{"id":162804,"date":"2017-02-21T16:39:05","date_gmt":"2017-02-21T21:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=162804"},"modified":"2017-02-22T09:16:45","modified_gmt":"2017-02-22T14:16:45","slug":"meet-noah-wall-boy-without-brain-talks-counts-goes-to-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/meet-noah-wall-boy-without-brain-talks-counts-goes-to-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Noah Wall: ‘The boy without a brain’ talks, counts, and goes to school"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Last year, Live Action News brought you the story of Noah Wall<\/a>, a little boy with spina bifida who has truly defied all expectations. Noah’s parents found out at three months\u00a0gestation that Noah had spina bifida, chromosomal abnormalities, and hydrocephalus. Only 2 percent of his brain tissue was present, and doctors said he would die before birth, or shortly after. They were repeatedly encouraged\u00a0to have an abortion — but Noah’s parents refused.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were offered termination five times,\u201d Rob Wall, Noah’s father, said. \u201cIt was never an option for us. To me, we wanted to give Noah that chance of life.\u201d Still, with the grim diagnosis before them, Noah’s parents planned for the worst. They planned his funeral before he was born, and expected to have to say goodbye to their sweet boy soon.<\/p>\n

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