant than He wants that baby to live even if it is a for a very short time. God has a reason for everything that happens and who are we to say that some one’s life isn’t worth living. When people choose to kill(abort) a child they are only thinking of themselves. They are not thinking of anyone else. Praise the Lord that they didn’t decide to kill him a second time.

Does this ‘mother’ think that she is God? Who is she to determine if her son/daughter is to live or be killed? It is true that she has gone through difficult times by the premature death of her child, but this, in no way authorizes her to decide that her next baby merits to die before she gets to know him, and so would miss him less! She needs support to go through these difficult times, but this does not authorize her to kill. I feel that we are building a society that has lost the perspecive of the principles and the priorities. Let us call a spade a spade: abortion is killing the innocent and the undefensible. No more and no less.

No, she doesn’t think she’s god. She made a choice, a choice every woman is entitled to and has the right to make. Who are you to judge her or tell anyone what they can and cannot do? You have no idea what anguish they went through making that decision. It’s time these pro lifers butt out of everyone else’s business and stop forcing their views and religion on everyone. You are entitled to your opinion but because someone else differs in that opinion, it doesn’t make you right and them wrong. Terminating a pregnancy is not murder and quoting bible passages does not make it murder. Like religion, it’s a personal issue and nobody’s business but the people involved.

It’s also curious that most pro lifers are pro death penalty. Go figure.

All you people who keep bringing God into this are bogus! My God is a kind and loving God. He is also a very forgiving God. He gives each of us only what we can handle. I don’t think that he is going to love one less for choicing to abort. Here is the truth. There is NO RIGHT or WRONG it is a personnal decision between God and the mother who choses to abort. You all are not GOD so you don’t know what he is thinking!

Has anyone thought that maybe she had twins and they missed one?

I remember a woman that went through an entire pregnancy knowing that her child would not survive outside of her womb due to a heart defect. Her family and her doctors pressured her to abort, but she stood strong that she would not. Her baby girl was born and only lived 48 hours, but in that time she held her, comforted her and her baby girl died in her arms knowing that she had a mother who loved her. When this lady was asked about why she did what she did, her reply? “It was a privilege to have the opportunity to meet my daughter and hold her for that short time before she died.”

A PRIVILEGE! Children are our most precious resource. Yes, it’s a difficult time, losing a little one, but shouldn’t our adult shoulders bear the burden of the emotional pain instead of ducking the blow and allowing your unborn child to take it? And they do feel pain…..studies have proven it.

This woman will always stand tall as a hero in my mind, and one day, when she stands before God, she will have a clear conscience with no regrets and she will be reunited with her little one with no regrets.

How many women will be able to say that?

Are you a genticist, Scott? Or just a regular Medical Laboratory Technician? Do you do amniocentesis and actually grw chromosomes? And if you do, are admitting incompetance at your job? I am not talking about the Triple Screening Tests, that just show possibility, I am talking about chromosome analysis that shows the inevitable.

Ok, Steve, you really got me going on your comment. So to be pro-life, you cannot prevent life? Contraception feeds abortions? That is the most ridiculous thing I have heard in a long time. I have an IUD and my husband had a vasectomy. We have two kids and we can’t afford any more. So for me to PREVENT life rather than CREATE life that I don’t have the means to take care of, that makes me less of a person? Does it make me a murderer, Steve, that I am preventing life? Am I murdering the potential for life, is that what it is?

Scott, before I go off on you, I would like to know what kind of common grade lab tech you are. What area do you work in? Chemistry, Micro, Bloodbank maybe? If it’s anywhere other than CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS, then that is all we need to hear from you. Anything further said will only make you sound stupid.

Laquonda, I am sorry for your loss and the tough decision you had to make. It saddens me that you were faced with the choice of ending your child peacefully or watching him die. I hope you know that you will not be judged by me.

Evan, well said.

Jason, where in science does it say that eternal soul differs us as mammals, from gorillas, who are also mammals and damn near from the same genus and species? I know I didn’t learn that in any biology class that I took.

Well, so I was just scrolling through and saw some ridiculous comments, absurd comments, good comments, and yeah, just some comments from ignorant people. Did any body ever think to leave religion out of every scenario you come accross? Did anybody think that maybe religion isnt alsways that answer? If someone were to present this to me based on both Science and Religion, i would have to go with the standpoint of science, because they can prove it. I have seen so many flaws with religion as well as what everyone preaches. You’re told God would be there for you and everything and that you will get judged for abortion and that god has a plan. Where was god when that autria father locked his child in the basement and raped her till she popped out 7 kids. Where was god when that little boy dies after inhaling pool water? All the child porn and little kids getting raped? Did god want those things to happen? Was that his big plan? Oh but the next response is “Well, God gave us free will.” Well, it’s free will that give us as human being, as mammals, and homosapiens, or ANIMALS cause that is what we are, eternal soul or no eternal soul, the power to make a sound decision and the ability to take a life out of instinct. Just as Laquonda instinct told her to spare her child of suffering. Do I feel she is wrong? No. She didn’t take that baby’s chance at life, she took that baby’s chance at natural death, and therefor probably gave that FETUS, (yes all you anti-abortionists, I called it a fetus, because SCIENTIFICALLY, that is what it is) a better death.

Next crack on atheism is going to have me screaming. I am an atheist. I do not believe in god. But I would not dare rip on anyone who is cristian and catholic. More power to you for having something that makes your life whole. But DO NOT rag on anyone for not being religious. That is as wrong as the situation ya’ll are arguing on here about.

And I don’t think this woman was wrong. She made a choice with the help of her doctor, after trying other means of contraception. It’s not like she was trying to get pregnant to have an aboriton. She was preventing pregnancy and it happened anyway. So she did was was next, not only to protect her own emotions, but to keep her unborn child from suffering. It that so wrong? What if finley did die apon birth? What if that drove her over the edge. Then who is her other child going to look up to. Everyone wants to look at now, but remember for ever now, there is a future to think about. Just like all those people who spend their entire lives taking care of their mentally handicapped kids (this is not a bash, i have the utmost respect, i really do) but have you thought about who is going to care for your children when you are gone?

Personally I hate abortion. I think this mother should really get down on her knees and thank God that he didn’t allow her to kill HIS child simply because he was different. I have seven wonderful children and one is special needs with a syndrome called Smith Magenis Syndrome. Where would our lives be without these wonderful Angels from God? My son came straight from God and I can’t imagine killing him simply becuase he wasn’t “typical” or because I couldn’t handle all the hard days that come with having a special needs child. There are far more wonderful days.

I would rather have 30 minutes of something wondeful and beautiful then a life time of nothing special.

I can only pray that this young women realizes just what God gave her.

Laquonda,

My son has a very rare syndrome. He is not unhappy at all. He is always smiling and laughing. He is full of God given life and I would have missed out on so very much if I had not had him. Our son has taughtus so many wonderful things. He has taughts us that people do not always tolerate differences. Not sure why anyone would not want a son like mine but they have no idea what they are missing.

Parents with special needs children thank God everyday for their children. It is these children and adults who actually teach something. If you get to know these children you might just learn something that is far more valuable than what you could ever get from a book.

God is still in control………..

I’m just glad I don’t live in a country where others’ views of what “God” is controls the definition of “morality.”

Oh, wait…

“Do what works for you and I’ll do what works for me” can’t work. If I believe something is right (it “works” for me) and you believe the opposite, someone has to be wrong. We can’t both be right. If I am right, you are inherently wrong. I can’t say that I don’t believe in abortion for myself but it’s okay if other people do it, who am I to judge. If we don’t judge the difference between right and wrong who will determine when it is stealing or borrowing? rape or consensual sex? murder or self defense? We judge people all the time. I don’t know why abortion should be any different.

Let’s take God out of the equation, although I don’t know how you can when you’re deciding issues of morality. In many other countries in the world, the USA has intervened when there have been known or suspected incidences of genocide. We sing songs and put signs in our yards when a population of people in a country we couldn’t point to on a map are suffering and in need of food and supplies. We take a bird who has lost half of its beak and spend thousands of dollars to create a prosthetic beak (where does that make sense?). Yet, we take the creation of human life and destroy it. Since Roe v. Wade in 1973 we have killed over 48 million Americans. That is a huge portion of that generation. Would we tolerate such genocide in any other country? We would be boycotting or intervening in any country tolerating such actions on their population.

Let’s put God back into the equation, because for those of you who are atheist, I would rather be in my shoes and be wrong than be in yours and find out too late that you are just a little too determined not to believe.

Life most certainly starts at conception. A soul is known by God before that. God has plans for your life before you are made in your mother’s womb. Right and wrong, immoral and moral, as stated in the Bible, includes murder and killing an unborn child is murder.

All that said, I am thrilled for this child of God that has survived. This mother has had a second chance to be blessed by this child and hopefully this has opened her eyes and has given her the opportunity to counsel others who may be experiencing a similar circumstance. God does work in mysterious ways!

you guys cant tell someone to populate. the world is getting so bad. 20 years from now whats going to happen? if the world lasts much longer.

Renee wrote “Life most certainly starts at conception. A soul is known by God before that. God has plans for your life before you are made in your mother’s womb.”

How do you know this Renee? Because your religion teaches you that? What makes your religion right and other religions wrong? The medical profession and scientists say life begins when a fetus is viable outside the womb. Are you saying you’re right and these educated individuals that deal with life and death on a daily basis don’t know what they’re talking about? Are you suggesting that laws be enacted based on your religion and all others should be ignored?

I’am happy that baby Finly made it, God intended for him to live. Humans think they have an answer for everything, if only we would acknowledge God before we make decsions. We are the creation not the Creator, can we truly decide who lives or dies because of imperfection. God created us, he knows us in our mothers womb, so if there is health issues ask God to heal, restore, and make whole. God’s Holy Spirit will guide us through. Baby Finly was surely intended to be here on earth at a time as such as this, he has a mission to do for God.

Did debi not read my comment? I clearly stated that if I believe I am right (which I am) others must be wrong. Jesus Christ cannot be God’s son and the Savior of those who choose him, as defined in Christianity AND just a prophet, as defined in the Muslim religion. Someone has to be wrong. We can’t all have our way. My God is not big buddies with their God (who tells them to kill Christians). There is only one God. All you have to do is believe in the saving power of Jesus and through the grace of God you will be with him in eternity. Really not that hard. And as I said before, if those of you who choose not to believe are wrong, it will be too late once you are dead. If I am wrong, I will still just be dead. But I am not wrong and the living benefits of a life with a relationship with Christ is far better than a life lived on your own.

Enough preaching. What makes a doctor or professor any better and deciding if abortion is the right thing to do. If you have a child in a mother’s womb and you leave it there, is it not alive? If you take it out, it is not dead? So you’ve killed it. That pretty much says it all. Doesn’t matter whether it can maintain life on its own. It was alive and then it’s dead. Classic definition of killing something. Just because someone has letters behind their name doesn’t make them any better at taking a pulse.

This mom is a moron. Please take the kid away. If I ever found out that my mother wanted me dead, I would legaly leave.

Renee, yours is not the only religion and yours cannot be deemed the right religion. Jews are one of the most religious groups on earth. Their beliefs are not wrong. How do you prove that Jesus is the son of God? You can’t. No more than you can prove God exists. You can believe he/she exists but you cannot prove it. Just because a book that you follow, that was written by men, says so, it doesn’t mean it’s so. You can choose to believe it and live your life through its teachings but that doesn’t make it correct or make anyone else’s book that they follow or learn from, wrong. It’s very narrow minded to think there is only one religion that is the only true religion. There is a whole world out there of loving people that follow the teachings of their book. Are you denouncing all of them?

The doctors don’t decide on an individual having an abortion, the individual decides. They may make a recommendation because the mother’s life is in jeopardy but the decision rests with the individual. What I said was that doctors, not individuals, are better able to determine when a fetus is viable outside the womb. As medical technology advances, this will happen at early and early stages of pregnancy. A blob of one day is not a child. It cannot survive outside the womb. And just because you leave it there doesn’t mean it will develop into a life. A developing life can be taken from the womb via a C section later in the development when doctors believe the life is viable. If that life does not survive, is it then murder because it was forcibly removed from the womb?

Praise God!!!