Baby Survives Abortion

Baby Pronounced Dead Lives After Hours in Cooler

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A stillborn Israeli baby who was pronounced dead by doctors "came back to life" on Monday after spending hours in a hospital refrigerator.

The baby, weighing only 600 grams at birth, spent at least five hours inside one of the hospital's refrigerated storage units, before her parents, who had taken her to be buried, began noticing some movement.

"We unwrapped her and felt she was moving. We didn't believe it at first. Then she began holding my mother's hand, and then we saw her open her mouth," said 26-year-old Faiza Magdoub, the baby's mother.

The baby was pronounced dead several hours earlier, after doctors at Western Galilee hospital in northern Israel were forced to abort her mother's pregnancy because of internal bleeding. Magdoub was 23 weeks into her pregnancy.

"We don't know how to explain this, so when we don't know how to explain things in the medical world we call it a miracle, and this is probably what happened," hospital deputy director Moshe Daniel said.

The baby was then taken to the hospital's neonatal intensive care unit for further treatment, but doctors were not sure how long she will live.

Motti Ravid, a professor of internal medicine, told Israel's Channel 10 that the low temperature inside the cooler had slowed down the baby's metabolism and likely helped her survive.

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What Does This Mean?

Over the past week and a half we've seen that size does not equal value, level of awareness does not make someone more or less human, where you are has no bearing on who you are, and degree of dependency does not affect personhood.

The end result of this is that the most common arguments for abortion are defeated, and we see that the unborn is human. As humans their life needs to be respected. Abortion is not the way to go about "getting rid of your problem." There are many couples in the world who want to have children but are unable to. Adoption is a great way to give your child life, and save yourself a lot of heartache, while fulfilling the dream of someone else. You have a choice. Choose life.



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Dependency

The past several posts we've seen how size does not equal value, level of self-awareness does not make someone more or less human, and where you are has no bearing on who you are. The last commonly thought of difference between us and the fetus is degree of dependancy. After all, the unborn is dependent on its mother for nutrition. But we see that minors are dependant on their parents or guardians, and the elderly often dependant on their children - or diabetics dependent on insulin.  So why would a fetus being dependent on his/her mother make him or her less human? It doesn't. Dependency on someone or something does not make one have more or less human or un-human.


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The Environment

Size does not indicate value, and level of self-awareness does not make someone more or less human. So what is another commonly thought of different between the fetus in the womb, and you? Well, environment, of course! But this also does not affect human nature. You do not change in nature if you walk across the street or if you go to another country or if you visit outer space. So if you can travel these great differences and still remain a human, why would 8 inches down a birth canal suddenly make one human? It doesn't. Where you are has no bearing on who you are.

Next time we will look at one more difference between us and the fetus.


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Self-awareness

Last post I noted how size does not equal value, and does not give us a right to terminate a pregnancy based on how we are larger than the fetus. Another difference that comes to mind regarding fetus' and us is level of self-awareness. This, too, however, is not a good reason to terminate. A 14 year old is more self aware than a 4 year old, but not more valuable. A 40 year old is not more valuable than that same 14 year old, even though he may be more self aware. In the same way a 4 week old from conception is still valuable even if not very self aware. This is true because Self-awareness does not make one human.
Next time we'll look at another commonly thought of difference between us and those in the womb.


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