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Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Response to a news article about a failed abortion

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Article in black/brown. My comments in red. ------------------------------------------------------

Baby Miraculously Survives Abortion, Expected to Live 'Normal' Life

{The whole headline makes me think I am in la-la land or some bad dream where I am the only one that sees that the emperor has no clothes. Let's begin by recognizing that they use the term "baby". Apparently since the tissue mass kept on living after it's attempted murder, then it now qualified as human.
They also view this survival as a "miracle
". I am so perplexed at the use of this term here. They are attempting to kill an defenseless baby but the baby does not die like they all wanted it to. Therefore, a divine power stepped in is the conclusion they draw? We are not talking about someone surviving a car accident or a gunshot to the head. This was a willful and legal murder being carried out. Perhaps the headline writer actually knows it is wrong and is quietly cheering.
Lastly "expected to live 'normal' life" kind of struck me funny too. I must give them credit for at least putting normal in quotes. How confused will this child be as he tries to come to term with the fact that mom chose to have him killed because she thought he had a kidney disease.}

Thursday, June 05, 2008

A mother who decided to abort her son because he may have inherited a life-threatening kidney condition is overjoyed that he survived the procedure.

{The operative term in this byline is "may". Would mom be overjoyed if the baby survived but still had the condition? What is she actually overjoyed about? Does she realize she did something wrong? I will never know.}

Jodie Percival of Nottinghamshire, England, said she and her fiancee made the decision to abort baby Finley when she was eight weeks pregnant.

{Another routine mention of couples having babies before marriage. How committed can couples really be? Yet we wonder why western culture is declining.}

Percival's first son Thane died of multicystic dysplastic kidneys — which causes cysts to grow on the kidneys of an unborn baby — and her second child Lewis was born with serious kidney damage and currently has just one kidney, the Daily Mail reported.

{This is tragic and I praise God that both of my children are healthy. I cannot imagine what it must be like every time they get pregnant only to wonder if that baby will die too. But I also don't understand why they chose to kill it rather than the possibility that it will die of an inherited disease. In the UK, the moral standard has been lowered so much that abortion is kind of like getting a tooth pulled, especially if you may have inherited bad lateral incisors.}

"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."

{There is without a doubt, no question, that she was put in a position that I would not ask for my worst enemy. I am sure it is beyond horrible. But folks, that is where faith and prayer are supposed to come in. Since a foundation of faith may be missing from her life her response to losing another baby was to kill the baby... get it?}

A short time after the abortion, Percival felt a fluttering in her stomach. She went to the doctor for a scan and discovered she was 19 weeks pregnant.

"I couldn't believe it,' Percival said. "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.

{I don't even know how to relate to this. Well once I called my auto mechanic when something broke down after they 'fixed' it ...
I too was pretty bummed and I felt let down. Ya, I was angry too at first. Ugh! This is a baby she is talking about here. I wonder what she said in her letter.}

"They wrote back and apologized and said it was very rare," she added.

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

"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."

{Again the more I read this article the more I want to yell "but he has no clothes on". The doctor actually said the danger of failure can damage the baby. OK, he called it a baby first and foremost but his use of the word danger intrigues me. Isn't his goal to damage the baby so much that the baby dies?? Why does he consider it a danger that failure to kill the baby can hurt the baby??}

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.

{Awe how charitable. I hope Finley someday appreciates his parent's benevolence.}

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

{Praise God}