This Telegraph (U.K.) report about a baby surviving abortion actually has several noteworthy storylines. The first, of course, is the wonderful news that the baby lives. Despite the intentions of the parents and the hospital abortion system to kill the child, he miraculously made it.
But there are other elements of this story that are anything but wonderful. Take a look:
1) The child was conceived even while his mother was taking contraceptives. This dramatically emphasizes the medical fact that "breakthrough ovulation" occurs despite the contraceptive intent of birth-control pills and devices. And with ovulation comes the possibility of conception. However, these drugs and devices also act post-conception; that is, they negatively effect the cervical lining of the womb, making it unable to support a newly-conceived child. These abortifacient properties of the "pill," Depo-Provera, Mirena, the I.U.D., and so on are not openly discussed but, count on it, they are quite real. The Physician's Desk Reference and even the drug manufacturer's descriptions of their product spell it out.
Therefore, the story of this infant is even more dramatic than it seems upon the first reading for the tough little guy cheated death not once, but twice! For before he could escape the brutality of the hospital abortionist, he had to first survive the "backup" abortifacient effects of the pill.
2) Another noteworthy detail of the story is that the parents of the baby are not married. Indeed, they were not married when their two other children were born. This situation, of course, is common enough in our day but mere commonality cannot dispel the negative spiritual, psychological, economic, and social consequences that have resulted from Western culture's abandonment of traditional marriage.
3) And finally, the mother's own words must be carefully observed for what they reveal about the sheer irrationality of abortion, a distortion of logic and natural emotion that makes the deliberate "terminating" of one's child somehow more acceptable than "losing" it.
Miss Percival said: "Deciding to terminate at eight weeks was just utterly horrible but I couldn't cope with the anguish of losing another baby. "I couldn’t believe it when the doctor said I was still pregnant, this was the baby I thought I'd terminated.
"At first I was angry that this was happening to us, that the procedure had failed. I wrote to the hospital, I couldn't believe that they had let me down like this. They wrote back and apologised and said it was very rare."
