Miracle babies defying abortion narrative

Medical technologies are enabling babies to survive and thrive with serious conditions, despite parents being urged to abort.

This week, Scottish paper the Daily Record covered the story of two-year-old Phoenix, who was diagnosed with spina bifida in the womb.

His mum, Lauren Wark, was told that he would probably never walk and doctors advised that she should consider an abortion.

However, she refused and started researching medical procedures that can be carried out on babies in the womb who have the rare condition.

Lauren travelled to Belgium for state of the art testing before doctors confirmed she was suitable for the NHS funded procedure.

When Phoenix was born seven weeks prematurely he was rushed to a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) where he recovered well.

Lauren told the Daily Record: "Termination was never an option for us and look at him now, look how amazing he is. He is such a motivated wee person...It is amazing and that brings us so much hope."

News also emerged this month of a "miracle" baby in Australia born with a tumour weighing almost twice as much as she did.

Baby Saylor Thomson was born with a rare tumour growing on her tail bone that affects about 1 in every 40,000 live births.

At her mother’s 20-week scan, the tumour was discovered and her parents were told that their daughter had a 25-40% chance of survival.

Saylor was born three months early, and just minutes later, a team of 25 doctors and nurses began an operation.

Saylor's mother, Rachel, said she "cried hysterically" before the operation, which took six hours to complete. She added:

“But being able to hold Saylor in my arms and know she has come through the other side is something special”.

Right To Life UK spokesperson Catherine Robinson said:

“In the UK, if a child were discovered to have such a disability, he or she could be aborted up the point of birth.

"Stories like Saylor’s show that there is always hope though, and that whether or not a baby has a disability, they are still a baby, they are still human, and deserve our love and protection, not abortion”.