When a premature baby fights for life, the natural response should be compassion. Increasingly, it is something else. What does it mean when even the sight of a child feels like an accusation?
I should add in the interest of full disclosure that I was actually measuring pretty close to normal and if I had been full term I would have been quite large. But it did mean I was born 90 miles from my hometown because the small hospital in said hometown didn't have any facilities for handling a premie in 1988. And actually, as of 2026, they still don't.
A POWERFUL post, Sarah. God Bless You. Planned Parenthood on Moreland Avenue in W-S performs abortions EVERY WEEK on Monday, Tuesday, and Friday. I hope you will permit me to use this comment space to encourage any and all who support life in all stages to go by PP on these "Killing Days" and offer a prayer for both the babies and the mothers who feel abortion is their only option. There are other options, one of them is Salem Pregnancy Care Center which is right across the street from PP, and offers excellent ongoing help for mothers.
On the other hand, many of us who love our Lord and pray He takes care of such delicate new lives, have said heartfelt and grateful prayers when we have given birth to a healthy baby (*not a fetus*). On another note, I thanked God for our baby who was born healthy on her due date! 👶 😇 ✝️
Every mother and every child suffers during childbirth. Suffering is an integral part of humanity. It is clear that, from this short video that the child is not expressing any suffering. What we do with suffering defines who we are and what is taking place here is providing the child with an opportunity to live. If the child were able to express itself do you think it would choose death over life? I think not. Every child that is aborted attempts to fight for life.
Very good post, thank you. It reminds me of what happened in Britain yesterday evening: the House of Lords last night voted to allow abortion up to birth
Bravo. A society that would allow its members to act according to their own personal morality cannot survive. Sooner or later, our society will have to decide if, and when, abortions will be allowed. Photos like the one you showed in your post are important in that debate. On the other hand, WE have to make that decision, not some people who lived two or three thousand years ago. After all, they did not see any moral problem in having slaves, but we do.
I would like to make one more point. I doubt anyone wants an abortion. Some women may feel they have no choice, but I doubt any woman will say when she finds herself pregnant "Ah, finally I can have an abortion, like all my girlfriends". Abortions are done because some pregnancies are unwanted (for whatever reason). It seems to me that it would be far more effective to focus on reducing the number of unwanted pregnancies when attempting to reduce the number of abortions than on criminalizing the act. Of course, reducing the number of unwanted pregnancies will involve the role of men (my gender) in creating those pregnancies. All I can say about that is "about time".
This is a subject, so deep, that it's difficult to have only one answer and only one viewpoint that's considered valid. While we can't condone using abortion as a birth control method, there are definitely times when it's called for, to save a woman's life, or when the child trying to be born has such serious damage that it will be basically in a vegetative condition for its whole existence. Personally, in cases of rape or incest, I would probably condone it, also, but I understand this isn't a popular opinion for most Christian people.
Also, premature birth, in many instances, is a wake up call to the lack of good health in many women, the excess use of alcohol and/or drugs by a pregnant woman, or damage to either the woman, child or both, caused by chemical pollution from pesticide and herbicide residues on food and in water and the air.
We have a grandson that was preemie, born at 24 weeks and three days. He was healthy but his mama couldn't keep him in and the docs took him out with a C section. He spent three and a half months in the nicu, three of those he was intubated. He's general healthy and we're blessed to have him. He'll be ten next month.
Anyway, like I said, it's a deep, difficult question. Unless the pollution of the earth is cleaned up, and the pollution of the minds of men are cleaned up, there won't be any easy answers to the problems humanity faces. And unless society, as a whole, agrees to help take care of, and support, all the babies being born in difficult situations, some women will still choose to have abortions for a variety of reasons.
It's more demonic than this. When they see a premature child, what they see is a lost abortion. Abortion is, for them, a positive moral good and the highest sacrament.
I was six weeks premature. Now I'm a Bioethicist.
I'm glad you're here. I was late, which seems like much less of a flex.
I should add in the interest of full disclosure that I was actually measuring pretty close to normal and if I had been full term I would have been quite large. But it did mean I was born 90 miles from my hometown because the small hospital in said hometown didn't have any facilities for handling a premie in 1988. And actually, as of 2026, they still don't.
Six weeks is still pretty early. Wow. It sounds like you made a dramatic entrance in a few ways.
Just setting the tone for the next 38 years.
A POWERFUL post, Sarah. God Bless You. Planned Parenthood on Moreland Avenue in W-S performs abortions EVERY WEEK on Monday, Tuesday, and Friday. I hope you will permit me to use this comment space to encourage any and all who support life in all stages to go by PP on these "Killing Days" and offer a prayer for both the babies and the mothers who feel abortion is their only option. There are other options, one of them is Salem Pregnancy Care Center which is right across the street from PP, and offers excellent ongoing help for mothers.
I too was a premie! Now I'm 69 and grateful for the care I received. Sure glad TatumT wasn't around to "help".
On the other hand, many of us who love our Lord and pray He takes care of such delicate new lives, have said heartfelt and grateful prayers when we have given birth to a healthy baby (*not a fetus*). On another note, I thanked God for our baby who was born healthy on her due date! 👶 😇 ✝️
Every mother and every child suffers during childbirth. Suffering is an integral part of humanity. It is clear that, from this short video that the child is not expressing any suffering. What we do with suffering defines who we are and what is taking place here is providing the child with an opportunity to live. If the child were able to express itself do you think it would choose death over life? I think not. Every child that is aborted attempts to fight for life.
"Abortion is an act of worship to Satan."
Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò
Very good post, thank you. It reminds me of what happened in Britain yesterday evening: the House of Lords last night voted to allow abortion up to birth
https://dailysceptic.org/2026/03/19/britain-now-allows-abortion-up-to-birth-for-any-reason-and-the-public-dont-care/
Bravo. A society that would allow its members to act according to their own personal morality cannot survive. Sooner or later, our society will have to decide if, and when, abortions will be allowed. Photos like the one you showed in your post are important in that debate. On the other hand, WE have to make that decision, not some people who lived two or three thousand years ago. After all, they did not see any moral problem in having slaves, but we do.
I would like to make one more point. I doubt anyone wants an abortion. Some women may feel they have no choice, but I doubt any woman will say when she finds herself pregnant "Ah, finally I can have an abortion, like all my girlfriends". Abortions are done because some pregnancies are unwanted (for whatever reason). It seems to me that it would be far more effective to focus on reducing the number of unwanted pregnancies when attempting to reduce the number of abortions than on criminalizing the act. Of course, reducing the number of unwanted pregnancies will involve the role of men (my gender) in creating those pregnancies. All I can say about that is "about time".
This is a subject, so deep, that it's difficult to have only one answer and only one viewpoint that's considered valid. While we can't condone using abortion as a birth control method, there are definitely times when it's called for, to save a woman's life, or when the child trying to be born has such serious damage that it will be basically in a vegetative condition for its whole existence. Personally, in cases of rape or incest, I would probably condone it, also, but I understand this isn't a popular opinion for most Christian people.
Also, premature birth, in many instances, is a wake up call to the lack of good health in many women, the excess use of alcohol and/or drugs by a pregnant woman, or damage to either the woman, child or both, caused by chemical pollution from pesticide and herbicide residues on food and in water and the air.
We have a grandson that was preemie, born at 24 weeks and three days. He was healthy but his mama couldn't keep him in and the docs took him out with a C section. He spent three and a half months in the nicu, three of those he was intubated. He's general healthy and we're blessed to have him. He'll be ten next month.
Anyway, like I said, it's a deep, difficult question. Unless the pollution of the earth is cleaned up, and the pollution of the minds of men are cleaned up, there won't be any easy answers to the problems humanity faces. And unless society, as a whole, agrees to help take care of, and support, all the babies being born in difficult situations, some women will still choose to have abortions for a variety of reasons.
If you've read this far, thank you,
Clem
It's more demonic than this. When they see a premature child, what they see is a lost abortion. Abortion is, for them, a positive moral good and the highest sacrament.
I forgot to mention that the Pregnancy health care services at Salem Pregnancy are FREE!