Would You Choose Abortion When Doctor Says Baby is Abnormal, Disabled, Defective? Sometimes Medical Tests are WRONG

The most dreaded, feared and devastating words a pregnant woman can hear are the ones that say something is wrong with her unborn child. Especially when medical tests reveal something is very seriously wrong. Like chromosome defects, heart abnormalities, and other deformities.

Doctors and medical personnel frequently urge the woman to abort this defective child, and try again for a normal, healthy baby at a later date. Problem is, sometimes it is the medical tests that are incorrect. Or incorrectly interpreted. And then a normal baby is aborted on the basis of incorrect information. How many times does this happen? No one really knows. How many babies are killed who would have turned out to be completely healthy?

Read below about some cases in which a baby is aborted based on incorrect or misleading medical tests, and somehow lives through the abortion:

GABRIEL JONES
Aborted and Lived to Tell About It - The Miraculous Story of Baby Gabriel Jones

England is abuzz about "The Boy Who Lived," and no, his name isn't Harry Potter, but he did survive a deliberate attempt on his life. Two, in fact, while still in his mother's womb.

[Thriving: Photo above - Gabriel, right, with his twin brother Ieuan, is now a healthy 12lb 6oz at seven months]

The boy, Gabriel Jones, was the weaker twin and had an enlarged heart. Doctors told his mother that they believed he would die in the womb, and if he did, they said, that would cause his brother to die, too.

A pro-life supporter demonstrates in front of the U.S. Supreme Court during a rally marking the Court's decision on legalized abortion in Washington January 22, 2007. It is the 34th March for Life rally marking the Court's Roe vs. Wade decision.

The despondent mother, Rebecca Jones, agreed to terminate Gabriel to save his twin brother, Ieuan. First doctors attempted to sever his umbilical cord, but according to published reports, the cord proved too strong. So they halved Jones' placenta to allow Gabriel to die without harm to Ieuan.

Instead, the tiny boy thrived, and both children were born by caesarian section five weeks later. They are happy, healthy children, with the bright eyes, gummy smiles and wispy hair of adorable infants.

Read the entire article here.

Here is another happy story about Gabriel Jones:
We're Twinseparable! Happy with his Brother, the Boy Who Refused to Die

They say twins share a strong bond - but the one between Gabriel and Ieuan Jones was unbreakable.

When doctors found that Gabriel was weaker than his brother, with an enlarged heart,and believed he was going to die in the womb, his mother Rebecca Jones had to make a heartbreaking decision.

Doctors told her his death could cause his twin brother to die too before they were born, and that it would be better to end Gabriel's suffering sooner rather than later.

Mrs Jones decided to let doctors operate to terminate Gabriel's life.

Firstly they tried to sever his umbilical cord to cut off his blood supply, but the cord was too strong.

They then cut Mrs Jones's placenta in half so that when Gabriel died, it would not affect his twin brother.

But after the operation which was meant to end his life, tiny Gabriel had other ideas.

Although he weighed less than a pound, he put up such a fight for survival that doctors called him Rocky.

Astonishingly, he managed to carry on living in his mother's womb for another five weeks - until the babies were delivered by caesarean section.

Now he and Ieuan are back at home in Stoke - and are so close they are always holding each other's hand.

Mrs Jones, 35, a financial adviser whose husband Mark, 36, is a car salesman, said: "It really is a miracle. Doctors carried out an operation to let Gabriel die - yet he hung on.

"When I felt him kicking madly the morning after the operation, I suddenly knew that he was going to hang on.

"The doctors couldn't believe it when they could still hear his heartbeat the next morning."

Mrs Jones learned she was expecting twins when she was ten weeks pregnant. She said: "When they told us we were over the moon."

But at her 20-week scan, doctors had some devastating news. One of the boys was half the size of his brother.

They didn't know what was causing it, but somehow he wasn't getting enough nutrients.

Then doctors said his heart was three times normal size and it was likely he would have a heart attack or a stroke in the womb.

Mrs Jones said: "They told us that if he died, it could be life threatening for his brother.

"We had to decide whether to end his life and let his brother live, or risk them both."

It would be kinder to let him die in the womb with his brother by his side than to die alone after being born.

"That made my mind up for me. I wanted the best thing for him."

At Birmingham Women's Hospital, when Mrs Jones was 25 weeks pregnant, doctors tried to sever Gabriel's umbilical cord to cut off his blood supply and allow him to die.

But the cord was too thick, and they could not cut through it.

As a last resort they divided Mrs Jones's placenta so that when Gabriel died, it would allow Ieuan to survive. Mrs Jones said: "I put my hands on my stomach thinking of Gabriel. It was devastating. I had said my goodbyes."

But the next morning Mrs Jones felt Gabriel kicking. A scan showed his heart was still beating. She said: "No one could quite believe it."

Gabriel hung on, and his enlarged heart started to reduce in size. He also gained weight.

When Mrs Jones reached 31 weeks doctors carried out a caesarian to deliver the twins. Ieuan weighed 3lb 8oz and Gabriel 1lb 15oz. Both were kept in hospital, but since going home they have thrived. At seven months, Ieuan weighs 15lb and Gabriel 12lb 6oz.

Mrs Jones said: "The boys are so healthy, they have huge appetites too. Ieuan is the noisy one, while Gabriel is always laughing, it's like he's just so happy to be here.

"There is such a strong bond between them.

"They are always holding hands and if one cries, the other reaches out to comfort him."

"Doctors tried to break their bond in the womb, but they just proved it couldn't be broken."

FINLEY CRAMPTON
British Mum Overjoyed Miracle Baby Survived Abortion

A British baby has now become a cause célèbre for his mother and pro-life advocates in the United Kingdom for miraculously defying twin death sentences from abortion and genetics.

Finley Crampton's birth has overwhelmed his mother, Jodie Percival, who is happy that in the end her baby beat the enormous odds against him to be born a healthy boy.

Percival, 25, had decided to abort baby Finley at 8 weeks, because she carries a gene which triggers multicystic dysplastic kidney (MCDK) - a condition where cysts grow on the kidneys of an unborn baby. The condition is fatal when it affects both kidneys; however patients who have MCDK in one kidney can live normal lives, provided the other is healthy.

Percival's first child, Thane, had died from MCDK just 20 minutes after birth, and her second son, 20-month old Lewis also suffers from the disorder and now has one kidney. Percival and her fiancé Billy Crampton, 35, had been using the contraceptive pill to frustrate pregnancy when they discovered Percival was pregnant again. They opted to abort the baby.

"Deciding to terminate at eight weeks was just utterly horrible, but I couldn't cope with the anguish of losing another baby," Percival, 25, told the UK Daily Mail.

Miraculously, baby Finley survived the abortion attempt. Percival was unaware that her child had survived the abortion until she felt him move in her womb months later. A doctor's scan then confirmed Percival was 19 weeks pregnant.

Percival first berated the hospital for the failed abortion, which the hospital insisted was a rare anomaly in the business of killing unborn babies.

Although the child in her womb was still under the 24-week limit abortion limit, Percival and Crampton decided to keep the baby, as he had survived the abortion and doctors said he would likely be born healthy with only minor damage from MCDK.

In November 2007, Finley was born three weeks premature, at 6lb 3oz, with just minor kidney scarring; doctors expect he will live a normal healthy life.

Read the rest of the story here.

ITALIAN BABY BOY
Baby Fights for Life in Italy After Abortion Attempt

A baby was struggling for life in an intensive care unit in Florence yesterday after being resuscitated following an attempted abortion at 22 weeks' gestation because of indications of abnormalities which turned out to be false.

Medical tests had "raised certain doubts among the staff with respect to possible deformities". The doubts had vanished with a subsequent test, but they reappeared in the 20th week, when the woman returned for an ecography.

There was no sign of the baby's stomach, leading doctors to suspect that it might have an oesophageal atresia or tracheoesophageal fistula - or both. This would have meant at least one abnormality in the tube linking the child's mouth to its stomach.

Both conditions can be put right with surgery. However, the oesophageal atresia operation in Italy has a success rate of only 75% to 80%.

A second ecography gave the same result. But since neither of the two tests was conclusive, said Dr Scarselli, the patient was advised to have an magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan.

The baby's mother, who has not been identified, was admitted to hospital for a late abortion at the end of last week after being told her child might have abnormalities. The child showed signs of life after the procedure and, under Italian law, doctors were obliged to try to save it.

The baby, who weighed 500 grams (17oz), was resuscitated and found not to have any deformity. It had a cerebral haemorrhage, but it was not immediately clear if the haemorrhage was because of the attempted abortion.

The Italian news agency Ansa yesterday reported that the child's parents were "in shock".

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BRANDON KRAMER
Miracle Baby Arrives After Abortion Recommended - Review ordered after unborn incorrectly diagnosed as blind, deaf

An urgent review has been ordered into hospital procedures after an unborn baby diagnosed with rhomboencephalosynapsis, a rare and serious brain disease, was born without handicap to parents who now call him their "miracle."

The case developed in the Fetal Medicine Unit at University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff, where doctors first thought the baby known as Brandon Kramer, and who now is teething and trying to talk, had Down's Syndrome, according to a new report in the Daily Mail in the United Kingdom.

They later diagnosed the more rare brain condition after they determined he suffered from a swollen head and hydrocephalus while in the womb. They said tests showed his condition worsening, and they recommended to the parents that he be aborted.

The newspaper cited medical notes written by pediatric neurologist Dr. Cathy White shortly before Brandon's birth:

"Rhomboencephalosynapsis is an extraordinarily rare congenital abnormality and this, therefore, makes it very difficult to predict the long-term outcome for this baby," she wrote.

"I have explained to them [the parents] that children with this condition are likely to be profoundly handicapped with severe physical and learning disabilities and will be totally dependent for the whole of their life," she continued. "They often need the level of care given to babies for the whole of their lives."

Brandon's mother, Becky Weatherall, and father, Kriss Kramer, were offered "termination" because of the diagnosis and doctors' expectations he would be born deaf and blind and would survive no more than a few hours.

The report said, however, Brandon was born naturally and quickly given a clean bill of health after being examined by a team of specialists.

The parents say they are publicizing their situation to let people know.

"Perhaps doctors shouldn't put so much confidence in scans," Weatherall told the newspaper.

Read the entire article here.

Another story about Brandon Kramer: Doctors Advised Abortion: Baby Born Healthy

Trig Paxson Van Palin
Mom Rejects Abortion After Down Syndrdome Diagnosis

More than 80% of prenatal Down Syndrome diagnoses end in abortion. However, for expectant mom, Governor Sarah Palin, who has four children already at home, and a demanding career as well, abortion was never an option.

Who is Sarah Palin? She is the pro-life Republican governor of Alaska, and has been mentioned as a possible running mate for presumptive nominee John McCain. And on April 18th, 2008, she gave birth to her 6 lb. 2 oz. son, Trig Paxson Van Palin.

Read more about the amazing story of Gov. Palin and her pro-life views by clicking here.