Implying that a cesarean is high (deathly) risk is not true. I had two and lived. Yes it’s more risky than natural child birth. Every birth is risky.
I’ve thought of this many times, but sometimes I don’t like pre-natal technology. It serves an excellent purpose and serves us well, MOST of the time. I loved having my sonograms and would have been devastated if I had found out something was wrong with my little one. But what about the time before all this technology when life was simpler (and harder). Women didn’t know if their baby was healthy or not until it was born, thus no opportunity to kill it. No I’m not backward, and I think prenatal care is such a blessing….my point is, let God take the child. Let God be the ultimate judge of life and death. We can’t justify it, because the baby is sick. To me personally, abortion boils down to ONE THING……..a complete and utter lack of faith in God to take care of the situation in HIS TIME.
And the very saddest part about stories like this is, couples miss out on so many blessings a sick child can give. God, in his infinite wisdom had a plan for this baby. We are all going to die. Sick babies just die faster. Why take it? We don’t understand God or his plans. We only have a basic, limited understanding of the Supreme Being. His Glory is so magnificent, we don’t even have a clue until we meet him someday. It’s best not to interfere with his plans, IMHO.
Another thing that is sad, although I do not question the severity of this case, is many times I think the unborn babies poor health can be over exaggerated. I have a friend down the street who home school’s a very beautiful 11 year old girl with fluid on the brain. And I went to church with a women who was so incredibly sick during her pregnancy that the doctors begged her to abort. Her boy is 20 something now.
I do have to honestly admit something here before I go. I really struggle with the abortion issue in the case of the health of the mother. Especially if she has other children at home. And yet, I know a necessary abortion for the health of the mother is very rare, if honestly needed at all. I do struggle with it though.