I wrote earlier today about late term aborted babies in the UK being left to die even when born alive. Awful. Then, this story comes out about a baby born 4 months early who is thriving:
Born 16 weeks premature and weighing just 1lb 4oz, Charlie Jo Glover was so tiny her hand could fit inside a ring. Put on oxygen in an incubator, she clung on to life while doctors warned her worried parents she might not survive. But now Janice Snalam, 39, and partner Michael Glover, 41, are preparing to celebrate the birthday they feared their daughter would never see…
Miss Snalam and her partner, a delivery driver, were told that Charlie Jo could die because she was so premature her lungs were not properly formed. Her parents, who have been together for ten years and have another daughter Holly, four, were also told their baby had a 50 per cent chance of being physically or mentally disabled. But after a battery of tests, she has finally been given the all-clear. Miss Snalam said: “Charlie Jo’s fantastic. She’s got two teeth, she’s eating off a spoon and she’s sitting up on her own.
Would some of the aborted babies neglected to death have survived and similarly thrived? Unknowable. But they deserved the chance to try simply and merely because they were human.
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