When The Unborn Doesn't Go Quietly To His Execution, "Tiny Tim"

2-28-98 | Sharon Dunsmore, RN, Bob Edwards

[Coleus]

When The Unborn Doesn't Go Quietly To His Execution

Michael Reagan Show
2-28-98 Bob Edwards

When the Unborn Doesn't Go Quietly to His Execution

It was a relatively calm day in my hospital's Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. I and two other nurses were trying to have a conversation amid the customary sounds of ventilators and heart monitors. I was in mid-sentence when the shrill ring of the red emergency phone halted everything. "Come fast," the voice said urgently, "We need a neonatal nurse here STAT!" (that's immediately). Fear gripped my heart as I ran into the delivery room, but instantly I knew the situation was critical, and I was now prepared for what I was about to experience. "What's happened here?" I asked. "It's an oops abortion, and now it's your problem!" responded one of the nurses. For us, an 'oops abortion' meant that the fetus had survived the abortion procedure.

A pediatrician had also been called to the scene. He ran by me with the fetus, (now called a baby), in his hand and yelled in my direction. I followed him into the resuscitation room adjoining the delivery room.

I looked into the bed of the warmer as I grabbed equipment. There lay a baby boy...... a very, very tiny baby boy. The doctor and I immediately made an attempt at intubation, that is, inserting a tube down the windpipe from the mouth or nose of the infant to the tip of the lungs to try to ventilate, expand and get oxygen into them. The doctor's efforts at intubation failed. All it did was further traumatize the baby. I glanced at the doctor and hesitantly asked, "Will you attempt intubation again?'

"It would be inhumane to attempt to intubate this poor little thing again. This infant will never survive." "Well", I said, "it is my job to ask." The doctor softened, "I'm sorry, Sharon, I'm just angry. The mother doesn't want the inconvenience of a baby, so she comes to the hospital so she can pay somebody to get rid of it -- all neat and tidy. Then the whole thing gets messed up when the little one has the audacity to survive."

"And then everybody takes it seriously, and they call the pediatrician, and I'm supposed to fix it, or get rid of it." With anger in his voice, he went on, "Some lawyers will fight for the right for the mother to do whatever she wants to with her body, but watch out for what they do when abortions aren't so neat and tidy!!! A failed homicide -- oops! Then all of a sudden everybody cares, and it's turned from a 'right' into a 'liability' that someone is blamed for!"

We looked at our pathetic little patient. He was lying in the fetal position in the wrong environment, trying to get air into underdeveloped lungs that could not do the job.

In a calmed voice, the doctor said, "Okay, Nurse, I'm going back to my office. Keep him comfortable and let me know when it's over. I'm sorry about this. Call me if you need me. I know this is a hard one. If it helps, please know it is tough for me too."

I watched the doctor retreat and then glanced back at the infant before me. He was gasping for air. 'Lord, help!', I prayed. Almost instinctively, I measured the baby's vital signs. His temperature was dangerously low. I pushed the warmer settings as high as they would go. His heart rate was about 180 - 200 beats per minute. I could count the beats by watching his little chest pulsate.

I settled down a bit and began to focus on this tiny little person. He had no name, so I gave him one. Suddenly, I found myself speaking to the baby. "Tiny Tim, who are you? I'm sorry you weren't wanted. It's not your fault."

I placed my little finger in his hand, and he grasped it. As I watched him closely, I marveled that all the minute parts of a beautiful baby were present and functioning in spite of this onslaught. I touched his toes and discovered that this premature baby was ticklish! He had a long torso and long legs, and I wondered if he would have become a basketball player. Perhaps he would have been a teacher or maybe a doctor.

Emotions swept over me as I thought of my friends who had been waiting and praying for years for a baby to adopt. I spoke aloud again to this miniature baby. "They would have given you a loving and happy home. Why would people destroy you before ever considering adoption? Ignorance isn't bliss, is it, Tiny Tim?"

So little Tim put his thumb into his mouth and sucked. I hoped that gave him comfort. I said, "I'm sorry, Tim. There are people who would risk their lives for a whale or an owl, but they wouldn't even blink an eye about what is happening to you." Tiny Tim gasped, and his little chest heaved as if a truck were sitting on it. With my stethoscope, I listened to his tiny, pounding heart. It seemed easier to focus on his physiology rather than on this tiny baby's humanity.

And then he wet...and my mind took off again. Here was Tiny Tim with a whole set of kidneys, a bladder and connecting tubes that functioned with a very complex system of chemistry. His plumbing was all working! I turned the overhead light up and little Tim turned away from it. In spite of eyelids that were still fused together, he wanted to protect his precious little eyes. I thought about them. They would never see a sunset, a mother's smile or the wagging tail of a dog.

I took his temperature again. It was dropping. He was gasping for air and continued to fight for life. I stroked him gently and began to sing to him.

Another nurse walked in. "How's the mother?" I asked. "Oh she's fine. She's back in her room resting." The family said they don't want to see or hear about anything. They said, "Just take care of it." The nurse retreated with one last glance at the tiny patient. "For such a little person, he sure is putting up a big fight," she said.

So there I was with this tiny, tiny preemie who had survived an abortion. The doctor had left. The family had said, 'Just take care of it'. Sharon had found the toes ticklish, and she watched him suck his thumb. She had turned the heat lights up, and he had turned his head away from the bright light to protect his eyes. And now he was wetting...his plumbing worked too.

I looked at Tiny Tim and wondered if he knew that what he was fighting for so hard was life -- and I knew he was losing his fight. He was dying...and his family was not even interested. Their words tormented me, "Just take care of it!" No muss, no fuss.

Then Tiny Tim moved and caught hold of my little finger. I let him hang on. I did not want him to die without being touched and cared for. As I saw him struggle to breathe, I said, "It's okay, Tim. You can let go.........You can go back to God." His gasping started to slow down, but he still clung to my finger. I stroked him ever so slowly and watched him take his last breath.

"Goodbye," I whispered, "You did matter to someone."

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A few years later, the same Sharon Dunsmore became the manager of a psychiatric unit. One day, Kathy, a young, severely depressed woman, came to see Sharon following an unsuccessful suicide attempt. As Sharon interviewed her and heard her story, she told of an abortion she had received three years before and was having recurring nightmares. A baby was crying for help and kept calling her name. In her dreams, Kathy kept searching for the baby, but could never find him or her. She did not even know the sex of her baby.

As Kathy gave the name of the hospital and the names of the doctor, a disturbing realization dawned on Sharon -- Kathy was Tiny Tim's mother. But because of hospital regulations Sharon could not tell Kathy what she knew.

But time passed. Sharon was no longer a nurse or a therapist. Kathy was no longer a psychiatric patient. They ran into each other at a restaurant, where Sharon gently unfolded the story that had been hidden for so long. Tears flowed as she gave Kathy the gift of answers. Her baby had been touched and loved by a mother. He had been given a name. He didn't die alone. He was sent back to a loving God.

They held each other and wept. Sharon looked into Kathy's eyes and saw new strength and calm. There were scars, but she was beginning to heal. The nightmares were being put to rest.

Sharon still lives with the haunting impact of this experience. A CHOICE that was intended to be 'no big deal', turned out to be a very big deal for everyone.

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I was brought to tears by this story. In all my travels and experience in the Army, I have never witnessed anything like what Sharon Dunsmore did. I have seen people killed, I have seen the effects of war, and I have helped kill other human beings. It amazes me what human beings will do to each other. Still, in everything I have seen, I wonder how people can call 'Tiny Tim' just a piece of tissue, just a choice. We as a nation will answer for the infanticide that we practice. We as Christians will answer for what we have or have not done to stop this holocaust.

In Nazi Germany in the 1930's and 1940's the Christian Churches were well aware of what the Nazi's were doing to the Jews and other undesirables. In most cases the church chose to do nothing, reasoning, that they should let the state take care of earthly matters, while the church worried about saving the soul. The price for inaction, the destruction of Germany. Do not sit idly by while this country mortgages her soul through infanticide.

'Just take care of it.' How convenient to rationalize life by calling the baby 'it.' If you choose abortion, you choose stories like this! Unfortunately, we pay for our choices in life, Kathy paid a terrible price, as did Tiny Tim. But so did Sharon, the doctors, nurses and family involved. However, it is more than that, this nation is paying a price for treating our most helpless citizens as tissue. God says He knew us before we were born. He also says a man and a nation will reap what it sows.

Yours In Christ,

Bob Edwards

Sharon Dunsmore has Tiny Tim's story available in booklet form.

"Tiny Tim", PO Box 84, Smiths Creek, MI 48074-0084

Bible Reference:    Psalms - 1:1-5, Psalm 4:6, Malachi 4:16, Psalm 119:105, Proverbs 2:12-22,
                        Proverbs 4:18-27

Needs Repeating, Posted 1, 2, 3,

[Aquinasfan]

In Nazi Germany in the 1930's and 1940's...

What was it like to know that an extermination camp existed in your town?

What is it like to know that a Planned Parenthood extermination camp exists in your town?

[Aquinasfan]

This happens every day in hospitals that do abortions. They put the babies in the back rooms and just let them die.

THIS IS WHAT BARACK OBAMA VOTED TO LEGALIZE.

This is why Alan Keyes entered the race to oppose him.

[Askel5]

Yes ... Fr. White came back to do the Latin Mass and the Heralds' priest took 11.

He should be back this week, I think.

[Romulus]

they had a group of young men playing brass and percussion and processing with an immense new banner into St. Patrick's.

I was outside as they started the procession, and they did make for a brave sight on Camp Street. But the choice of music was unfortunate, with unhappy associations: the tune, composed by Handel as the anthem "See the conqu'ring hero comes" for his oratorio Judas Maccabeus, was intended by Handel as an hommage to the Duke of Cumberland, fresh from his 1746 victory over Prince Charles Edward Stuart at Culloden Moor and the savage subsequent reprisals, which extinguished hopes for a Catholic restoration in Britain.

Bonnie Prince Charlie and his son the Young Pretender James III -- "the kings over the water" -- are buried along with James's bother Cardinal Henry Stuart, at St. Peter's in Rome.

Part of me takes deep pleasure in the Heralds' appropriation of the music to honor Our Lady on her feast day, but for me it was withal a "Marseillaise" moment.

[redgolum]

We are not a Christian nation. Christian nations don't kill their next generation.

We are a post Christian nation, just waiting to see what will fill the "void in the town square".

[Askel5]

Yes, well ... ignorance is bliss, I guess.

[Askel5]

BTW ... courtesy of a conversation this piece started elsewhere, I have a trigger for a piece which may better explain to others the point I was trying to make to Tough Stough.

I'll ping you for your thoughts.

[Siobhan]

Then fight it with your last breath.

God is going to permit the erasure of cities in America because of it.

[LadyPilgrim]

It seems the horror about the break down of moral fibre in this Nation is evident in some of us.

I might add, the break-down was taking root,
in the 60's & 70's

as the hippie-flower-power

no war-pot-smoking

kerry vets against the war-

LSD taking liberal professors-

that now teach in our universities, liberal philosphy was exploding.
The attitude on the west coast, and east coast of our Country totally went nuts.

Then came the desire to take the black-hearted abortion debate of the back alleys, to the courts.

Now we have precious babies being slaughtered as if they are not human.

The debate seems to be changing, but for the little tiny babies about to be born, a "stay" from excution can't come quick enough!!!
God help our Country to realize the depth of agony the little children suffer as they are being murdered!

Lord, I pray that the people responsibile for this torture to these children, will suffer agony, because they are inflicting agony upon Your creation. I pray the terror they inflict will haunt them in the dark as they contemplate their black sin!

Lord, I thank-You and praise You, in Jesus Name!
Allow those that fight this murderous money-making atrocity, to make progress in stopping this horror!
Give them ideas, Lord and help them to find the funds to fight this blight on our Country!

Lord help these, Your little children, to know NO PAIN, to be at peace and know comfort from You, their Creator God!

Lord, I thank-You in Jesus Name

Vote BUSH/CHENEY 2004

Please forgive me freepers, I am so much in prayer for these little babies, it spills out on the keyboard.

[Christian4Bush]

blurry-eyed bump

[zip]

The death rate from continuing the pregnancy to birth is about 33 times higher than having an early abortion (under 9 weeks gestation). (cite)

How can this be true? There is a death EVERY TIME YOU MURDER A BABY BY ABORTION so the rates have to be astronomically higher when a baby is killed, errrr when a woman makes a choice to "abort" the tissue.

[firebrand]

Thanks for the ping . . . I guess. We all must pray that this baby killing ends soon.

[Budge]

Dear God, we are supposed to be human and know better.

[Coleus]

I might add, the break-down was taking root,
in the 60's & 70's >>>

It started way before that with the secular humanist movement, it just took time for the brainwashing and evil agenda too take effect.

[Coleus]

I believe that if America doesn't stop abortions, it will anger God Almighty so much because we are suppose to be a "Christian Nation", and Christians on the whole are doing nothing.

I think we already lost God's protection.

[fortunecookie]

Your name and tag says it all.

Former fetus - aren't we all?

And some of us were preemie babies. Myself at 34 wks (not so odd) and my college roommate at 31. A friend had 3 children - 2 of them born more than 2 months early. My neighbor's twins were just shy of 3 months early, one did not survive. Some of our neighbor's actually shook their heads in disbelief when they had a funeral service for her. I was shocked at their reaction. It was not lost on me, visiting these mothers and their babies in hospital that just down the hall babies just like their babies were being discarded as medical waste - or sold for 'parts'. It was positively disturbing. And one of these mothers (not the twins mother) was adamantly pro-abortion.

[AKA Elena]

I get the feeling that some FReepers would value the life of the baby above that of the mother?

This is the terible mistake of all who excuse abortion at any stage -- who are you or me or anyone to make such an equation? -- why is any adult of better or greater value than a baby? Are you some kind of prescient person who knows what that disposed of human being might have become?

GOD IS PRO-LIFE!

That is the fact and only man in his flawed and finite rationalization is the animal which chooses to abort his young!

I had a cousin with a hugely defective heart -- who chose to become pregnant even if it did cost her her life -- she had six children and survived all of the births, in fact outlived her husband, a successful business man -- and died herself just a few short years ago. Her adult children include a police officer and three brothers and two sisters, who are professional, talented and beautifully mannered and assured in all phases of society. We would have been very poor without any one of them.

May my cousin, Rita, be an emissary for me to Our Creator, so that your heart becomes softer toward the unborn -- and also, so that this equation of some assumed greater value of any adult over any child may be recognized as the feeble and specious excuse it is ... for murder!

[AKA Elena]

I remain in awe of you brilliant responses to everything that is important, Chris!

Thanks for the ping, Maeve!

[thor76]

Reading the story of Tiny Tim literally made me cry.

That abortion is outright murder, no matter what the pathetic, selfish excuse posed by the mother or family....."it would be some inconvenient to have a child".

It goes far beyond the rampant recreational use of sex - both inside & outside marriage.

Abortion is - literally - a Satanic sacrament. A priest friend called it a "sacrifice to Baal". But to refer to its satanic significance bring the point home. Abortion provides a ready supply of still living babies for occult sacrificial ceremonies. This is not vain imagination - it is literally and completely true. Such rituals, up to and including a black mass, utilise the blood and flesh of babies. And the sacrifice of a live one is of great import to their inverted worship.

This should clearly put things in perspective. ANY politician, cleric, or layman who favors abortion in any manner is protecting this hidden agenda. Some are just useful idiots.

As Fr. Malachi Martin, and others, have clearly pointed out, there are others who know exactly what they are doing when they promote/protect legal abortions. Some of these are active paricipants in inverted worship. And some of them wear Roman collars.

[TXBSAFH]

I know what you are saying all to well. I was not always as faithful as I am now and 17 years agoe I got my then girl friend pregnant. We decided to have an abortion and I paid for it. I did not think it was any big deal. I was so tragically wrong. It took a few years but when I found God I realized exactly what I have done. My child would have been born around Christmas. I have every Christmas looked at a child , on the street, in the mall and wondered if my child would have looked like that. I until recent really hated Christmas. It will tear you up inside in ways I can not even begin to express. I would give anything to be able to undo what I did. And to top it off I am now married to a wonderful woman and we are trying for a child, but are having some dificulties. We have just started to see a specialist on this and the tests are still out. I can not help but to think if I my have killed my only child. May God please forgive me.