This Raises a Question the Pro-Aborts Don't Want Asked
In recent months several stories have come out that remind us that evry person has value & that no one should be aborted, even if he or she may be born with a disability. A prime example is that of Andrea Bocelli. His mother had been treated for a “simple attack of appendicitis.” The doctors said she should abort because the child would be born with a disability. Wisely, she didn't & we are now blessed with a great talent we would have been denied.
We see the same story being repeated here with Susan Boyle.
Their talent reminds us that a disability doesn't mean inability like those promoting abortion try to claim. They also play on the selfishness of many parents by presenting the difficulties as not worth it. Well, they are wrong. No matter how severe the disability, each person does have value. Each person is worth the effort & cost.
Which leads me to the question Pro-aborts don't want asked. What else has been lost because the child was murdered via abortion? I am not just refering to musical talent, or even just artistic talent. Have we lost the person who would have found a cure for breast cancer? Have we lost the person who could have discovered a better test for prostate cancer? Or the cure for AIDS?
But even more so, have we lost our ability to love & value each person, regardless of what they can or can't offer, simply because he or she is made in the image & likeness of God? While that has always been true to some extent, it seems that it is reaching new levels. Jesus warned that "because iniquity hath abounded, the charity of many shall grow cold." sure sounds like He is describing the situation we find ourselves in these days, doesn't it?
OK, I'm not saying that this means the 2nd Coming is nigh, though it might, just the destruction of our society. & regardless, we will have to stand up some day & answer for this lack of love & our consent if we remain silent.
By Peter J. Smith
EDINBURGH, United Kingdom, October 15, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – International singing phenomenon Susan Boyle has revealed in a new autobiography that doctors had told her mother to abort her, because they thought the pregnancy was risky.
Boyle soared to stardom in April 2009 after appearing on the UK television program, Britain’
s Got Talent, when the plain-looking Scotswoman shocked audiences with a powerful rendition of “I Dreamed a Dream” from the musical version of Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables.
But the 49-year-old native of Blackburn, a village in West Lothian, Scotland would never have dreamed the dream of singing on the international stage, if her mother had agreed to abort her on the advice of doctors. In her autobiography, The Woman I Was Born To Be, Boyle reveals that doctors recommended a “termination” to Bridget Boyle, who already was a mother of eight children, because they feared physical complications.
Boyle reveals that her mother rejected this advice as “unthinkable” since she was a “devout Catholic.”
When Boyle was born by emergency c-section, doctors did not tell her mother the usual “Congratulations, Mrs. Boyle! A beautiful baby girl.” Boyle wrote that doctors took a dismissive view of her life – especially when they suspected brain damage due to oxygen deprivation.
“‘It’s probably best to accept Susan will never be anything,” Boyle recounted the doctors telling her mother. “‘Susan will never come to anything so don’t expect too much of her.’”
“I’m sure they had the best of intentions,” Boyle continued, “but I don’t think they should have said that, because nobody can foretell the future.”
“What they didn’t know was that I am a bit of a fighter, and I’ve been trying all my life to prove them wrong.”
Boyle released her first album “I Dreamed a Dream” on November 23, 2009, and quickly sold 9 million copies in six weeks, making it the number one selling album for that year. The Guinness Book of World Records also recognized Boyle as the number one female artist in the UK with the fastest selling debut album.
In recent years, a number of popular icons have revealed that they had mothers who were faced with the choice to abort or give birth.
Andrea Bocelli, Italian pop, opera, and classical singer, revealed to the world this year that doctors recommended abortion to his mother after she experienced an attack of appendicitis, making it likely that her son would be born with a disability. Bocelli is completely blind.
Bocelli said he hoped that the story of his brave mother “could encourage many mothers that find themselves in difficult situations in those moments when life is complicated, but want to save the life of their baby.” (see coverage)
In the United States, college football star Tim Tebow (now back-up quarterback for the Denver Broncos) revealed that doctors recommended abortion to his mother after she became sick in the Philippines.
Tebow’s story was featured in a brief 30-second ad spot purchased for the Super Bowl. According to one study, 92.6 million Americans watched the ad. Of those who identified themselves as supportive of abortion, four percent said they were led to "personally reconsider [their] opinion about abortion" after watching Tebow and his mother Pam tell their story in the ad. (see coverage)
A preview of Boyle’s autobiography The Woman I Was Born To Be is available here.
See related coverage by LifeSiteNews.com:
Andrea Bocelli Confirms: He’s Not Merely Anti-Abortion, he’s “For Life”
EDINBURGH, United Kingdom, October 15, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – International singing phenomenon Susan Boyle has revealed in a new autobiography that doctors had told her mother to abort her, because they thought the pregnancy was risky.
Boyle soared to stardom in April 2009 after appearing on the UK television program, Britain’
s Got Talent, when the plain-looking Scotswoman shocked audiences with a powerful rendition of “I Dreamed a Dream” from the musical version of Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables.But the 49-year-old native of Blackburn, a village in West Lothian, Scotland would never have dreamed the dream of singing on the international stage, if her mother had agreed to abort her on the advice of doctors. In her autobiography, The Woman I Was Born To Be, Boyle reveals that doctors recommended a “termination” to Bridget Boyle, who already was a mother of eight children, because they feared physical complications.
Boyle reveals that her mother rejected this advice as “unthinkable” since she was a “devout Catholic.”
When Boyle was born by emergency c-section, doctors did not tell her mother the usual “Congratulations, Mrs. Boyle! A beautiful baby girl.” Boyle wrote that doctors took a dismissive view of her life – especially when they suspected brain damage due to oxygen deprivation.
“‘It’s probably best to accept Susan will never be anything,” Boyle recounted the doctors telling her mother. “‘Susan will never come to anything so don’t expect too much of her.’”
“I’m sure they had the best of intentions,” Boyle continued, “but I don’t think they should have said that, because nobody can foretell the future.”
“What they didn’t know was that I am a bit of a fighter, and I’ve been trying all my life to prove them wrong.”
Boyle released her first album “I Dreamed a Dream” on November 23, 2009, and quickly sold 9 million copies in six weeks, making it the number one selling album for that year. The Guinness Book of World Records also recognized Boyle as the number one female artist in the UK with the fastest selling debut album.
In recent years, a number of popular icons have revealed that they had mothers who were faced with the choice to abort or give birth.
Andrea Bocelli, Italian pop, opera, and classical singer, revealed to the world this year that doctors recommended abortion to his mother after she experienced an attack of appendicitis, making it likely that her son would be born with a disability. Bocelli is completely blind.
Bocelli said he hoped that the story of his brave mother “could encourage many mothers that find themselves in difficult situations in those moments when life is complicated, but want to save the life of their baby.” (see coverage)
In the United States, college football star Tim Tebow (now back-up quarterback for the Denver Broncos) revealed that doctors recommended abortion to his mother after she became sick in the Philippines.
Tebow’s story was featured in a brief 30-second ad spot purchased for the Super Bowl. According to one study, 92.6 million Americans watched the ad. Of those who identified themselves as supportive of abortion, four percent said they were led to "personally reconsider [their] opinion about abortion" after watching Tebow and his mother Pam tell their story in the ad. (see coverage)
A preview of Boyle’s autobiography The Woman I Was Born To Be is available here.
See related coverage by LifeSiteNews.com:
Andrea Bocelli Confirms: He’s Not Merely Anti-Abortion, he’s “For Life”
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2010/jun/10062109.html
Famed Blind Singer Andrea Boccelli Reveals, He Was Almost Aborted
Famed Blind Singer Andrea Boccelli Reveals, He Was Almost Aborted
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2010/jun/10060414.html
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