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In perfect health, the baby doctors said would be born deaf and blind ...and live only a few hours
Daily Mail (UK) ^ | Monday, February 25, 2008 | JO MACFARLANE

Posted on 02/25/2008 5:33:34 AM PST by Sopater

A couple who were advised to abort their baby when doctors said he had a rare brain disorder have spoken of their joy after their "miracle son" was born in perfect health.

Little Brandon Kramer was diagnosed with rhomboencephalosynapsis – a condition so rare it affects fewer than one in a million people worldwide – while he was still in the womb.

Doctors warned his mother and father that Brandon would be born deaf and blind and would probably survive only for a couple of hours.

It is believed to be the first time in Britain that the condition has been diagnosed during pregnancy – and Becky Weatherall and her partner Kriss Kramer were offered a termination up to just weeks before the birth.

But the couple defied doctors' advice and their son was born healthy on October 1 last year.

Now Brandon is teething and attempting to talk, and Kriss, 24, from Pembroke Dock, South Wales, said: "The fact that he is here now, alive and kicking, truly is a miracle."

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: abortion; moralabsolutes; prolife; universalhealthcare
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Every baby is a miracle, indeed.


1 posted on 02/25/2008 5:33:39 AM PST by Sopater
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Good for them!! God bless ‘em!


2 posted on 02/25/2008 5:38:14 AM PST by swatbuznik
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To: NYer

Ping!


3 posted on 02/25/2008 5:38:43 AM PST by redtetrahedron ("Before I formed you in the womb I knew you" - Jer 1:5 | RIP Fred'08)
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To: Sopater

coming soon with mandated government healthcare “mandated pre-natal screening and disposal of un-born children that MAY be to costly”


4 posted on 02/25/2008 5:39:42 AM PST by Billg64
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To: Sopater
"God is Awesome" ping.
5 posted on 02/25/2008 5:39:48 AM PST by Hoodat (Bull Moose Party Member)
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To: swatbuznik

Praise God for His mercy and love for us! Shows how small man’s understanding is and how great God is.


6 posted on 02/25/2008 5:39:53 AM PST by Manfred the Wonder Dawg (Test ALL things, hold to that which is True.)
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"The fact that he is here now, alive and kicking, truly is a miracle."

Not really a miracle...it's pretty obvious the doctors screwed up the diagnosis.

7 posted on 02/25/2008 5:40:40 AM PST by 6ppc (It's torch and pitchfork time)
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To: Sopater

Yes, but it’s no miracle for doctors to be wrong, especially under socialized medicine.


8 posted on 02/25/2008 5:42:42 AM PST by Christopher Lincoln
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To: Sopater

All babies are miracles but the special miracle here is his mom and dad.


9 posted on 02/25/2008 5:43:09 AM PST by CindyDawg
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"Although every care and precaution is taken to ensure the most accurate results, ultrasound is not 100 per cent accurate."

Accurate enough though, to end a baby's life.
10 posted on 02/25/2008 5:45:24 AM PST by MaryFromMichigan
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To: MaryFromMichigan

That much of a “shadow of a doubt” with DNA evidence would prevent a murderer from being executed, but this was only a “fetus” (not a human)


11 posted on 02/25/2008 5:48:06 AM PST by Billg64
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To: Sopater

Such a beautiful little one!! God bless him & keep him safe from harm.


12 posted on 02/25/2008 5:48:16 AM PST by LADY J
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To: Sopater
Here is an FR thread how Hussein supports partial birth abortions.

Why Jesus would not vote for Barack Obama

13 posted on 02/25/2008 5:49:31 AM PST by Arrowhead1952 ("It may take another Jimmy Carter to get another Ronald Reagan". Rush Limbaugh Jan. 14, 2008)
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it’s no miracle for doctors to be wrong

This is very true.
14 posted on 02/25/2008 5:50:24 AM PST by Sopater (A wise man's heart inclines him to the right, but a fool's heart to the left. ~ Ecclesiastes 10:2)
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It is believed to be the first time in Britain that the condition has been diagnosed during pregnancy –

And it was WRONG!.............

15 posted on 02/25/2008 5:53:14 AM PST by Red Badger ( We don't have science, but we do have consensus.......)
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To: Billg64
coming soon with mandated government healthcare

A frightening thought that I hadn't even yet considered. Thanks for the wake-up call.
16 posted on 02/25/2008 5:55:55 AM PST by Sopater (A wise man's heart inclines him to the right, but a fool's heart to the left. ~ Ecclesiastes 10:2)
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Has anyone noticed how whenever you see some nightmare thread about a death during childbirth (injected with Mr. Clean instead of epidural, epidural injected in arm instead of back, etc) or abortion-related nightmare, it is always in the UK, with the wonderful NHS?


17 posted on 02/25/2008 5:56:04 AM PST by montag813
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To: swatbuznik
Becky Weatherall and her partner Kriss Kramer
18 posted on 02/25/2008 5:56:39 AM PST by uptoolate (I don't fear the election - my God is there already - and bigger than them all.)
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To: Sopater

Thank God
What a beautiful baby


19 posted on 02/25/2008 5:58:45 AM PST by Fox_Mulder77 (Obama the poop filled pinata)
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To: uptoolate

Yes. Maybe they will think about getting married now,
so their baby will grow up thinking ‘my dad loved my mother enough to marry her’.

Wouldn’t that be nice?


20 posted on 02/25/2008 6:01:10 AM PST by squarebarb
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