Having given birth to eight children over 23 years, she had been advised not to have any more.
The doctors considered the danger so severe they offered a termination but that would have been unthinkable for my mother, a devout Catholic.
~ Singing sensation Susan Boyle, first discovered on Britain’s Got Talent in 2007, recounting her near miss birth in The Daily Mail, October 4
[HT: Susie Allen]
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Ah Susan you are one of many, many stories that I continue to hear about! God’s blessings on you and your mother!!
I love Susan Boyle. She has spunk! Just like Carla. :)
I heart the word spunk! :)
So where are the voices of the ardent Catholics who died in childbirth?
Oh yeah, they’re dead.
“So where are the voices of the ardent Catholics who died in childbirth?”
In heaven along with the child you payed to have killed.
Ooh, burn. But somehow I think even you would find the death of a 30-year-old woman more tragic than that of a six-year-old fetus.
Megan, All murders are equally tragic to me but a murder would be much more personally tragic to me if the victim was someone close to me. The death of a stranger of any age could never be more tragic to me then the death of my unborn child.
Has it by any chance been about six years since the death of your child?
Baby Gumm’s parent’s were in a financial slump when she was conceived. They asked a friend of theirs to help them procure an abortion but he talked them out of it. Baby Gumm starred in the Wizard of Oz in 1939. That’s right… Judy Garland.
Ooh, burn. But somehow I think even you would find the death of a 30-year-old woman more tragic than that of a six-year-old fetus.
Megan,
It’s easy to understand why you would feel that the death of a thirty year-old is more tragic than the death of an unborn fetus, especially if the thirty-year old was someone you knew face-to-face and the unborn fetus was completely unknown to you. But feelings don’t usually lead us to the truth. Who are we to decide which one is more worthy of life? What criteria do we use? Putting more value on one person’s life over another’s, besides being a justification for abortion, can lead down a slippery slope to cost-based selective healthcare for the elderly, and euthanasia. Are you willing to take the risk?
ninek,
Thank God for that friend, and thank God we had the chance to know Judy Garland! Life just wouldn’t be the same without “The Wizard of Oz” and “Meet Me in St. Louis”! Just goes to show that each of us can make a difference in a pregnant woman’s life if we just make the effort. (Pro-aborts: That’s what CPC’s do!)
Megan, why is it a problem for you–who claims to be “pro-choice”–if someone CHOOSES not to have an abortion when their life is in danger?
It seems like all of us pro-lifers are pro-choice when the mom’s life is in danger, but the so-called pro-choicers seem to want to take our choices away. Please keep your ideology off my body and my children’s bodies.