A
Canadian father and husband is experiencing an impossible mix of
emotions at the birth of his first child followed by the passing of his
wife, who was declared ‘brain dead’ by doctors in December.
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"I
was once like you. I was once told that aborting my children was the
answer to my life. I was once told that my boyfriend too would have to
drop out of the University he attended, and I wouldn’t be able to attend
the following year after I graduated from High School."
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At
approximately 20 weeks into her pregnancy, Robbyn Blick and her husband
Josh, a youth pastor at Alpine Chapel in Lake Zurich, received the most
difficult news of their lives: their son was diagnosed with Trisomy 18,
a genetic condition marked by multiple abnormalities that essentially
equates to a certain death sentence.
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Were there to be no support in the whole history of ethical and moral thought, were there no acknowledged confirmation from medical science, were the history of legal opinion to the contrary, we would still have to conclude on the basis of God's Holy Word that the unborn child is a person in the sight of God. He is protected by the sanctity of life graciously given to each individual by the Creator, Who alone places His image upon man and grants them any right to life which they have.