Life trumps choice
From Fox News:On a somewhat related note, Shannon blogged on Why I Am Pro-Life today:Many mothers cherish the first kicks they feel from their unborn babies.
But unknown to one U.K. mother, the kicking she felt from the twins growing inside her actually saved her life, according to a report from the Daily Mail.
Michelle Stepney, 35, said her twins Alice and Harriet, now age 13 months, were a lively pair in the womb. At the time, however, she had no idea that constant kicking she felt actually dislodged a tumor that had formed on her cervix and, according to doctors, saved her life.
Shortly after becoming pregnant, Stepney of Cheam in South-West London was taken to the hospital after suffering what was believed to be a miscarriage. Soon doctors realized she was still pregnant, but had developed life-threatening cervical cancer. Stepney declined to have an abortion and doctors at the Royal Marsden Hospital in London agreed to give her reduced chemotherapy in the hope of stopping the cancer spreading during the pregnancy.
But it wasn't the chemo that ultimately saved Stepney.
"I couldn't believe it when the doctors told me that the babies had dislodged the tumor," she said. "I'd felt them kicking, but I didn't realize just how important their kicking would turn out to be. I owe my life to my girls, and that's why I could have never agreed with a termination."
I think everyone would find her analysis thought-provoking, whether or not you agree. And there was also a civil discussion from differing viewpoints in the comments section (not for very young readers).The precedent is set. When our right to choose bumps up against the right of another to exist peacefully, our choice is blocked by civilized law.
And it is with this in mind that I realized, as I came to terms with the validity of the human-ness of a embryo and fetus, that I had to accept there was a moral point at which a "woman's right to choose" ended. Her right to decide what to do with her body bumps up against the right of that baby's right to exist.
The only place I could arrive after looking at the medical/legal/social/civil/constitutional issues was that something had to give. A woman's right to choose an abortion cannot logically co-exist with a embryo/fetus' right to be born.
Simply put, life trumps choice.
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