LifeNews.Com is reporting that Doctors in Italy are furiously working to save the life of a baby boy who was born alive after he survived an abortion that should never have happened. The boy was slated to become the victim of an abortion but physicians realized they had misdiagnosed a physical deformity.
"Doctors at the teaching hospital Careggi performed two ultrasounds on the boy and his mother and they said he had a defective esophagus. That's a disorder that surgery could have corrected after birth in some cases.
"However, when they went to abort the baby boy, they discovered he was healthy and desperately tried to resuscitate him."
The UPI says "The hospital said an ultrasound scan showed only the risk of a deformity and the woman decided to have an abortion after consulting a private specialist, ANSA said."
Well there's a lot here. First, my co-host Toni Berry is always telling us that doctors make misdiagnoses and abort otherwise healthy babies. Some people of course believe that the risk of having a deformed child is worth the risk of aborting a baby that meets their expectations. That's where the culture is. God help us.
I despise the idea of aborting a child because of its physical makeup. That's bigoted and self serving. It says that people who are deformed are so lacking in dignity and such a burden that we should abort anyone who might turn out like them or that they aren't worth the effort. We don't want kids like that. If you get one, you can throw it back and put your line back in the water until you get one you want. God help us.
Second, there was no need to abort. If the child is not what you expect or want or the type made for your specifications-where'd this idea come from-there are people who adopt special needs children and there are waiting lines. Go to www.ninafuller.com and look around for these groups.
Third, cases like this offend me. I'm especially offended in this case because when I was a youth pastor, the first kid I met at one church I served in was born without an esophagus. Shawn was in the seventh or eighth grade and he had a plug in his stomach. When he was born, he was not supposed to survive 36 hours. But he did. The plug in his stomach was to enable him to receive food and nutrition. I'm not sure how long he needed that tube, but he had many surgeries to create or stretch his esophagus. By the time I met Shawn he no longer needed it. But even if he did, what kind of person judges people based on how they receive food?
Shawn became a diver. On a couple of occasions I was able to be the announcer at his meets, including the Nevada State Championships where he came in second. I later married him to his wife. Now they have two wonderful kids. Every time I hear about cases like this I think about Shawn and how his life could have been thrown away along with the beauty that he brings to our world. I hope this baby survives and lives to tell about it and softens the heart of our nation and world.
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