{"id":155390,"date":"2016-10-26T12:22:35","date_gmt":"2016-10-26T16:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=155390"},"modified":"2016-11-16T02:47:36","modified_gmt":"2016-11-16T07:47:36","slug":"what-does-baby-born-twice-tell-us-about-abortion-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/what-does-baby-born-twice-tell-us-about-abortion-life\/","title":{"rendered":"What does the baby born twice tell us about abortion and life?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>CNN has reported on a baby who was born twice. LynLee Boemer was removed from her mother\u2019s womb at 23 weeks gestation so that doctors could perform a life-saving surgery on her. She was then returned to her mother\u2019s womb and carried to term, at which time she emerged from the womb a second time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LV4l_QWMEqk\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>LynLee\u2019s case raises an interesting question. Could she have been aborted after being returned to her mother\u2019s womb? There is obviously both a legal and moral dimension to this question. Under normal circumstances in the U.S. once a person is born, they are considered a \u201cperson\u201d under the law and are entitled to all the protections of every other citizen. Would this baby fit that criterion? Would this baby lose that status of personhood once reentering the womb?<\/p>\n<p>If the baby loses that status, why? If the baby retains that status, then what is the moral difference between the 23 week Lynlee Boemer in the womb for the second time and any other 23 week baby in the womb for the first time?<\/p>\n<p>Do you see what I\u2019m getting at? If LynLee\u2019s life is precious and worthy of protection at 23 weeks, then every other unborn child\u2019s life is precious and worthy of protection as well. Our laws and and our culture may not recognize that, but they should. Shouldn\u2019t they?<\/p>\n<div class=\"ArticleAd1\"><!-- \/1011927\/LAN_300_by_250_top_article --><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1473179053567-0\" class=\"ArticleAd1a\"><script>\ngoogletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1473179053567-0'); });\n<\/script><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>We are told by the abortion proponents that the debate over abortion is about whether or not women have a right to control their own bodies. That\u2019s a distortion. There is no real disagreement about that. Our disagreement is about whether or not it should be legal to kill someone else\u2019s body.<\/p>\n<p>Abortion proponents want the unborn excluded from the human community so that their lives can be taken for any or no reason at all. It doesn\u2019t take much effort to see the moral bankruptcy of such thinking.<\/p>\n<p>Every life is precious and valuable from conception to natural death. Little LynLee\u2019s life reminds us of that.<\/p>\n<p><em>Editor&#8217;s Note: This article was first published at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dennyburk.com\/meet-the-baby-born-twice\/\">the Denny Burk blog<\/a> on October 24, 2016, and is reprinted here with permission.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN has reported on a baby who was born twice. LynLee Boemer was removed from her mother\u2019s womb at 23 weeks gestation so that doctors could perform a life-saving surgery on her. She was then returned to her mother\u2019s womb and carried to term, at which time she emerged from the womb a second time. 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