Sextuplets survive abortion advice
Filed under Life & Family, News on June 16th, 2009 by Marc Thomas“They more or less advised us to [abort some of the babies],” says Nuala Conway, a 26 year old mother of newborn sextuplets in Northern Ireland, “They told us about the risks we faced if we went ahead with the pregnancy.”
The Roman Catholic couple decided to ignore doctors who advised the termination of some of the sextuplets in the 14th week of pregnancy, answering pro-abortion medical staff saying, “These babies are a wonderful gift from God. Whatever God laid out for our lives we were taking it.”
According to The Telegraph, sextuplets are born to one in 4.5 Million pregnancies.
What about the health issues? Won’t they have a poor quality of life? “The babies have been on and off antibiotics and ventilators. They are thriving really well but it’s hard to get a good day,” says new father Austin who has stopped working so that he can be at the hospital more, “There are so many of them there are always days when one or two will not be doing so well.”
“I fell in love when they were in the womb.” Nuala adds, “When one moved they would all move and I could definitely feel 24 limbs kicking.”
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I caution you to avoid the fallacy of “These kids would not be alive if they were aborted, therefore having them was the right move.”
The reason why this is fallacious is because almost no one with a heart would wish their kids away once they’re born, let alone grown a few years.
My friend got married right out of high school, then promptly divorced. He has a 10 year old. When I asked him if he regretted getting married right away, he said “Well of course I can’t say that, because then I wouldn’t have my son.” However, had he waited until he was a bit older and found the right woman, he would have had another child he would have loved just as much, and been better off. Of course, he wouldn’t “delete” his child from his past.
If you ask Bristol Palin if she regrets having premarital sex, she might say yes now, but ask her once she has a 3 year old, she’ll probably say it was the best thing she ever did. Is that because her child is a beautiful work of God? No, it’s cognitive dissonance. I’m not saying anyone SHOULD regret having a kid, just that the lack of regret doesn’t mean it was a good idea.
I sometimes hear someone say “What if Leonardo Da Vinci’s mother had an abortion?”
I say, “What if Adolph Hitler’s mother was advised to abort?” Would that make it a mistake for her to have the child? Of course not, she did what was right for her as a mother at the time. The fact that her child grew up to be a terror is something completely irrelevant and something she couldn’t have known.
Maybe we should have an article, “Bristol Palin’s child survives abstinence advice.” :-)
–Dan
“Maybe we should have an article, “Bristol Palin’s child survives abstinence advice.” :-) ”
Well, that certainly made me laugh out loud - rather clever turn of phrase! Nice work.
It’s sad when couples have kids and then divorce, but is it worth aborting a child at all? Even if it’s going to be dirt poor? Even if it will have a crippling disease? Some may argue yes, but I’d really be interested in hearing the response of one such child (if they could give one.)
There are heaps of examples of kids who grew up to be great even though their family situation was adverse. Examples include, Martin Luther King Jr., Mozart and Jesus himself.
Thanks for chipping in again Dan,
Marc
Dan,
It goes without saying, but there would have been no living person killed if Bristol Palin had remained abstinent. And if we can love a child brought into the world through something as painful and sinful as rape or incest, while still being against rape and incest, indeed punishing those that perpetrated it, why can’t Bristol Palin’s response be both joy at the presence of her child, and repentence of her not coming into the covenant of marriage before giving birth to this wonderful child (although obviously the sperm and the egg would have been different, but if you want to go to this level of metaphysical philosophy, then I think we’d be here forever pontificating)? As Frank Turek has stated, “there are no illegitimate children, just illegitimate parents.”
Consider Joseph’s confession to his brothers after being sold into slavery by them: “As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good in order to bring about this present result, to preserve many people alive.” Rather than being a contridictary statement, or a way of flippintly dismissing his brother’s sin and the pain it caused him, this is a powerful decleration of God’s sovereignty and power.
Thanks for sharing this article, Marc. Glad to see all of their children made it out alive.
I remember hearing a story where a doctor advised a mother to abort her infant, because the doctor believed the child wasn’t likely going to survive long after birth. The mother couldn’t live with the thought of not giving her child a chance at life, so she didn’t take the advise given by the doctor. And sure enough, the baby was born with something that could be easily fixed with cosmetic surgery, I think it was a cleft lip…Can’t quite remember.
Oh dear! That’s quite a shocking story, Nicole! It’s great when life triumphs over death. Glad you enjoyed reading about this!
He knocks,
Marc
“It’s great when life triumphs over death”–Marc
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