by Rhonda Robinson for David Horowitz's NewsRealBlog
When your child is handed a death sentence by a doctor and the family is forced to make decisions about the future, without the help of a crystal ball, nothing is more personal or traumatic.
Several years ago I received a phone call from my close friend Julie, who was in just such a position. She was heart broken, sobbing and desperate. Through tears she explained how she had just returned from a doctor’s appointment. The doctor informed her that her baby had Trisomy 13, a defect that would leave the baby so badly deformed he would not survive birth, and if he did, he would not live but a few hours longer. The financial and emotional toll on the family would be devastating, he warned. There was obviously only one answer: abort the baby as soon as possible.
Due to the “complication” of being a few months into the pregnancy, the doctor offered to take Julie out of state to have the abortion.
Tim Tebow, University of Florida Quarterback and his mother, have their own story to tell and they want to tell it on Super Bowl Sunday. Although no one has seen the ad, opponents are saying it threatens American women’s reproductive rights.
Bill O’Reilly had Jehmu Greene, President of the Women’s Media Center on The O’Reilly Factor to defend American women’s right to “choose” which, she saw as clearly being threatened by the upcoming Super Bowl ad.
I say, it will shed new light on what it means to have the right to “choose.”
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