Posted on 01/25/2016 9:12:39 PM PST by kathsua
Dustin Kiggins thinks of himself as “one of the lucky ones†because his parents gave him a chance at life when doctors said he should be aborted.
Before he was born, doctors told his parents that he could have serious physical and mental health problems. They warned his mother of the possibility of infection and suggested that she should abort him, he said.
But his parents refused to give up on him. Kiggins was born after just 24 weeks gestation on Nov. 24, 1993, weighing 1.5 pounds. Despite a long stay in the hospital as an infant, Kiggins said he has very few health problems today.
“Science said I should be dead, I should be deformed and transparent. I am alive, and I want to tell my story to as many people who will read it or listen,†Kiggins said.
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He told LifeNews:
I spent three months in the NICU as a result of being born premature, I had a brain bleed on the left side of my brain that would’ve required a stint had it not reabsorbed back into the brain. I was also born with stage four Retinopathy of prematurity, a condition of the retinas in both eyes that affects most preemies.
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My parents were told by doctors that I would be deformed and transparent, or that I would have mental and physical health issues. I was on oxygen for most of my stay at the hospital with steroids given in order to help my underdeveloped lungs. There were several times that I stopped breathing …
Today the only thing I’m left with as a result of my beginning is a few scars and mild Cerebral Palsy as a result of the brain bleed reabsorbing.
Now a college student and a blogger, the young man realizes that many babies in similar circumstances never got a chance at life. Kiggins said he wants his story to give hope to families facing pressure to abort their unborn babies because of a disability.
“I have met many other kids who have been born prematurely just like me and yet you would never know the difference,†he said. “I look at pictures and video of me in the NICU and I can hardly believe that that small and fragile baby was me, it is me.â€
Kiggins said he has been “blessed beyond measure by the Lord†because he defied the doctors’ predictions and lived longer than anyone thought he would.
“I as a man have every right to speak out on abortion because I could have been a victim,†Kiggins said. “My parents refused to abort me knowing that everything was in the hands of God himself.
“… I know that deep within my heart that I am one of the lucky ones,†he continued. “There are kids out there that were born much later than me and at the same time that either never survived or they have more challenges that I don’t have to face.â€
Nope. They're doing this to save money. Long hospital stays by preemies or kids with issues are expensive and 0bamacare won't want to pay.
Transparent? The see-through man?
((waving arms))
I’m here too!
I was diagnosed PVS and my mother was advised to put my into an institution or allow me to die.
Instead, she took me home a tube fed me and gave my physical therapy and lots of skin-to-skin contact. She tenderly nicknamed me her little ‘rag doll’.
At three months old, I cried for the first time.
I wasn’t supposed to be able to speak, let alone read and write. Yet, I’ve written 5 novels. I wasn’t supposed to help myself to the toilet let alone spend years caring for the disabled. I wasn’t supposed to respond to basic stimuli, but I’ve homeschooled two children.
We’re here!
Some of us are busted up from our journey, but we’re still fighting. We’re here! And doing quite well, thank you.
Wonderful!
Awesome.
Your mother is awesome and God is awesome.
And you write novels, homeschool, care for the disabled and are a Freeper.
I would guess that God had plans to use you and couldn’t let you die.
My youngest kid was diagnosed with one dead kidney and severe hydronephrosis in the other while still in the womb. We were asked if we wanted to abort. Without a second thought, both me and my wife answered “NO”
Tim is now taller than me, is an “A” student and requires no medication. His body absorbed the dead kidney and the remaining kidney has recovered and more than compensates for the missing one. He is by all accounts, a normal kid
It is easier to convince the parents to abort if it looks like there will be a problem. They don’t want the parents coming back to them claiming malpractice if there really is some sort of problem and the child is born alive. Money. It’s all about the money.
Planned parenthood tried to get me to abort my third child. A doctor tried to get me to abort my fourth (I had cmv antibodies in my blood). I didn’t. Terrible experiences.
thanks for sharing your beautiful story Marie... Are your books available on Amazon.? I would like to support you. Hugs
Marie,
You are truly a blessing from God.
Donna - God bless you!
Without a second thought, you and your wife said No! That statement gave me goosebumps and I was thinking how proud I would be to know you both! And how sweet that your son is now taller than you are!
“The doctors who want women to abort babies that won’t be perfect are in effect saying they lack the ability to deal with medical problems.”
Perhaps. I think they know they have the ability and the technology, but they believe it is better to not “waste” the resources on a less than perfect child. This is eugenics, and it is purely evil.
There is NOTHING but evil in abortion.
That pretty sums up the American people.
I think with a lot of the ‘American People’ it is about he money, but with the caveat, “for no work in return.” Our Labor Force Participation Rate is a testament to my assessment.
Thanks for sharing...I wanted to hear more!
Wow!
I’m just glad my mom didn’t abort me for a club foot! (I imagine some might today?)
She cried whenever I would win a ski race in High School.
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