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This intense case raises major questions about the humanity of the pre-born child. In Canada, a child becomes legally recognized as such when it emerges from its mother\u2019s womb. Section 223 (1) of the Criminal Code reads as follows: <\/span><\/h1>\n

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• A child becomes a human being within the meaning of this Act when it has completely proceeded, in a living state, from the body of its mother, whether or not<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

  (a)<\/strong>\u00a0it has breathed;<\/span><\/p>\n

  (b)<\/strong>\u00a0it has an independent circulation; or<\/span><\/p>\n

  (c)<\/strong>\u00a0the navel string is severed.<\/span><\/p>\n

  Lynlee\u2019s head was carefully maintained inside the uterus during the operation in order to prevent the uterus from thinking the pregnancy was over, so under Canadian law she did not \u201ccompletely proceed\u201d from the womb.\u00a0 However, it is clear that Lynlee Boemer was a person during her surgery. Otherwise what on earth were the surgeons operating on and striving to save? A clump of disposable cells? Certainly not. And when she was replaced in her mother\u2019s womb, then, did that right to personhood disappear along with the physical sight of her? Could her mother have chosen an abortion after that point? And if not, if her legal right to personhood and life remained, what makes her different than any other baby at 23-weeks gestation?<\/span><\/p>\n

  These are questions abortion supporters don\u2019t want to ask, and don\u2019t want to answer. Even the staunchest defender of a \u201cwoman\u2019s right to choose\u201d gets squeamish in the face of a living baby operated on outside its mother\u2019s body and then placed back in. And so they should \u2013 there is no clearer evidence of the humanity of the pre-born child apart <\/em>from its mother\u2019s body.\u00a0 \u201cHer body, her choice\u201d distracts from the truth that the child may be in the mother\u2019s body, but it is not her body. A separate, growing body, with unique human DNA was in this case being killed by a tumor leaching her vital blood supply \u2013 a tumor that was not affecting the mother\u2019s health. <\/span><\/p>\n

  How long can abortion defenders use the \u201cher body, her choice\u201d rhetoric in the face of this unrelenting scientific evidence? We may be thankful that doctors such as the fetal specialists in this case recognize the value of pre-born children and are willing to use their talents and knowledge to save them. When abortion is not an option, extraordinary, beautiful things can happen.<\/span><\/p>\n

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  In an\u00a0incredible story reported on by CNN, a baby girl underwent emergency surgery to remove a tumor from her tailbone at just over 23 weeks\u2019 gestation. In a 5-hour operation, specialists took her almost completely out of her mother\u2019s womb, removed the majority of the tumor which was killing her, and put her back in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3014,"featured_media":1202,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[277,280],"tags":[305,80,304,303,306,82,246],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.weneedalaw.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1094"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.weneedalaw.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.weneedalaw.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.weneedalaw.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3014"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.weneedalaw.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1094"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/test.weneedalaw.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1325,"href":"https:\/\/test.weneedalaw.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1094\/revisions\/1325"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.weneedalaw.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.weneedalaw.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.weneedalaw.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.weneedalaw.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}