{"id":192400,"date":"2018-12-16T08:39:05","date_gmt":"2018-12-16T14:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=192400"},"modified":"2018-12-13T17:55:20","modified_gmt":"2018-12-13T23:55:20","slug":"friend-tells-parent-get-someone-want-abort-cleft-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/friend-tells-parent-get-someone-want-abort-cleft-baby\/","title":{"rendered":"Dad recalls man’s cruel remark: ‘You should get why someone would abort’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Matt Martin, 28, and his wife Sara have twin boys, born in April of 2018. But one of their sons, Cam, was born with a bilateral cleft lip and palate, among the most common and typically correctable birth defects. But as Martin wrote in an op-ed for Love What Matters, some people still believe this is worth having an abortion over<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Their first son, Jack, was born healthy and typical, but when Cam was born two minutes later, the operating room went silent. “As the doctor held him up, the room went silent,” Martin recalled. “Something was different. The doctors were worried. My wife\u2019s doctor leaned over to a nurse and asked her to call the NICU. \u2018What\u2019s wrong?\u2019 my wife asked. \u2018I don\u2019t know,\u2019 is all I could say.” Martin went to see his babies, kissing Jack and then asking what was happening with Cam. “The nurse, uncomfortable, looked over at the other nurses. She whispered to them. After what seemed like forever, they all turned to me,” he wrote. “\u2018He\u2019ll be okay.\u2019”<\/p>\n

Seeing Cam was difficult for Martin at first. “It was a shock,” he admitted. “I didn\u2019t know what I was looking at. There was clearly something wrong on his face, but I had never seen something like that before. Nobody said anything. The nurse put him in my arms. He cried and cried, and all I wanted to do was help him. I have never in my life felt so helpless.”<\/p>\n

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Well, my little guy had his first surgery today! He\u2019s small, but one of the strongest people I know. – \u201cDon\u2019t let them look down on you because you are young.\u201d 1 Timothy 4:12 \u2014 #cleftpalate #cleftlip #cleftstrong #cleft #beardeddad #beardpower #beardedlife #beardsofinstagram #beardgang<\/a><\/p>\n

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