A Praise to God

My best friend's daughter was pregnant with her first child. She was due August 24, 2010. At 22 weeks and a day, she went into labor and her amniotic fluid was leaking. Her regular OB was unable to come to the hospital right away so his associate came. He told the mom-to-be that this was not a viable pregnancy and he could give her a pill to cause her to go ahead and have the baby (in other words, ABORT the baby) who would not survive and they could try again later. She and her husband were devastated, but were determined. A nurse came in to find them very distraught and ask them what was going on. She immediately got her regular OB to come to the phone. He ordered an ultrasound and it showed that there was nothing wrong with the baby. In just a few minutes after this doctor arrived at the hospital and viewed the results of the ultrasound, the mom-to-be was on her way to a larger hospital with a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). The doctor she saw there was a god-send. He immediately went to work to stop the labor, even though her fluid was leaking there was still enough in her womb to support the baby. She laid flat of her back in that hospital for four more weeks before she when into labor a final time and the doctors could not stop it. At 26 weeks, on Tuesday, May 18th at 7:00pm the baby was delivered. He weighed a mere 2lbs 2oz and was only 13" long. He is still in the NICU, but doing well. He has a long road ahead of him, but he is going to be just fine.

I am so thankful that God intervened in this situation. I am thankful that a young, scared pregnant woman and her husband didn't follow the first doctor's advice to abort him. As I walked down the long hall of the hospital to get to the NICU to see him for the first time, I saw numerous pictures of babies born at all different stages of their mother's pregnancy, (many much earlier than my friend's daughter) who survived and thrived.

Abortion takes lives, not just blobs of tissue. Please spread the word that ABORTION IS MURDER! If you don't want a child, use some form of contraceptive. If you do find yourself pregnant and don't want the baby, please give it a chance with someone who does, instead of killing it before it is even born.