Let the living live

They lied. Lied to protect their tiny daughter, Amillia Sonja Taylor, born October 24, 2006, a mere 21 weeks and six days after her in vitro conception. At birth she weighed under 10 ounces, and stretched a whole 9.5 inches long. The first child of Sonja and Eddie Taylor, from Homestead, Fla., Amillia is among the youngest babies recorded to survive.
The Taylors told the medical doctors at the time of her too-early arrival that Amillia was 24 weeks past her conception date. They lied because they wanted to make sure the medical staff would not assume she was too young to live. They corrected their lie after Amillia proved she could live.
Amillia was conceived by in vitro fertilization “which made it possible to pinpoint her exact time in the womb, and was delivered by Caesarean section,” the Associated Press reported.
“Amillia was born with a mild brain hemorrhage, respiratory problems and digestive problems, but her doctor, William Smalling, said she showed a strong will to live.”
Her parents appeared on Good Morning America (GMA).
“This baby showed signs of being viable at the time of delivery, which means she showed signs that she was mature enough to survive,” Smalling told GMA. “She made efforts at breathing, [an] attempt to cry at birth. So when she was assessed at the delivery, she showed signs that she may have been mature enough to survive, and she proved us right.”
“She’s truly a miracle baby,” Dr. Smalling, a neo-natal expert, told the BBC. “We weren’t too optimistic. But she proved us all wrong,” he added.
Dr. Paul Fassbach, who cared for Amillia since her second day, said, Amillia’s name joins 100 other of the smallest premature babies who survived and now thrive thanks to medical intervention that helped them live.
Ironically, while medical scientists continue to work to improve the survival rate of even the youngest, prematurely born children, on March 27 Alisa LaPolt Snow, the Planned Parenthood lobbyist in Florida, testified before Florida state legislators considering a bill meant to protect a baby born alive after a botched abortion from dying.
The video of her video testimony has gone viral on YouTube. She refused to acknowledge that a breathing child should be given every possible assistance available to ensure it kept breathing and further contended it might be a problematic if the breathing infant were 45 minutes from a hospital.
She carefully stated that an abortion that results in breathing child remains an issue between the patient and the health care provider. When the legislator asked, “I think that at that point the patient would be the child struggling on the table, wouldn’t you agree?”“That’s a very good question, I don’t know how to answer that,” Snow responded.
LaPlot had no answer to the breathing child of an abortion, but for three decades, at least one physician, Dr. Kermit Gosnell of Philadelphia, Penn., had his own answer to that question. He is accused of taking aggressive measures, and dictating to his assistants to do the same, to make sure that no child survived the abortion procedure at his clinic. According to the AP story, “Gosnell is charged in the deaths of seven babies and the 2009 overdose death of a 41-year-old patient. Authorities allege the babies were killed using scissors.”
His trial began five weeks ago and is expected to continue for several more weeks. Already seven former employees have been convicted in the case. One former employee, unlicensed doctor Stephen Massof, has pled guilty to two counts of third-degree murder. Massof testified that Gosnell taught him to cut the necks of babies after they were born to ensure the babies died.
The dichotomy in this ongoing contention to protect the most vulnerable of our nation continues. In one hospital pediatric specialists employ every modern invention and technique possible to sustain the life of the youngest and most fragile of infants. Across the city in an abortion clinic, medical providers could legally make sure that same child did not survive.
In legislative halls at the state and federal capitals, with great dignity and carefully phrased responses, abortion advocates refuse to admit what the courts of Pennyslvania have already acknowledged: Abortion is murder and that little ones like Amillia prove it time and again. Without medical and legislative interference, allowed to stay in utero the full nine months, the 1.2 million children aborted each year would live.
They just need parents as determined as the Taylors and medical support to keep them alive to ensure that they have a chance.


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