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.
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.
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.
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! 👶 😇 ✝️
I too was a premie! Now I'm 69 and grateful for the care I received. Sure glad TatumT wasn't around to "help".
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