In my Town Hall email today, I learned about a baby who should have been aborted, according to her obstetrician, and when the parents said no, he refused to continue to treat the mother and daughter-to-be.
http://pearljoybrown.wordpress.com/
http://townhall.com/columnists/marybethhicks/2012/09/05/given_a_fighting_chance_little_pearl_thrives/page/full/
This really is not anything new in the world, it is just a reminder, and a reminder coincident with a Presidential election during which these things have been made political when they are anything BUT politics.
They were not political to my nephew and his wife when their daughter was born at 21 weeks. Now, Mark has a big hand, admittedly, but still it's a hand - and Grace was still smaller than his hand. Historically, and legally, there have been parents and hospitals who would have tucked her in one of those clear hospital baby holder thingies in the corner with no attention, instead of the incubator and constant attention she got, and waited for her to turn from a live baby to a dead blob of tissue (sorry if you read this Mark - it's about the concept, certainly not about our miracle).
They were not political to my classmate Stephanie when her daughter was born at full term, bounced around healthy as could be, and suddenly became the "case in point" that introduced too many of us to Group B Streptococcus. I don't like strep throats anyway; but, this is a strep spine and brain. As Stephanie and Travis watched helplessly but lovingly, Baby Thumper, aka Samantha, went from absolutely "normal" (a meaningful yet worthless concept) to having her brain completely and literally devoured by bacteria. This is not just having a sore throat - this is watching MRI's progressively showing more and more void space in her head until the brain was 80% gone and Sammy no longer had the electrical activity to stay living. Stephanie is a Director of Christian Education and Travis is a Pastor, so their trip has been heavily faith affected. You can find Stephanie's blog, the pictures as previously linked, and a Caring Bridge detailed story if you write to Stephanie for the link.
These are two wanted children with different outcomes. Pearl Joy Brown now enters the same arena. What can you do for her? What would you do for her? How would you treat her or have treated her if she were yours? Why? How do you feel?
Oh, by the way - I don't know who is Republican and who is Democrat here. All I know is who are parents.
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