Are you really using someone's BLOG as a reliable SOURCE?
What a MORON!!
From the book "Gabriel's Story" by Karen Santorum:
"One week later at a routine sonogram, the 20 week old baby in my womb was diagnosed with a defect that is always fatal without surgery. Through our immense heartache came the most basic of parental emotions: We had to save our child. After many tests it was determined our son was eligible for the operation that could save his life. It was a success, but an infection developed in the amniotic sac, and I was rushed to the hospital with a high fever, having contractions. I begged the doctors to stop my labor, but they said it would be malpractice, for I would surely die since these infections are untreatable.
Gabriel Michael Santorum was born at 12:45 AM on Friday, October 11, 1996. He was a beautiful boy. He did not give a cry or open his tiny eyes. We baptized him, bundled him, and held him ever so close. We sang to him, held his little hands and kissed him. Gabriel lived for two hours. In those two hours something simple but profound happened. Rick and I became parents to a newborn baby and welcomed him into our family. That was all….but it was everything. His life was so brief, yet his impact so great. In two hours we experienced a lifetime of emotions. Love, sorrow, regret, joy—-all were packed into that brief span. To have rejected that experience would have been to reject life itself."
Inducing labor to save the life of a woman is in NO WAY, SHAPE, OR FORM “abortion”. Abortion is the willful and direct INTENTIONAL killing of an unborn child.
Even beyond the practice of inducing labor, the removal of an ectopic pregnancy is not “abortion” in that the direct action is to remove a part of the mother’s body with the intention of saving her life. The death of the child is unintentional and indirect and is, therefore, not abortion. In like manner, removal of a cancerous uterus of a pregnant woman is not “abortion” because the intent is to remove a part of the woman’s body, not to kill the child.
It is technically correct to say that Karen Santorum had a septic spontaneous abortion, but that’s a medical term for an INVOLUNTARY event that is different from “induced abortion,” which describes a WILLFUL termination.
Gabriel was born ALIVE and lived for a couple of hours.
The HATE, INTOLERANCE and BILE of people on the left, as witnessed in this thread, is very disturbing.
Updated On: 2/28/12 at 09:45 PM