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Hey, Barack Obaby-Killer, Some Babies Do Survive Abortions

Posted on Thursday, June 5, 2008 at 11:47AM by Registered CommenterNathan Greene | CommentsPost a Comment

By Emily Geiger

So, if this story doesn’t change some hearts and minds, I don’t know what will…

Baby Miraculously Survives Abortion, Expected to Live 'Normal' Life

A mother who decided to abort her son because he may have inherited a life-threatening kidney condition is overjoyed that he survived the procedure.

Jodie Percival of Nottinghamshire, England, said she and her fiancee made the decision to abort baby Finley when she was eight weeks pregnant.

Percival's first son Thane died of multicystic dysplastic kidneys — which causes cysts to grow on the kidneys of an unborn baby — and her second child Lewis was born with serious kidney damage and currently has just one kidney, the Daily Mail reported.

Click here for a photo of baby Finley.

"I was on the (birth control pill) when I became pregnant," Percival, 25, said. "Deciding to terminate at eight weeks was just utterly horrible but I couldn't cope with the anguish of losing another baby."

A short time after the abortion, Percival felt a fluttering in her stomach. She went to the doctor for a scan and discovered she was 19 weeks pregnant.

"I couldn't believe it,' Percival said. "This was the baby I thought I'd terminated. At first I was angry that this was happening to us, that the procedure had failed. I wrote to the hospital, I couldn't believe that they had let me down like this.

"They wrote back and apologized and said it was very rare," she added.

Dr. Manny Alvarez, managing health editor for FOXNews.com, said Percival's situation is actually quite common.

"Women that have early terminations in weeks six, seven and eight, many times the pregnancy is so small that doctors miss removing the baby," Alvarez said. "The danger is that the failed attempt can damage the baby. That is why these patients who get early terminations need follow-ups."

Another scan a week later confirmed the baby also had kidney problems, but doctors told the couple the baby was likely to survive, so they decided he deserved another chance at life.

In November, Finley was born three weeks premature. He had minor kidney damage but is expected to lead a normal life.

Here, you have a situation where the mother was told that her baby had health problems, and essentially, her doctors were wrong. This isn’t the first story I’ve heard like this.

Stories like this are also politically relevant when you consider legislation like the Born Alive Infant Protection laws that have been considered in Congress and in many state legislatures. These laws would protect babies who survived an abortion and require doctors to give them medical attention if they are born alive.

Barack Obama voted against such legislation as an Illinois state Senator. He said he just hadn’t seen any evidence that things like that actually happened (despite legislative testimony from a nurse who had witnessed “aborted” babies being born alive and doctors leaving them to die).

There are other pretty well-known examples of this. Gianna Jensen is now all grown up, but when she came into this world, it was because her biological mother had had an abortion, and she had survived.  I encourage you to read her story.

Barack, just because you don’t want to believe that things like this happen, doesn’t mean they don’t.  It just means it wasn't politically convenient for you to believe it.

If you're president someday, what else will you ignore because it's not politically convenient?  I'm guessing, probably just about anything that's important to conservatives.

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