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Mother sacrifices self for unborn baby (another saint enters heaven...)
The Washington Times ^ | 12/11/2005

Posted on 12/13/2005 7:49:21 AM PST by Rutles4Ever

A mother who found out she had cancer after becoming pregnant sacrificed her life for her unborn baby by refusing an abortion and chemotherapy, a British newspaper reported.

Devout Catholic Bernadette Mimura, known as Milai, shunned the potentially life-saving treatment because doctors told her it would kill the child, the Northern Echo regional daily reported Friday.

The 37-year-old, a native of the Philippines who lived near Stockton-on-Tees in northeast England with her British partner, Adam Taylor, survived long enough to see the birth of their son, Nathan.

But soon after seeing him baptized, she was transferred to a hospice and died about a week later.

"Being a Catholic, for her abortion was out of the question," Mr. Taylor told the newspaper. "It was a tough decision, but the decision was we could not give up on Nathan."

The boy, now 4 months old, was premature but was born fit and healthy.

Father Alan Sheridan, who performed the baptism, told Britain's domestic Press Association news agency: "Bernadette said the most important thing was the birth of her baby and she would not do anything to harm him.

"Having an abortion was never a consideration. I know she talked it over with Adam and because she was a Catholic, there was no way she would have done it.

"She had to judge which life was more important and she just prayed there would be a cure for cancer." Father Sheridan is spearheading an appeal to raise $6,490 to repatriate Mrs. Mimura's body to the Philippines for burial. Money left over will help her other three children from a first marriage.

The priest said he hoped the Manila government would help with a grant to fly the three youngsters from Britain for the ceremony.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: abortion; catholics; cultureoflife; prolife; sacrifice; unmarried; virtue
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1 posted on 12/13/2005 7:49:22 AM PST by Rutles4Ever
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To: Rutles4Ever

Good Mommy Ping... *sniff* I think I will call mine today...


2 posted on 12/13/2005 7:51:19 AM PST by YouPosting2Me
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To: Rutles4Ever

Would a lib-pro-choice-NOW type woman have made the same choice? I think not...............


3 posted on 12/13/2005 7:52:15 AM PST by Red Badger (And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him)
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To: Rutles4Ever

That's a powerful story and a courageous woman.


4 posted on 12/13/2005 7:53:27 AM PST by Barney Gumble (A liberal is someone too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel - Robert Frost)
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To: Rutles4Ever

Now that was a very generous thing to do for her child ... but if she was such a "devout Catholic," why was she living with a "partner"?


5 posted on 12/13/2005 7:54:19 AM PST by Tax-chick ("You don't HAVE to be a fat pervert to speak out about eating too much and lack of morals." ~ LG)
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To: Barney Gumble

I'm surprised authorities didn't force her to have an abortion. Good she isn't in China. Not that "pro choice" forces wouldn't like to see compulsory abortion in other nations too.


6 posted on 12/13/2005 7:55:35 AM PST by TNCMAXQ
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To: Rutles4Ever
"with her British partner, Adam Taylor"

Yeh, I'm too darn old fashioned...I noticed this...wadashame our deeds almost always affect the innocent.

7 posted on 12/13/2005 7:55:35 AM PST by litehaus
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To: Rutles4Ever

Excellent post!

Another wonderful woman made a similar choice a decade or so ago.

She's been nominated for sainthood, IIRC.


8 posted on 12/13/2005 7:56:04 AM PST by SJSAMPLE
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To: Tax-chick

And divorced.


9 posted on 12/13/2005 7:56:30 AM PST by Sir Gawain
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To: Rutles4Ever
I do not know the answer to this question, is it the policy/requirement to be pro-life for a mom in this condition to give up her life per these circumstances?
10 posted on 12/13/2005 7:56:34 AM PST by Just mythoughts
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To: Red Badger
Would a lib-pro-choice-NOW type woman have made the same choice?

Another abortion. Another notch in her belt.

11 posted on 12/13/2005 7:57:50 AM PST by Mr. Brightside
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To: SJSAMPLE
She's been nominated for sainthood, IIRC.

Nominated just for doing the right thing? That's a pretty low standard for nomination.

12 posted on 12/13/2005 7:58:04 AM PST by Sir Gawain
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To: Tax-chick
why was she living with a "partner"?

She made a very unselfish choice. Why nitpick?

13 posted on 12/13/2005 7:59:26 AM PST by Mr. Brightside
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To: Sir Gawain; Tax-chick

I was wondering the same things. She did good though; I'd say she left this world on a good note.


14 posted on 12/13/2005 8:00:16 AM PST by FourtySeven (47)
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To: Rutles4Ever; Zechariah_8_13

Amazing.

Z - in case you hadn't seen this yet.


15 posted on 12/13/2005 8:00:38 AM PST by VoiceOfBruck (Dave? Dave's not here.)
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To: Sir Gawain

When the right thing requires giving up your life for another, I'ld have to say - yes.


16 posted on 12/13/2005 8:01:13 AM PST by agere_contra
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To: Sir Gawain

"Divorced" doesn't particularly matter to the Church, because it doesn't recognize civil divorce as ending a marriage. However, living in an unmarried or adulterous relationship and having children out of wedlock is definitely a moral problem.

THIS DOES NOT make her decision to put her child's survival ahead of her own any less heroic or praiseworthy. It simply makes the description "devout Catholic" meaningless. People like this lady, who are anti-abortion no matter what the cost to themselves, can come from any religious background or none at all.


17 posted on 12/13/2005 8:02:06 AM PST by Tax-chick ("You don't HAVE to be a fat pervert to speak out about eating too much and lack of morals." ~ LG)
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To: Just mythoughts

"I do not know the answer to this question, is it the policy/requirement to be pro-life for a mom in this condition to give up her life per these circumstances?"




I suppose it is. This is one of the cases where I have absolutely no problem with abortion. This woman made her choice. Another might choose differently and opt to save her own life.

I know a woman who faced a similar situation. She opted to end the pregnancy. That was 20 years ago. Now, she has three children.

Difficult decision to make, and one I believe the person facing it must make for herself, perhaps in consultation with her husband and her doctor. It is not a decision that belongs to anyone else.

Flame away!


18 posted on 12/13/2005 8:02:21 AM PST by MineralMan (godless atheist)
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To: Sir Gawain

Hopefully the child grows up to be the one who cures cancer...BTW, been a long time Gawain...:-)


19 posted on 12/13/2005 8:02:31 AM PST by lovecraft (Specialization is for insects.)
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To: Tax-chick

Well we got all the way to post #5 before someone had to slam this woman for not being married.


20 posted on 12/13/2005 8:02:48 AM PST by Trust but Verify (( ))
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