Posted on 12/18/2011 6:45:31 AM PST by SeekAndFind
A close friend had a similar circumstance, and was told the baby would die within hours of birth. The woman refused abortion, and nearing the end of her term, her little girl did die. While she was in the hospital, family members went to be with her, and mourn the loss of her baby. This was her first baby, and she was nearing 40 years old, and mostly likely her last chance to be a natural mother. The nurses dressed the baby, and the family spent time alone with her. The mother rocked her, and talked to her. One comment she made, was, “I now know what it is like to be a mother”.
We got the testing. The test results stated that we had a higher risk for having a DS baby.
He’s due any day now.
At 38 years old, I refused the “amnio” test. OB/GYN required us to sign paperwork. WHY did I do this?
Researched info and learned that the chances of my baby having “something wrong” were almost equal to the chances of a healthy baby being aborted by the procedure.
Rachel is a beautiful, witty, intelligent, 13-year-old daughter who has brought my husband, our sons, Matthew and Jacob, and me much joy!
I just read your “about” page! THANK YOU!!! You expressed my sentiments EXACTLY - and with humor!! LOVE IT!
All the best to you, your family, and the new addition you await!!!
It makes me wonder how many women have the amnio after age... what? 35 or so and the baby is miscarried later due to the test. I am sure every time you look at your beautiful daughter... you must feel so blessed. I know that many doctors recommend the test even if the parents won’t consider abortion because of Downs... they get away with it by saying that they can prepare mentally and research Downs if the test is positive. So sad....
EXACTLY what the doctor told us!! I TOLD him, I have a cousin with Down’s Syndrome (BTW, he is now 36 years old and a delight!), so I do not need any “what-if” preparation...
They refused, had to go through genetic counseling (which was horrific for them) and the bullying continued there as well.
They now have a 10 year old girl, 7 year old boy and a 4 year old boy. ALL PERFECTLY HEALTHY! We still get SO angry when we talk about it.
I have read of many situations just like the one you described! All kinds of dire things predicted for unborn babies, only to have them be born completely healthy.
There are WAY too many stories like that. One girl I worked w/ was pregnant and they wanted her to abort because “there was too much fluid behind the head and neck” and the baby wouldn;t survive birth.
She asked the “doctor” well, how much fluid ( there is supposed to be a certain amount, the dr said there was too much).
The “doctor” said we don’t know, he’s too small for us to measure. So she said then how the hell do you know there’s too much??
Lo and behold, she had a perfectly healthy baby boy in May.
Perhaps we should start some kind of organization, or maybe there is one, of such stories.
Personally I think they are using this as a “control the population” growth method.
It’s happening way too often NOT to be something sinister.
Ping for later
The opposite of ‘planned parenthood’ is ‘unconditional love.’
That is a problem. But that problem was manufactured when the Feminazis turned abortion into a “woman’s” right to choose.
Twenty years ago I was arguing the the fact that Roe V Wade is an unconstitutional decision because it gives one group of people (women) a “constitutional right” based upon their group and thus denies that right to others based upon their group.
By their argument, everyone should have a right to “abort” what is nothing more than a “viable tissue mass.” And that means if a guy knocks a woman up, he should have the right to choose to have the child aborted.
Of course, they are both stupid and immoral arguments. The only defense a woman has in this decision is if her life is in impending jeopardy based upon the pregnancy or the continuation of the pregnancy.
Outside of that, what this article is discussing is women choosing to kill an unborn child because they or someone else deems that child “imperfect.” What’s next, aborting because of gender? Because of a club foot (easily fixed now yet women in England are aborting babies because of this)? Or because the child has Down’s Syndrome?
I don’t think the man or woman has a right to choose to abort a child based upon the probability that the child will die in X number of days. If that were a valid argument, that would justify aborting every child, because no one knows what is going to happen after delivery.
It is moss-covered rocks like this that start the slippery slope to eugenics, as demented a belief system as there ever was. If you doubt me, read G.K. Chesterton’s “Eugenics and Other Evils.” That book, with the appendix of many of the papers issued in the first half of the 20th century in support of eugenics paints that debate in the exact diabolical and evil light that it tries to hide with pretty colors.
It is no stretch to say that what he condemns as the view of National Socialism. What was the Aryan to them but the "normal", healthy and hearty human being.
A couple in my wife’s church lost twins close to full term. The babies were each wrapped in a blanket and held by the mother and members of the family including their five year old brother until they were taken away to be prepared for burial. May God’s grace forever sustain this family.
Thank you.
And my daughter, Rachel, says, “Bless you and your newborn-to-be baby!! I told her about this link...and although she has heard “the story” about her before, she is now of an age where YOUR story has meaning!! GOD BLESS!!!
And my daughter, Rachel, says, “Bless you and your newborn-to-be baby!! I told her about this link...and although she has heard “the story” about her before, she is now of an age where YOUR story has meaning!! GOD BLESS!!!
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