'Please pass on to your readers how appreciative Karen and I – and the whole family – are for the prayers for Bella,' Santorum told LifeSiteNews. 'But....'
April 22, 2015 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Alfie Hillman is thought to be the only child in Wales with the rare genetic condition mosaic trisomy 18. The rare disorder caused him to be born premature at 28 weeks, weighing just one pound, three ounces. The diagnosis was made when Alfie’s mother, Sharron Swales, was 27 weeks along in her pregnancy. The physicians who delivered the bad news also prompted the boy’s parents to consider an abortion, because they only expected Alfie to live a few minutes after he was born. “It was the hardest thing we’ve been through,” Swales told the South […]
'The phrase ‘incompatible with life’ is not a medical diagnosis: it misinforms parents, it pushes families towards abortion, and it denies those families a chance to spend time with their children, to make memories and to heal.'