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"Inconceivable": A Story
of Courage and Selflessness Part One of Three By Dave Andrusko Good evening and thanks for being part of the discussion. In Part Two David Prentice updates us on the latest on adult stem cells while in Part Three SPUC explains the key role it played in a favorable decision that came down Monday from the British high court. Over at National Right to Life News Today (www.nationalrighttolifenews.org), we have multiple blogs. We begin with how PPFA is desperate to minimize its involvement in abortion (and the money it makes off of it). This is followed by a blog that consists of a smorgasbord of pro-life stories. We then offer an essay from the one and only Nat Hentoff followed by an amazing except from the Philadelphia Grand Jury that investigated abortionist Kermit Gosnell. We end with an encouraging word from "Autos for Life. To do the best job possible I need your feedback on both Today's News & Views and National Right to Life News Today. Please send your comments to daveandrusko@gmail.com. If you like, join those who are following me on Twitter at http://twitter.com/daveha. In September 2009, I wrote a story about Carolyn and Sean Savage which generated a lot of wonderful response (http://www.nrlc.org/News_and_Views/Sept09/nv092109.html). Desiring a fourth child the couple had used in vitro fertilization, the same technique they used in the birth of their third child. (Mrs. Savage had not only had difficulties becoming pregnant, she has also had great difficulty carrying babies to term. Forty at the time, she had experienced several miscarriages after her second child, Ryan was born in 1997. On top of that she was diagnosed with a series of serious medical problems.) Ten days after being told Mrs. Savage was pregnant, the couple learned that, incredibly, the fertility clinic had implanted someone else's embryo in Mrs. Savage. Understandably the couple was shocked and horrified. What made the story of direct importance to us was that when the fertility doctor (whom the couple did not blame) told them they had the option to end the pregnancy, they already made up their mind: no. Now they have written a book about their experience which came out this week: "INCONCEIVABLE: A Medical Mistake, the Baby We Couldn't Keep, and Our Choice to Deliver the Ultimate Gift." Ironically I learned about the new book the same way I learned about their story 18 months ago: watching television on the tread mill at the local gym. Just watching their faces made you cheer for them and their courage. NBC News' Meredith Viera summarized why "termination" that was not an "option" for Mr. and Mrs. Savage: "In their eyes a child's life was at stake." "After all they had been through, we knew we had somebody's very, very wanted child," Carolyn Savage said. "I couldn't see taking that away from another mother. There was just no way." Viera pressed, "Never crossed your mind--that termination was an option?" Sean Savage said their response is "who we are. We value life." I would encourage you to watch the NBC News "Dateline" program at http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/41540261#41540261. Let me add just one comment from the September 21, 2009 story. "We've been rooting for the baby the whole time," Carolyn Savage said in a memorable line. "We moved from a position of shock to a realization that this was actually going to happen. We needed to put the needs of the pregnancy and the child first. It's just been difficult, but we feel we made the right decisions on how to handle it." (Emphasis added.) Please send your
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