A British woman has been telling everyone that God is great after Christians gave her the hope to save the life of her child rather than going through with an abortion.
Suzan Briggs, 27, named her now 8-month-old daughter Miracle.
Briggs told the BBC that she had scheduled an abortion because she already had three children and didn’t think she could handle a fourth child. She arrived at the appointment only to be met by members of the pro-life group Abort 67.
“They started preaching the word of God and telling me abortions aren’t good,” she told the BBC. “They told me God would help me and give me strength. I tried not to listen to them, but they were praying for me and I was crying and shaking. The way they talked to me gave me faith and their encouragement made me decide to keep the baby.”
But the group didn’t just talk her out of the abortion and leave her hanging. The group stayed in touch with Briggs, bringing her clothes for the baby and other supplies she needed to get through her pregnancy.
“When I finally saw my daughter, I thought, ‘How could I have wanted to terminate this baby?’” she explained. “Everybody says she’s so cute. When they say that, I thank God I didn’t do it.”
The Centers for Disease Control has reported that over 200 babies are aborted for every 1,000 that are born in America.
Roughly one abortion for every five live births.
The report covers all 50 states for the year 2011. The study found that 730,322 women killed their babies via abortion that year. A study released by Planned Parenthood that year celebrated their ending the lives of 333,964 babies…meaning that the organization killed over 46% of the children who died via abortion.
“Among the 37 areas that reported by marital status for 2011, 14.5% of all women who obtained an abortion were married and 85.5% were unmarried,” the report states. “The abortion ratio was 43 abortions per 1,000 live births for married women and 373 abortions per 1,000 live births for unmarried women.”
The study also showed a shocking amount of teenagers are ending up pregnant and seeking abortions.
“In 2011, adolescents aged … 15–19 years accounted for … 13.5% of all abortions,” it said, “and had abortion rates of … 10.5 abortions per 1,000 adolescents aged … 15–19 years.”
The study did not include the number of women who died in 2011 from obtaining an abortion.
A 30-year-old woman in Sydney, Australia is facing serious charges after police say they threw her newborn son in a roadside ditch and left him to die.
The week old child is listed in “serious but stable condition” at Westmead Children’s Hospital. Cyclists on the M7 Motorway heard the child’s crying from an 8 foot deep drain.
Saifale Nai did not appear in court on the attempted murder charge against her and the court denied bail.
“Police will allege the baby, believed to have been born on Monday (Nov. 17), was placed into the drain on Tuesday,” the police statement on the charges stated.
Nai faces 25 years in prison if convicted.
Police say that it took six men to lift the 440 pound concrete lid over the drain. The baby reportedly was stuffed through a narrow drain opening.
The parents of a baby girl in Buffalo are praising God for sending who they called “two angels” after the massive snowstorms stranded them before they could reach a hospital.
Bethany and Jared Hojnacki tried to rush to a hospital when Bethany went into labor early Tuesday morning. She and her husband ended up stranded on the highway when the snow became too heavy.
The couple ended up being stranded near a woman who was a labor and delivery nurse. Jared told CNN the nurse stayed with his wife throughout her labor and delivered the baby girl at a nearby firehouse.
Stranded at the firehouse was a maternity nurse who was able to take care of the new baby.
“It was kind of incredible,” Hojnacki said on Wednesday. “God really put the people who needed to be in the right spot for us at the right time.”
The baby was named Lucy Grace Johnacki.
A 3-month-old American baby is dead after a terrorist attack in Jerusalem.
Police officials say that an Arab man drove his vehicle into a crowd of people near a light rail stop around 6 p.m. local time. The stop was less than a 1,000 feet from the Israeli National Police Headquarters.
“The vehicle ran over a number of people, including several Americans, as they exited the train, and the suspect was shot when he attempted to flee the scene by foot,” an official told the Jerusalem Post.
“Nine people were injured, three seriously, including an American infant who died after sustaining critical injuries.”
The suspect is reportedly in critical condition with multiple gunshot wounds.
The Arab man comes from a neighborhood where Arabs were angry that nine Jewish families had moved in two days ago.
A Christian woman who gave birth to a child born without eyes says that she is very thankful that she chose to give her child life.
Lacey and Chris Buchanan were thrilled in 2010 when they discovered God has blessed them with a child. As Lacey went through her medical checkups, it was discovered that the baby boy would have a cleft palate and lip.
“Our little boy was diagnosed with a bilateral cleft palate and lip,” she told reporters. “We were crushed. How could this happen to us? Why did this happen to us?”
When the child was born via C-section in February 2011, there was a discovery that even the doctors had not seen ahead of time: the baby was born without eyes.
“Any time we took Christian out in public, people would stare,” Buchanan remembered. “They would whisper behind my back, ‘Look at that baby!’ I even had one girl telling me I was a horrible person for not aborting Christian.”
“I have literally had strangers see a single picture of Christian on Facebook and say ‘If i saw that kid walking down the street, I would murder him.’ They judge that Christian’s life isn’t worth living based on one single picture,” Buchanan writes on her website. “But most of you who know him know how awesome he is and how loved he is and how great his quality of life is.”
Lacey says that God has really used Christian to touch the lives of others and that she knows “I did the right thing by not aborting Christian.”
An Irish couple are speaking out after the birth of their healthy baby boy that doctors had pressured them to abort, claiming that he had abnormalities.
Melanie and Damien Sheehan told the Christian Institute in the UK about the ordeal that began with a 20-week scan of the baby. The doctors said that the baby had “severe abnormalities” such as the brain and the spinal cord not being formed.
“They felt that the child wouldn’t survive birth and if it did, it would be so profoundly disabled that, their words were, ‘it would have no quality of life,’” Melanie recalled. “I was put under immense pressure to go ahead with the abortion.”
“I had phone calls to my mobile and my house phone to tell me how many days, weeks that I had left till my 24-week cut-off [to have an abortion],” she continued. “Whenever we went to appointments, the nurse in charge of the consultant would introduce us as ‘the couple who was continuing with the pregnancy against medical advice.’ We were made to feel that we were doing something terribly wrong by wanting to keep our baby.”
Their baby Joshua was born completely healthy.
“The doctors said that Joshua would be incompatible with life, and now he is sixteen weeks old and he’s brilliant,” Damien said. “He’s doing everything that he should be doing. He’s the best thing that’s happened to our family. We couldn’t imagine our family without him now. Just to see the joy and the love that he brings to the house.”
A baby that was thrown into a trash dumpster by her 13-year-old mother is in good condition after being rescued by movement and rustling in a dumpster.
A man who was looking for recyclables in a dumpster at the Sunnyside apartment complex in Merced, California around 6 a.m. heard some rustling in the trash. At first he thought it was some kind of scavenger animal but when he saw it was a baby he began screaming.
The infant was covered in trash, gnats and flies. Jimmy Alvarez scooped up the child, cleaned her and wrapped her in his T-shirt until he could contact authorities.
“I think she was going to die if we had not found her,” Annett Alvarez told KRCA.
The Los Angeles Time says police tracked down the girl through tips from the public. The mother of the teen said she did not even know her daughter was pregnant. The teen has not yet been charged with any crime but is in the care of Child Protective Services.
A Maine mother is fighting the state to stop them from letting her baby die.
Six-month-old Aleah Peaslee was shaken so badly by her father Kevin that she initially went into a coma from a severe brain injury. While in the coma, doctors said the baby had little chance of survival and the family agreed to a do not resuscitate order.
The baby was taken off a ventilator and placed in her mother’s arms with everyone expecting her to pass into glory.
Instead, the baby kept breathing and improving in the arms of her 18-year-old mother, Virginia. Days later, the baby came out of the coma. Virginia asked for the DNR to be lifted for her child and the hospital refused saying that the baby still had brain damage. Then the government stepped in.
The Maine Department of Health and Human Services kept going to court until they found a judge that would give them the power to keep the DNR in place. They claimed “neither parent can be counted on to be physically or emotionally available to make the necessary informed decision when needed.”
The Alliance Defending Freedom is standing up with the mother.
“The state is effectively arguing that this mom isn’t fit to make medical decisions for her child simply because she wants the child to live,” ADF Senior Counsel Steven Aden said. “No one has declared this mother an unfit parent, yet the government wants to take her place. The Maine Supreme Judicial Court should reaffirm Mainers’ interest in life, parental rights, and the integrity of the medical profession by reversing the lower court and restoring this mom’s full rights to make medical decisions on her daughter’s behalf.”
Maine’s Governor Paul LePage has said he will defend the life of the baby even if he has to defy the state’s Supreme Court.
A man who reportedly was “fed up” with his infant son’s crying bit the nose off the child.
Joshua Cooper, 18, also caused the child to suffer a fractured skill and a brain hemorrhage.
Doctors at North Bay Medical Center made the determination that the child’s nose had been severed after the baby was rushed in bleeding from the face. A full examination determined the other injuries.
The child was rushed to Oakland Children’s Hospital for his severe injuries.
Police took Cooper into custody and charged him with child cruelty and aggravated mayhem.
