I apologize for taking so long to answer your question.
My sister was in a car accident in July, 1987. She informed the ER personnel that she was pregnant but they just said she was mistaken and loaded her up with painkillers. The injuries to her neck and spine were severe and, quite frankly, she required the pain killers.
Unfortunately, she began having seizures within days because the pain medication toxicity accumulated in her baby. She said she was probably no more that 8 weeks along by this time and the pregnancy had become unviable; she had eclampsia.
Sen. Rick Santorum and his wife experienced eclampsia during one of their pregnancies. If it is late in term, medical treatment is possible in an attempt save the mother and unborn child’s lives until the baby can live outside the womb. In the Santorum’s case their son died due to involuntary abortion - a miscarriage.
My sister is built like a rock and there was no miscarriage, just a worsening of her condition. Doctors said there was no way to save either her or the baby, period, but she could not get an abortion at that hospital.
The hospital that gave her emergency care was a state-run, the Oregon Health Sciences University (OHSU) Hospital. Conservative Republicans had gained control over the state legislature and passed a law making it a crime for any state-financed hospital to perform an abortion - FOR ANY REASON.
We carried her into an abortion clinic as she was no longer able to walk.
My family members and I are Roman Catholic. This event changed our lives, and though we are solidly pro-life and donate money to organizations that provide pregnant women with options to killing their babies, we no longer believe abortion should simply be outlawed.
My nephew was born in February, 1992. He was considered to be a miracle baby, as my sister had been advised she would never have another child.
The previous year I had a positive test for uterine cancer (false) and a subsequent hysterectomy. The pregnancy was conceived about the time of my surgery.
Do you believe in miracles? I do.