Four Month Premature Baby Doing Well
Labels: Miracle Baby
I wrote earlier today about late term aborted babies in the UK being left to die even when born alive. Awful. Then, this story comes out about a baby born 4 months early who is thriving: Born 16 weeks premature and weighing just 1lb 4oz, Charlie Jo Glover was so tiny her hand could fit inside a ring. Put on oxygen in an incubator, she clung on to life while doctors warned her worried parents she might not survive. But now Janice Snalam, 39, and partner Michael Glover, 41, are preparing to celebrate the birthday they feared their daughter would never see...
Miss Snalam and her partner, a delivery driver, were told that Charlie Jo could die because she was so premature her lungs were not properly formed. Her parents, who have been together for ten years and have another daughter Holly, four, were also told their baby had a 50 per cent chance of being physically or mentally disabled. But after a battery of tests, she has finally been given the all-clear. Miss Snalam said: "Charlie Jo's fantastic. She's got two teeth, she's eating off a spoon and she's sitting up on her own.
posted by Wesley J. Smith @ 5:05 PM
4 Comments
4 Comments:
We are bound to have an interesting debate in the coming years, due to the tremendous advancement in ectogenesis and life-support technology.
If the day comes when aborted foetuses, at any stage of development, have an equal, or even greater chance of survival outside the womb, pro-choice advocates will have to make a moral choice that they have been able to avoid so far.
Are women's reproductive rights relegated to mere fetal extraction or do they include fetal extermination?
My guess is that they will attempt to obfuscate their positions and continue to avoid the debate entirely, all-the-while internally favoring the latter. What do you think?
You are probably right, Jimmy. I see a huge conflict brewing when the day you describe arrives. But I can also see quite clearly that with the widespread availability of various forms of birth control and sterilization, there should be little need to have abortion for routine birth control in the first place.
The overwhelming majority of pregnancy terminations now are not for the "hard cases" such as rape, incest, mother's health, etc., but simply and purely for convenience. (There is even a stigma against adopting out a baby among some people now. To them abortion is preferable to adoption, which is ironically derided as "cruel"!) That, in turn, has led directly to cheapening life in general and to many of the ethical issues that Wesley decries.
I *know* more folks who were born of rape than I know folks who had an abortion because they were raped.
I try very, very hard not to know about the folks who use abortion as birth control, because folks damage themselves too much for any kind of a sensible talk.
abortion is so wrong.
it is murder and i feel strong about that.
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