A great story from LifeNews.com:
Heisman Trophy Winner Tim Tebow Could Have Been a Victim of Abortion
by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
December 9, 2007
New York, NY (LifeNews.com) — University of Florida quarterback Tim Tebow became the first sophomore in the history of the NCAA to win the coveted Heisman Trophy as the best football player in the nation. However, Tebow’s accomplishments may never have been supported had his mother followed a doctor’s recommendation to have an abortion.With 29 passing touchdowns and 22 rushing touchdowns, Tebow displayed the kind of versatility that has become more valued at the quarterback position.
Pam Tebow and her husband were Christian missionaries in the Philippines in 1985 and they prayed for “Timmy” before she became pregnant.
Unfortunately, as the Gainesville Sun reports, Pam entered into a coma after she contracted amoebic dysentery, an infection of the intestine caused by a parasite found in a contaminated food or drink.
The treatment for the medical condition would require strong medications that doctors told Pam had caused irreversible damage to Tim — so they advised her to have an abortion.
As the Sun reported, Pam Tebow refused the abortion and cited her Christian faith as the reason for her hope that her son would be born without the devastating disabilities physicians predicted.
Pam ultimately spent the last two months of her pregnancy in bed and, eventually, gave birth to a health baby boy in August 1987.
As she told the newspaper, Pam was not surprised that her son would be up for the Heisman despite no underclassman receiving the award since its inception in 1933.
“The combination of Timmy’s God-given talent, hard work, character and leadership have made a mark on and off the football field,” she said.
As prominent researcher Joel Brind writes in a new LifeNews.com editorial, doctors are frequently telling women they should consider abortions when confronted with various medical situations affecting their health.
Yet, as he notes, physicians can successfully treat both mother and child without suggesting that the baby be killed to spare a mother’s life.
Because Tim Tebow was spared, he’s wowed a nation by his athletic skill and, at his younger age, has an opportunity to become the second person to win two Heisman awards.
Oh my gosh … that makes me cry. Can I cuss? Where in the hell do doctors get off? Sorry, it seems like in so many cases that it’s just easier for the doctor to murder an innocent rather than do their freaking job and save lives. It might be a little more work but I think the end result is worth it.
If I was that kid (he’s probably not as vicious as myself) I would be finding that doctor and saying, “Remember me? I’m that little baby you thought would be better of dead. Guess you were WRONG!”
Mothers need to buck up and take a stand against this crap. When a doctor advises you to have an abortion, slap the living crap out of him. Hey, play the hormone card, after all you’re pregnant.
Tammi, I’m cracking up at that last line. You’re on a roll this week with your parenting advice.
Seriously, though - WTF? Okay, I can understand abortion if it’s you or the kid and the kid might not make it anyway, or the kid is basically dying during delivery or something awful like that. It happens - like once in a freakin blue moon.
Now, as an able-bodied person, I don’t understand what it would be like to go through life disabled or disfigured… but did these murderous morons miss the part where 1) plastic surgery will take care of most disfigurements; and 2) modern medicine will take care of a lot of disabilities? Aren’t these the same people who are screaming that we need to use stem cells to help out the disabled folks? Okay, we’ve gotten adult stem cells to revert into pluripotent cells; now, will y’all PLEASE stop trying to kill everyone who has yet to exit the womb?
Let’s not forget the most important part: yes, the kid MIGHT be disabled. Maybe life as a disabled person really, really sucks. But does it suck worse than being dead? Usually, no - otherwise, disabled people would be killing themselves right and left. How about a little bit of CHOICE for those kids - like the choice of whether or not to be alive? The doctor isn’t making a medical decision; he is saying, “Your child’s quality of life is going to be so bad as to be worse than never being born.” That’s not within his training, expertise, or wisdom.
Final thought: talk about that mom getting everything back. She’s not saddled with guilt about an abortion; she’s proud, every time she sees her son, for standing up to her doctor and knowing that he could lead a happy, productive, meaningful life. He did so, and in spades. With a mom like that, though, it’s not a surprise.