Mandy Baker Johnson

Let me tell you about a young woman I admire tremendously.  I don’t actually know her, but I expect to meet her one day.  Her name is Jessica, she’s married with a young son.  Last November she was diagnosed with throat cancer, and needed treatment immediately to have any chance of overcoming the disease.  But Jessica was also three months pregnant with her second child.  Cancer treatment would severely harm or even kill the little one.  Doctors advised her to have an abortion so that she could start her life-saving treatment.

If Jessica was your friend, what would you advise her?

I’ll let Jessica’s husband Clint tell you their story.

I came across this great pro-life advert from Pampers via Twitter recently.  You have to watch it, it’s great!

Antonia Senior – writer, feminist and pro-choice activist – wrote a recent article in the Times stating her belief, following the birth of her daughter, that ‘a fetus is a life’.  She writes heart-warmingly:

My daughter was formed at conception, and all the barely understood alchemy that turned the happy accident of that particular sperm meeting that particular egg into my darling, personality-packed toddler took place at that moment.  She is so unmistakably herself, her own person – forged in my womb, not by my mothering.

Sadly however, Senior is still very much pro-choice despite her now firm and outspoken belief that human life begins at conception.  Read R Albert Mohler’s comments here.

Brave words from JoAnne Cascia of New Jersey, America. At twenty six weeks’ gestation, her baby was diagnosed with thanatophoric skeletal dysplasia. This is a lethal form of dwarfism affecting the ribs, making them too small for the baby’s lungs to develop properly. Doctors encouraged her to abort her baby but all she could think was: ‘I’m his mother. My job is to protect him.’ JoAnne carried her baby to term and delivered a beautiful baby boy. She had a precious hour and a half with him before he died.

Read JoAnne’s moving story, and those of four other women who made the courageous choice to carry their seriously ill unborn babies to term here.