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Today one of my Facebook friends posted a heart-breaking picture of her daughter holding the body of her 20 week-old baby. She went into premature labor and the baby’s lungs weren’t developed so she only survived for a couple of hours. This young woman is mourning her child—not some mass of tissue. My two-year old son was born at 31 weeks (9 weeks premature) so this issue hits close to home for me as well.

Back in the day, I used to work in neonatal intensive care at a major research hospital.

We specialized in the care of premature babies, some in the 24 week range or younger.

Some fit in the palm of your hand with room to spare.

I can personally attest that 24 month old babies look a lot more like people than full term babies do.

We were very primitive by today's standards but we cared for 24 week and even more premature babies and almost all of them survived to grow up, most of them normally although a few had residual vision problems .

I recently met one of our all time youngest survivors and he is now grown up, graduated from a highly regarded University with honors is just about done with Med School. He plans to be a pediatrician and specialize in Neonatal care of at risk babies in under served communities to give back to the world for what he was given.

He has a wonderful wife and a new baby.

Not bad for a foetus.

Every once and while, I think back about how hard we worked to keep those little guys alive and how much we cared about each one of them.

It's hard to understand how many more perfectly healthy babies of the same gestation are so casually and cavalierly terminated via abortion.

I have to wonder how many more exceptional individuals the world has lost after 35 years of abortion.