Mother Refused Cancer Treatment So Baby Could live

LifeSiteNews ^ | 1/25/08 | Thaddeus M. Baklinski

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NORFOLK, UK, January 25, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Lorraine Allard of St. Olaves, near Great Yarmouth, was told she had advanced liver cancer when she was four months pregnant with her first son.

The thirty-three year old mother of three girls was advised to abort her son, who was 23 weeks old, and begin chemotherapy right away. Rather than follow the doctor's advice, however, the courageous woman insisted on waiting long enough to give her unborn son a chance to survive, telling her husband, Martyn: "If I am going to die, my baby is going to live."

Mrs. Allard was scheduled for a caesarian delivery at 26 weeks, but went into premature labour and delivered her son, Liam, on November 18.

"He was so tiny, just 1lb 11oz, so the nurse grabbed him and allowed Lorraine to give him a little kiss before he was taken to an incubator," Mr. Allard said in a report by the Daily Mail.

"She was so emotional. She had been so determined to give him the best chance and was happy that he had been born naturally, which meant she wouldn't have to recover for a couple of weeks after a Caesarian before beginning the chemotherapy."

She began a course of chemotherapy and, although the doctors had said the cancer was no longer curable, they hoped to shrink the tumours, which they thought might give her a few more years of life. A CT scan on January 17, however, revealed the tumours were still growing. She passed away the following day.

Martyn Allard shared the last moments of his wife's earthly life with the Daily Mail reporter: "On the day Lorraine died she hadn't eaten for two weeks and couldn't drink. I laid beside her and she was gripping my hand quite tight. We were like that for about half an hour."

"I could feel against my chest that her heart was slowing down. She just slipped away after that. It was very peaceful."

"Lorraine was positive all the way through. She had strength for both of us. I can't begin to describe how brave she was. Towards the end we knew things weren't going well but she was overjoyed that she had given life to Liam."

"When Liam is old enough, I won't tell him that Lorraine gave her life for him but I will say she made sure he had a good chance of life. She told me she didn't want him to feel bad about it," Mr. Allard added.

Lorraine's funeral will take place on February 4th in the same church where she married Martyn.

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"Lorraine was positive all the way through. She had strength for both of us. I can't begin to describe how brave she was. Towards the end we knew things weren't going well but she was overjoyed that she had given life to Liam."

"When Liam is old enough, I won't tell him that Lorraine gave her life for him but I will say she made sure he had a good chance of life. She told me she didn't want him to feel bad about it," Mr. Allard added.

Godspeed to a wonderful mother!

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Just to warn everyone, this is a TEAR JERKER.

[mylife]

Brave woman

[yldstrk]

Wow!

[ASA Vet]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1959546/posts

[dbacks]

Many of today’s mom’s-to-be abort just so they can have FUN (make more babies)! Pigs.

[Jedidah]

Dallas Cowboys coach Tom Landry’s daughter, Lisa, did the same thing. Refused chemo, gave birth, died of liver cancer.

[wagglebee]

I had forgotten about Coach Landry’s daughter.

[vpintheak]

THAT is a real Mother and woman! The left and other abortion supporters take note.

[labette]

My wife once worked with a lady in the same predicament. She also chose to keep her baby knowing it would cost her life. She never regretted her "choice", either.

There are those who will pooh-pooh and ridicule such sacrifice. Pity them...They know nothing about love.

[beelzepug]

A mother’s love is an amazing thing. Really a shame that this happened to such a nice family. The husband sounds like good guy, too. He will be strong enough to get through this. God bless him.

[Kolokotronis]

Some years ago our then priest’s wife came down with cancer while pregnant. The doctors told her to abort which of course she wouldn’t do. They told her and the priest that the cancer would definitely kill her if she didn’t start treatment right away. She didn’t; it would have killed the baby. They had a fine healthy boy who is now about 18 years old...and she died of the cancer just as the docs said she would, but she died a mother.

[E. Cartman]

There are those who will pooh-pooh and ridicule such sacrifice. Pity them...They know nothing about love.

What love. What courage. When the whole world seems to be going crazy, people such as Lorraine personally demonstrate that there will, indeed, always be hope for humanity.

[ChildOfThe60s]

although the doctors had said the cancer was no longer curable

Liver cancer is not curable. The best you can do is delay it. This poor woman was doomed, and anyone that suggested she abort this baby for a "cure" was being very disingenuous.

It is instinctive for us to cling to any hope of a little more life. For this woman to voluntarily give up even the short time she had remaining is a lesson in love and humanity that should be admired by all. I am in awe of her love and courage.

[Schichtel]

Heisman Trophy Winner Tim Tebow Could Have Been a Victim of Abortion
LifeNews.com ^ | December 9, 2007 | Steven Ertelt

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.

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May The Good Lord Bless and Keep You In God We Trust Rich

[Secret Agent Man]

Wow.

[AnAmericanMother]

St. Gianna Beretta Molla will welcome this brave mother into heaven.

This is "heroic virtue."

[Hoodat]

Wow.

“These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be full. This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends.

John 15:11-13