(Prolifer)ations 6-3-08
by JivinJ
The boy’s doctors said Monday they think they have found a cure for the painful disease that, though rare, causes the skin to fall off at the slightest touch and inevitably leads to cancer. Most children who have it do not survive to adulthood.
“Maybe we can take one more disorder off the incurable list,” said Dr. John Wagner, a bone marrow specialist and stem cell researcher at the university. He agreed to treat Nate Liao after his mother begged Wagner to try using stem cells as therapy.
“It’s not often that it feels like you hit a home run in medical research, but this one feels like it,” Wagner said.
The couple, who met when they were teenagers and have been married for four years, were offered a selective reduction, which would mean removing one or more of the foetuses to increase the chances of the others surviving – but are determined to let nature take its course.
They been told the pregnancy carries a high risk of complications, but so far all four babies are developing well.
‘Both of us are against abortion,’ said Mr Wing. ‘We decided to take the risk.
‘We wanted a girl so how would we feel if we had selective reduction and found out that the ones we selected were girls?
‘Anyway, we didn’t want to say, “Right, you can live and you can die.” It was horrible even when the consultant was talking to us about it.’
The former state attorney general and current district attorney of Johnson County, in suburban Kansas City, Kline is that most unfortunate of political creatures – the inspired reformer. The object of his quixotic campaign is to reform the abortion laws of KS – not by changing them but by simply enforcing them.
In a place like KS, you might think, that’s T-ball politics ? but that would only be in the KS of popular (and Thomas Frank’s) imagination, where wily conservatives are winning the culture wars.
They’re definitely not, as Kline now knows well. He started his mission after being elected attorney general in 2002. After six years, he has been so badly mangled by KS’s political machinery that he’s the one under siege.
That’s his punishment for conducting a string of long and fruitful investigations that appear to show that the state’s largest abortion providers – including Johnson County’s Planned Parenthood clinic and George Tiller’s infamous late-term-abortion clinic in Wichita – have not only performed illegal abortions, they’ve also falsified documents as part of a cover-up.
[Photo courtesy of the Daily Mail]
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
“Quixotic” is the perfect term for Kline’s
“mission”, since it means “foolish” “irrational” and “hopeless”
Toss Phill the keys to the “truth truck” and he can drive off singing: “to dream, the impossible dream…”
No matter how often you try to breathe life into Phill’s obsession, he is circling the drain.
Quadruplets, AWESOME. I understand how they were offended by the doctor’s offer to kill some of their babies.
That first story took place at the University of Minnesota- and it was umbilical cord blood cells from the child’s younger brother Julian.
I hope Adult Stem Cells continue to provide cures like this one. Diabetes is what I hope will be cured with Adult Stem Cells since I have a cousin with diabetes.
Well Anon: it is not the loss you make it out to be.
What Phil Kline has shown is not merely that Tiller has performed illegal abortions and falsified documents but also several other things too.
He’s shown how rabid proaborts with the state government and judiciary are intent on ensuring the continuation of abortion at any cost – even to the point of upholding a criminal doctor who maims and kills women, falsifies documents. And to top it off there’s a WOMAN govenor who fetes abortionists to keep her power.
Phil Kline is an American hero. If you read this, say a prayer for him and his family.
A cousin of mine’s wife was having a very rough time conceiving and they tried fertility drugs, ended up with septuplets. The docs said the risks were very high, and that some wouldn’t survive.
The parents would have had all seven, are very much against abortion, and decided to try and make it though. Three died, then two more, and for a while it was looking pretty good for the remaining two but in the end they all were gone. A sad time for the family.
I don’t know what risks the Wings face, but good luck to them. If they “spontaneously conceived” then that sounds like no extra drugs or anything.
Doug, that is sad about your cousins wife. I also wonder if the IVF had something to do with the 0 survival. I can see how a person who tries so hard to get pregnant would have trouble killing any babies they conceived. Did they try again? Do they have any kids now?
Phil Kline is an American hero. If you read this, say a prayer for him and his family.
Posted by: DefundAbortionGuy at June 3, 2008 8:12 PM
Done
So happy for the couple that is expecting FOUR!! Also I am very proud they rejected “search and destroy.”
Doug,
I mean absolutely no disrespect to your cousins family, and I DO NOT agree with your philosophy, but I can’t help hear you in my head saying “Well, we have no need for unlimited human beings”…
I realize that sounds heartless, but that’s only because you know your cousins. And because they wanted their children.
But to us prolifers, every time you say something like “well, we already have enough people” that’s what you sound like to us.
Doug,
I am sorry that your cousin lost all of her babies. I too am wondering how they are now. :)
Kline’s obsession with “getting” PP is eerily similar to Nifong’s obsession with “getting” the Duke lacrosse players.
Nifong ended up disgraced, disbarred, unemployed and bankrupt. Kline should quit before he follows suit.
We give prosecutors great power and when they go nuts it is not pretty.
Doug,
That is so awful about your cousin. How is she doing? Did they have any more children or no? That is so sad, and they are in my prayers.
Anyone truly Quixotic (like Kline) is hateful to brutal, raping, self-centered, bullying, predatory muleteer types (like Tiller and his minions/fans/ilk)…but not to their prey.
Doug, that is sad about your cousins wife. I also wonder if the IVF had something to do with the 0 survival. I can see how a person who tries so hard to get pregnant would have trouble killing any babies they conceived. Did they try again? Do they have any kids now?
Truthseeker, yes – they already had Ruth, then Bryce, and I think they’re trying for more.
Carla and Elizabeth, this was a few years ago that my cousin and his wife lost all seven fetuses or “babies” if you wish, and they already had two kids and as far as I know are hoping for more.
They’re fine now, but it was a big disappointment at the time. If they don’t have any more biological kids, I could see them adopting. Really doubtful they’d try a surrogate mother.
I mean absolutely no disrespect to your cousins family, and I DO NOT agree with your philosophy, but I can’t help hear you in my head saying “Well, we have no need for unlimited human beings”…
I realize that sounds heartless, but that’s only because you know your cousins. And because they wanted their children.
MK, I wouldn’t want anybody forced to continue a pregnancy against their will, be it one fetus or twenty. We don’t need every woman to have 7 kids, let alone at one time, if they don’t want to. Nor do we need every woman to have kids, period.
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But to us prolifers, every time you say something like “well, we already have enough people” that’s what you sound like to us.
It’s not only because I know my cousin and his wife, I’m not for taking away the freedom to end pregnancies nor for taking away the freedom to continue them. Just the regular basic Pro-Choice deal.
Per that, if my cousin and his wife, or anybody else, for that matter, wants to have seven kids then I say go for it.