“Amazingly things are still remaining healthy as far as my wife’s body goes”.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
He recognized that although his wife had been declared “legally brain dead”, there was a miracle of life growing inside of his wife’s body, his own son.
\nI think it can be easy for those of us in the pro-life movement to make blanket statements about how a situation should be handled. These two examples have given me a lot to think about as I reflect on the way we view the rights of preborn children. The Munoz story has been used by people on both sides of the abortion issue to give weight to their arguments. I am simply reminded of the grace needed when dealing with situations that are beyond my comprehension. I cannot imagine the heartbreak that either the Munoz or Benson families have experienced in the loss of their wives and the mothers of their children. What I do know is this: Mr. Benson has the opportunity to share the beautiful story of the start of his son’s life and the choice he made to protect that \u2013 what an incredible gift from a father to a child.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
By Niki Devereaux Two countries, two families, two babies and two very different outcomes. Last November a woman in Texas who was 14 weeks pregnant experienced a suspected pulmonary embolism. About a month later, a woman in Victoria, British Columbia suffered from a fluke random blood leak into her brain \u2013 she was also pregnant. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3014,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[281,277,280,322],"tags":[79,91,234,303,373,306,200,131,270,317],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.weneedalaw.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570"}],"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=570"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/test.weneedalaw.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5325,"href":"https:\/\/test.weneedalaw.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570\/revisions\/5325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.weneedalaw.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.weneedalaw.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.weneedalaw.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}