Nov 06 2007
Hard to Kill: Twin Survives Abortion Attempts
Firstly they tried to sever his umbilical cord to cut off his blood supply, but the cord was too strong.
They then cut Mrs Jones’s placenta in half so that when Gabriel died, it would not affect his twin brother.
But after the operation which was meant to end his life, tiny Gabriel had other ideas.
Read the rest here.
It will be a hard story for the parents to tell later to little Gabriel, but praise God that He’s stronger than the attempts of a few doctors!
Maybe this will humble them a bit, but I doubt it.
Too bad the Mom couldn’t have just “given it up to God’ in the first place. Amazing that Doctors think they can second guess God’s wisdom. Yes, I believe those parents will have some splainin to do during adolescence. Wouldn’t want to walk in their shoes, that’s for sure. Thanks for the link.
The cord too strong to cut??? Some fishy line about cuting the placenta and not having the mom and both babies bleed to death??? Not removing the babies body that they just thought they killid so it could fester and infect both the twin and mother???
This story just does not add up. I think I’ll have to throw it on the fiction pile.
I don’t know anything about the particular news site where I got the link, and so it is possible it is just as fictional as the story in the US news that got Dan Rather fired.
Let me point out something to you, though, that it’s not like they cut mom wide open and had an array of scissors there to cut the umbilical cord. Having cut a few myself (I have six children) I can tell you that in the best of normal circumstances after birth the cord is not the easiest thing to cut with medical scissors.
But trying to do so with a small scalpel viewed through a laproscope would be a bit dicier and quite believable that it didn’t work.
There’s nothing in the story, in addition, that said the baby was *dead* just that they tried to kill him. And getting that baby out without killing the other twin isn’t as simple as you’ve just made it sound, but maybe you have an OBGYN certification to go with your godlike ability to make it rain.
This story, if true (and you’ve pointed out nothing to make me think it isn’t) shows the arrogance of many (not all) modern doctors who think they know more than they actually do.
Much like your own assertion on your blog that you could have the power that God alone has to open up the heavens and make it rain.
Fox News picked up the story a couple of days ago here:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,308438,00.html
I am sorry that you seem to have taken my comments as evil and me as an enemy. I do dislike the modern movement in Christianity to paint knowledge and people who seek knowledge and use it as evil. There are so many good stories of faith out there, I hate to see made up ones that make us fear and hate technology and medicine used.
Most doctors I have known are good and God fearing people, trying their best help their patients. You seem to be trying to get us to hate an entire field of human endeavor on the basis of a rarely used practice only done by a handful of people. Is that fair and honest? Would you have Christianity judged by the few that have twisted it into something evil and ignore all the good that has been done?
As for my blog, I was unaware that electric pumps and water pipes were considered “power God alone has,” I had no idea plumbing was so evil. I will think twice about using my shower. And why would trying to end the horrible effects of droughts be a bad thing? Were we not given the power and responsibility for this planet by God? Why should we not use our abilities to try to prevent suffering?
Note above that another news source picked up the story–it’s not fiction.
And I have no quibble with medicine in general–I have close friends who are doctors. I have a quibble with doctors who assert knowledge beyond what they know and use their power to bring disinformation and death, rather than using their skills to save lives.
And how does plumbing work into your argument at all? I took a lovely, hot shower today and enjoyed it and said a prayer of thanks while I did. But plumbing doesn’t end droughts. It helps take water where there wasn’t any but a nationwide drought is caused by lack of rain–and only God can make it rain.
I want the drought to end also–but only through what God says to Solomon in Chronicles (His people humbling and repenting) will rain come when God shuts up the heavens. We were given power and responsibility but choosing who lives and who dies and making it rain are not among those.
The reason I have reacted so to you is because you saw something that didn’t fit with your view of how things should have worked and you dismissed it instantly as fiction without so much as asking a question or seeing if the report was verifiable.
If you bothered reading my blog, plumbing was all I was talking about, I briefly mentioned weather control as a good long term future goal, but my solution to droughts was to pump desalinated sea water across the nation to areas that lack water.
If you cannot bother to read what I actually write, then please don’t berate me for what you may imagine I may write.
And I still will remain sceptical about the story, too often I have seen Fox and CNN pick up on some interesting sounding urban legend and play it off as real news only to have to admit later it was pure fantasy.
As far as your accusations that doctors push death, like in this case, that is utterly false, the woman in point had full choice about what procedures were to be done. Do you honestly expect me to believe that the doctors strap people down against their will and preform random operations on them?
No I do not expect you to believe that. Nor did I say they did.
But doctors continually set themselves up as experts and who would not follow the advice of an expert? Only a fool, right?
Any doctor willing to kill (”first, do no harm” ring any bells for you?) is willing to assert that he has the right and power to be God–and is therefore not to be trusted to do what is right.
I have worked in the health care field too long to not realize that most people follow whatever their doctor advises with very little questioning, and I have been a patient just enough to know that questioning a doctor too often results in incredulity. Just try asking an anesthesiologist to explain what he’s going to do to knock you out and see how politely he responds.
I’m going to take the last word here. Thank you for your interaction and feel free to comment on other posts in the future.