Posted on 12/11/2007 5:07:50 AM PST by Sopater
University of Florida quarterback Tim Tebow became the first sophomore in the history of the NCAA to win the coveted Heisman Trophy as the best football player in the nation. However, Tebow's accomplishments may never have been supported had his mother followed a doctor's recommendation to have an abortion. With 29 passing touchdowns and 22 rushing touchdowns, Tebow displayed the kind of versatility that has become more valued at the quarterback position.
Pam Tebow and her husband were Christian missionaries in the Philippines in 1985 and they prayed for "Timmy" before she became pregnant.
Unfortunately, as the Gainesville Sun reports, Pam entered into a coma after she contracted amoebic dysentery, an infection of the intestine caused by a parasite found in a contaminated food or drink.
The treatment for the medical condition would require strong medications that doctors told Pam had caused irreversible damage to Tim -- so they advised her to have an abortion.
As the Sun reported, Pam Tebow refused the abortion and cited her Christian faith as the reason for her hope that her son would be born without the devastating disabilities physicians predicted.
Pam ultimately spent the last two months of her pregnancy in bed and, eventually, gave birth to a health baby boy in August 1987.
As she told the newspaper, Pam was not surprised that her son would be up for the Heisman despite no underclassman receiving the award since its inception in 1933.
"The combination of Timmy's God-given talent, hard work, character and leadership have made a mark on and off the football field," she said.
As prominent researcher Joel Brind writes in a new LifeNews.com editorial, doctors are frequently telling women they should consider abortions when confronted with various medical situations affecting their health.
Yet, as he notes, physicians can successfully treat both mother and child without suggesting that the baby be killed to spare a mother's life.
Because Tim Tebow was spared, he's wowed a nation by his athletic skill and, at his younger age, has an opportunity to become the second person to win two Heisman awards.
LOL
Love the 3 Heismans tagline...but too blonde to understand the math!
The jersey numbers of the three UoFlorida Heisman winners: Steve Spurrier, Danny Wuerfel, and now Tim Tebow (all QBs too).
And all three are sons of preachers.
Very cool! thanks!
I didn’t know that. I thought you had come up with an equation for Timmy winnning 3 Heismans! LOL I hope he does!
WOW.
This happened to a liberal friend of mine: she had a condition, discovered at about 3 months pregnant, that would need surgery to prevent the terrible pain she’d suffer if she stayed pregnant. She chose, out of fear of the horrible pain the doctors “promised her,” to abort. She never did have the surgery because the condition resolved on its own a few weeks later and she had no more pain. Also no more baby.
Horrible what doctors do sometimes in these situations.
ping...
How many others, die needlessly in the womb? Our God is so great that He probably gave Mankind an infant capable of growing up and curing cancer and other deadly diseases.
Could it be those infants whose mothers are challenged during pregnancy are the ones with “a special gift”
Great story bump!
Thanks for posting and pinging!
Pro-Life Bump!!
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