Posted on 06/04/2008 6:41:19 PM PDT by PotatoHeadMick
Finley Crampton really shouldn't be here. Although his parents would have loved another child, they knew their baby could inherit a life-threatening kidney condition – and they couldn't take the risk.
After all, their first son had died of the condition and the second was born with serious kidney damage.
So when Finley's mother, Jodie Percival, became pregnant while on the Pill, she and her fiance Billy Crampton, 35, made the agonising decision to abort this child.
'Deciding to terminate at eight weeks was just utterly horrible but I couldn't cope with the anguish of losing another baby,' said Miss Percival, 25.
However, Finley had other ideas. And some time after the operation, Miss Percival felt a fluttering in her stomach.
Eventually her doctor sent her for a scan – and she discovered she was 19 weeks pregnant.
The child had survived the abortion and thrived in the womb. 'I couldn't believe it,' said Miss Percival. 'This was the baby I thought I'd terminated.
'At first I was angry that this was happening to us, that the procedure had failed.
'I wrote to the hospital, I couldn't believe that they had let me down like this. They wrote back and apologised and said it was very rare.'
But a week later, another scan confirmed that this baby had kidney problems too, like the couple's previous children.
Miss Percival carries a gene which triggers multicystic dysplastic kidney – which causes cysts to grow on the kidneys of an unborn baby.
Her first baby, Thane, had lived for only 20 minutes after she was forced to deliver him prematurely.
Her second son, Lewis, now 20 months, was born with a similar condition. He survives on one kidney.
However, doctors told the couple from Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, that this child was likely to survive, so they decided he deserved a chance.
And in November, Finley was born three weeks premature, at 6lb 3oz.
He had minor kidney damage but is expected to lead a normal life.
'I knew if that operation hadn't failed he wouldn't have been there,' said Miss Percival, a hairdresser.
'I just couldn't believe that this child had got through it all and looked so perfect.
'He may need an operation but as only one of his kidneys is affected he can survive.
'I still struggle to believe just what he has fought through. Now he's here I wouldn't change it for the world.'
Words fail me.
Yeah. The horror of a dead baby would be too much. You're much better off just having a dead baby instead.
huh?
I wonder what it would be like growing up knowing you are a failed abortion...
“I wonder what it would be like growing up knowing you are a failed abortion...”
You would feel like you’re a walking miracle.
How very sweet and kind of them. How magnanimous of them. Scumbags.
No? Then judge not.
Are you judging me?
I hear the U.K. is having a Divorce Fair to make it easier for couples to split up. Sounds like they need a Marriage Fair instead.
I bet if the kid had terrible kidney problems, they’d be pissed and would sue the pants off of the hospital and doctor who failed the abortion. Scumbags.
Finish the phrase,
Matthew 7:1-2 "Stop judging, that you may not be judged. 2 For as you judge, so will you be judged, and the measure with which you measure will be measured out to you.
It is not telling you not to judge, it is saying to make judgement, but be willing to have the same judgement and measure against you.
Personally, I got no problem being judged by the exact same measure
that child’s life could be cut short at any time
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Yes, well, the “parents” did their best to do that...
One day this child will be old to enough to realise that his mother tried to murder him before he was born. He already has a strike against him, with her for a mother. I pray he beats the odds, he’s already beat them once.
But what a disgusting woman, to treat this baby as an “inconvenience” to be gotten out of the way, even expressing indignation that the doctors “botched” the job. No angst, even, over her decision, she just wanted to get on with her useless life. Did I read that her title is “Miss”?
Hmmm, I am really happy that the baby defeated them, but man that sentence sounds really weird to me.
So, was she just going to keep playing abortion roulette until she got a "good one"?
To be fair, that is not at all what is implied by the article.
They have been convinced that it isn’t a baby if the mother decides to abort it.
Leftists don’t even know the rest of the verse.
And only those that seek to be completely free of judgement for their decisions quote the incomplete verse.
Could be cut short at any time? I should say so, with parents like this! They were afraid the child might die....so they tried to kill it??? huh?????
i’v never had an abortion, but i’v had a miscarriage at about 8 weeks and i’v also had a 14 month old child die. I can tell you that there is a difference....A HUGE HUGE difference in losing a child that you hold, look into their eyes daily, hear them call you mama etc....
just to clarify
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