PrintMay 2, 2010
Within an Inch of Their Lives
In Manchester, England lives a seven-year-old schoolboy, and he is not so different from other children...except that this child survived three attempts on his life before he took his first breath.In 2002, as a 24-week-old fetus, he was unsuccessfully purged from his mother's body in second-term abortion attempts. After the mother witnessed the movements of the child, she decided to save him from certain death by delivering him to the world. He lived as a result of her choice.And just this past week in Italy, a 22-week-old fetus managed to survive an abortion. Thought to be dead, he sustained life without the apparatuses of the womb for nearly two days. But ultimately, he succumbed to the conditions outside his mother's natural sanctuary. And he is dead today as a result of her choice.Though these are very different stories with very different results, such events raise important ethical questions about the practice of abortion in Western culture and our evaluation of the...(Read Full Article)
