Posted on 02/02/2005 11:13:35 AM PST by marshmallow
NEW ORLEANS (CNS) -- Serena was three months pregnant and in turmoil. The young Panamanian-born mother of two was suffering from diabetes, and personnel at the Causeway Medical Clinic in Metairie, Louisiana's largest abortion clinic, told her the disease could cause severe birth defects in her unborn child if she went ahead and had the baby.
The ambivalence Serena felt after her first consultation at the abortion clinic intensified overnight. As she was driven to the facility for her scheduled abortion on April 10, 2004 -- Holy Saturday -- she saw a group of people walking and praying on the sidewalk in front of the clinic. Serena -- who asked that her last name not be used in print -- got out of the car just a few feet from the clinic entrance, and then decided to make a U-turn.
She walked over to Pam Richard, who along with her husband, John, coordinates the New Orleans Archdiocesan Sidewalk and Prayer Ministry, and to Jesuit Father Richard C. Hermes, who was keeping vigil with a group of students from the Pro-Life Club at Jesuit High School in New Orleans. Serena's story has an ending -- actually a beginning -- that Richard says still gives her goose bumps.
On Nov. 23 Serena gave birth to her third son, 8-pound, 7-ounce Jaykob Angel, healthy in every way. On Jan. 16 pro-life supporters and the students at Jesuit High School gathered at the student chapel as Father Hermes baptized the baby who had been saved from death. The Richards served as Jaykob's godparents.
And it's a two-fer. A baby saved from abortion and a good Jesuit priest! (Catholic in-joke on the present state of the Jesuits).
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I should start a pro-life club at my school.
personnel at the Causeway Medical Clinic in Metairie, Louisiana's largest abortion clinic
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Filthy, rotten butchers...
Finally, something to read that gives me tears of joy! Praise God for the work these people did in His name!
Love the pro-life story.
Your observations on the current state of the Jesuits is apropos, though.
Canisius University just had Hellary at their campus, and LeMoyne just expelled a grad student in the Education dept. for writing a paper (for a class) that advocated limited, supervised, parentally-mandated corporal punishment.
From what I know of Catholic schools, ruler marks across the knuckles were de rigeur!
It's amazing to see the lows the blood industry will stoop to in order to eat another child.
Whoopee!! Choose life folks! This is why!
Untreated diabetics can indeed have problem pregnancies. I guess it would have been too much like right for the clinic to tell the woman that she needed to see an endocrinologist who was experienced in helping diabetic women through pregnancy.
I go to a university diabetes center. There are many happy diabetic women who have given birth with the proper medical care through facilities such as this.
In addition to women who are already diabetic when they become pregnant, many women have gestasional diabetes and give birth to healthy babies.
I'll risk getting flamed here and say that I think a woman should have choice in some limited circumstances. However, being lied to about medical realities is a disgusting tactic. It is obvious that Planned Parenthood is not about true informed choice, but about only one choice, and that is death.
If their major drive is for abortion, then why is it called PLANNED PARENTHOOD?....
No one has seriously proposed that not be the case, given the caveate that we are dealing with reality and not some abortionist fantasyland.
Abortion probably should be limited to ectopic pregnancies, where only one life is savable anyway.
For abortionists, "health of the mother" boils down to, "I might get upset if I don't get my way."
I would like to report that that child is now 29 years old, the mother of 3, a college graduate (went to collge on a basketball scholarship) and the only problem that she had was she had minute optic nerves and therefore had no peripheral vision. We never told her basketball coaches. She compensated with hearing the opponent. She is one awesome gal.
I've had discussions with my mother about whether or not I could abort my child if it were a health risk to me. For me, it's an easy answer, absolutely not. I would rather die so that my child may live. I've already lived a full life, my unborn child has not. I would glady die for my child so that he or she may live. Yes, he or she may grow up without a mom, but under no circumstances could I or would I kill my unborn baby. Even if that means I have to die in the process.
Ectopic pregnancies are non-viable. Under no circumstances will the child live.
I don't know of any pregnancy situation that threatens the life of the mother, but I am not a doctor.
"It's amazing to see the lows the blood industry will stoop to in order to eat another child."
yep, it's really tremendous. Thank God and these good people that this child was saved from death and his mother saved from committing sin.
but you know, they don't even eat them, they just kill them. (was that really terrible? i apologize in advance for any offense caused!)
Thought you would enjoy this story.
Toxemia of pregnancy (pre-eclampsia) threatens the life of a mother. I should know, I had two, but I received excellent care and had two healthy children, and of course, didn't die. ;-D
Lot's of things can "threaten" the life of the mother, heck pregnancy itself is hardly risk free. But the only condition I am aware of where abortion is the only (or even a good) option is tubal (ectopic) pregnancy. And in that case the baby can't survive anyway.
Thanks.
I was not involved but was invited to the baptism. I had prior commitments and could not make it.
More info w photos in minutes.........
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