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Granny Smith
Guest
Shouldn't this Leeann Phelan right to choose be commended?
She chose to let her baby live.
When Leeann Phelan was told her unborn baby had an incurable brain abnormality, she faced an agonising decision. Doctors said he would be stillborn or severely disabled and advised her to have an abortion.But Miss Phelan and her partner Stephen Crane stoutly refused and carried on with the pregnancy. Now at six months old, tests have proven that little Jayden was wrongly diagnosed and is a fit and healthy little boy.Due to pregnancy complications he had to be induced 13 weeks early, and bravely fought for life. At 23 weeks, he was one week short of the current abortion limit of 24 weeks, which was set with the received medical wisdom that babies born that premature do not survive.
Last week MPs defied public opinion and voted to keep the current six month abortion limit, despite pressure to cut it to 22 or even 20 weeks. Last night a pro-life group said Jayden's birth 'flew in the face of the government's denial that babies do not survive if born before 24 weeks.' Miss Phelan, 23, said: 'We got the results on Friday and the doctors found he was not suffering from this syndrome.'We are delighted but it makes my blood run cold to think we could have aborted him and they got that wrong.'They told me to get rid of him, but I said no from the start.
'I don't believe in abortion and said "It is my baby, I don't care what's wrong with him, he will be treated the same as my daughter".
Dr Peter Saunders, from the Pro Life Alliance Alive and Kicking, said: 'Mistakes are made in prenatal diagnosis and pressure is then put on parents to abort.
'Jayden's survival underlines how wrong Parliament's decision last Tuesday was in not reducing the time limit to 22 or 20 weeks.
She chose to let her baby live.
When Leeann Phelan was told her unborn baby had an incurable brain abnormality, she faced an agonising decision. Doctors said he would be stillborn or severely disabled and advised her to have an abortion.But Miss Phelan and her partner Stephen Crane stoutly refused and carried on with the pregnancy. Now at six months old, tests have proven that little Jayden was wrongly diagnosed and is a fit and healthy little boy.Due to pregnancy complications he had to be induced 13 weeks early, and bravely fought for life. At 23 weeks, he was one week short of the current abortion limit of 24 weeks, which was set with the received medical wisdom that babies born that premature do not survive.
Last week MPs defied public opinion and voted to keep the current six month abortion limit, despite pressure to cut it to 22 or even 20 weeks. Last night a pro-life group said Jayden's birth 'flew in the face of the government's denial that babies do not survive if born before 24 weeks.' Miss Phelan, 23, said: 'We got the results on Friday and the doctors found he was not suffering from this syndrome.'We are delighted but it makes my blood run cold to think we could have aborted him and they got that wrong.'They told me to get rid of him, but I said no from the start.
'I don't believe in abortion and said "It is my baby, I don't care what's wrong with him, he will be treated the same as my daughter".
Dr Peter Saunders, from the Pro Life Alliance Alive and Kicking, said: 'Mistakes are made in prenatal diagnosis and pressure is then put on parents to abort.
'Jayden's survival underlines how wrong Parliament's decision last Tuesday was in not reducing the time limit to 22 or 20 weeks.