Woman gives birth to healthy son after defying doctors who told her to abort 'disabled' baby

The Daily Mail (U.K.) ^ | July 23, 2007

[AnnaZ]

I had acquaintances who were told that their child would be born with Downs. They agonized, but when someone recommended a friend of their's who adopted Downs babies, they realized that if a perfect stranger could love their child, so could they.

They continued through the pregnancy (even being told at 8 months that they could still abort!), and gave birth to a perfect little girl. (The father was barely restrained at delivery time, and the doctor had to leave immediately or be badly beaten.)

A couple of years later they adopted a Downs child. Really good people.

[Stoat]

Another photo from a different paper:

Heather O'Connor with baby Jake.

Told to abort perfect baby - Health - News - Manchester Evening News

[cubreporter]

God bless this baby and his family for not aborting him. May he live a long productive life. As a Dr. perhaps who ENCOURAGES women to have and love their babies no matter what.

[sono]

God bless that 20%.

[dmz]

Scientific instruments and people who believe in scientific “consensus” are a dangerous combination.
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The deep end is at the other end of the pool.

Your comment is just a tad overstated. I’d venture that 10’s of thousands times a day, scientific instruments and the consensus of medical professionals work absolute wonders.

To mix my metaphors horribly, feel free to throw the baby out with the bath water.

[ontap]

Can you say “GLOBAL WARMING”!!!!!!!

[LadyNavyVet]

My cousin and her husband were told with 100% certainty that their son would be profoundly deformed and would die shortly after birth. They were told to have an abortion to avoid the anguish of giving birth, but couldn’t bring themselves to do it, thank God.

Today their son is a healthy college student. He was born with absolutely no defects whatsoever, and has been completely healthy his entire life.

[definitelynotaliberal]

ping

[Missouri gal]

Pregnant women are so vulnerable to fear that they can be pushed into almost anything. A certain hospital has become notorious for “browbeating” women into aborting their supposedly severely disabled children. I have a strongly pro-life friend who was almost intimidated into killing her unborn child, despite her convictions, but persevered to bear a wonderfully perfect child. When my friend couldn’t think of anything else to say to the doctor who was insisting she must abort, she said, “My husband would never allow this.” The doctor replied, “Your husband doesn’t have to know.” It really makes you wonder.

[Kaslin]

What a precious baby

[ontap]

How can a hospital be called ST. Marys and recommend an abortion.

[stevio]

Our last born, we were told he had some kind of cysts or something on his spinal cord and we “should consider taking action” because there is a good chance he will be born with staggering brain damage. He’ll be one next month and he’s a healthy, happy baby boy(Thank you Lord). That was an unnecessarily stressful time for us. Sometimes they think they know too much and we all need to trust God more.

[Stoat]

I thought that this might be of interest.

[sitetest]

Dear AnnaZ,

In our case, the stupid moron nurse-midwife misunderstood the statistics of the outcome of a pre-natal test. In her criminal stupidity, she, of course, raised the specter of “choices” that we had.

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[sbMKE]

We had an experienced ultrasound technician tell us that our son was definitely a girl and I observed him make a note about def. cleft lip.

“Misdiagnosing” gender makes for a funny anecdote, but trying to rely on fuzzy technology to determine anything and everything without any sense of moderation is simply fanatic.

[ontap]

Recommending the death penalty needs a better record than 90% obviously they were wrong, if they were wrong then they could not have been certain, and if they were not certain they should not have made the recommendation until they became certain. Your best estimated guess does not support a death sentence.

[MHGinTN]

Check to see if the hospital or clinic has a ‘tissues’ contract with a harvesting agency supplying ‘parts’ to research programs. It’s a more than a billion dollar industry now; got to have tissue sources don’tchaknow.

[fatnotlazy]

A woman I work with has four children. For all four pregnancies, the doctors predicted the baby’s gender. In all four cases they were wrong.

If the medical profession would stop treating childbirth as a disease, we might all be better off. Medicine, for all of its tests and fancy equipment, really has little understanding of the human body and how it works. And their knowledge about reproduction is probably less than 0.

[tlj18]

The mother is pretty cute herself, too.

[sitetest]

Dear MHGinTN,

I don’t think there was anything sinister going on here. Just stupidity. Just an inability to understand basic arithmetic and descriptive statistics.

We were working with a group practice of nurse-midwives. All they did was deliver babies.

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