Often doctors are wrong.
My wife had all kinds of problems carrying our 2nd daughter, from constant bleeding to lack of oxygen at the end. One doctor even suggested the child could be born severely handicapped and we should consider "options." the only result was that it scared my wife.
We resolved to have faith in God's plan, and make the best whatever came. There was of course no doubt we would carry her to term.
By the way, this same "problem child" is graduating next week with a masters degree in civil engineering.
The casual matter of factness with which so many doctors recommend the murder of a human being. Many handicapped turn out to be a great joy in the life of a family, training everyone in unconditional love. “Love” in our society is so conditional, utilitarian, what do you do for me? What can you produce? What do you consume? Sick! Pagan!
God bless this family!
The fact that they have their church there to pray and support them is, IMHO, why they had the strength to ignore the medical advice they received.
Someone who doesn’t have the faith based support system they have might not make the choice they made.
My wife and i had a similar experience with a daughter. She had a single umbilical artery and other anomalies. Level 2 ultrasounds, where they measure head circumference vs arm bone lengths etc led the neonatal specialist to conclude a ‘much greater than 50% chance of severe retardation.’ As she grew, near the 7 or 8th month the doctor ‘backed off of that assessment.’ No doctor ever explicitly suggested killing her though. We wouldn’t have done it anyway.
When she was 4 she was reading on her own. Now in middle school she just got a perfect score on the state standardized math testing. She has a wicked tennis serve in spite of being only in the 1-3% size wise. She’ll be able to tolerate coach class on airlines much better than most.
A question. So we let in millions who will not work, which we have to support but a child who may need help is bad?
They discovered anomalies on an ultrasound of my daughter toward the end of my wife’s pregnancy. The doctors pressured my wife and I to get an amniocenteses to see what was wrong.
We declined saying that it wouldn’t make a difference one way or the other.
My daughter ended up being born with a genetic condition that likely would have been found on the amniocenteses.
The first weeks and months after her birth were hard to come to grips with the fact that our beloved child would have severe life long issues.
However, there is not one day that goes by where I don’t thank God for giving her to us.
She is the sweetest most loving and kind angel on the earth. I don’t know what my life would be without her.
Bastards subtly pressured us to abort our 2nd son. He’s 17 and other than driving me crazy with the teenage crap is perfectly normal. And oh yea, can’t wait to vote for Trump this November.
What a beautiful happy, smiley little face!
Given the speed at which prosthesis are improving this little girl’s life may not be much different than a kid with fully formed hands. Either way she has two loving parents which will likely prove more important in her life than those missing fingers.