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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