{"id":304807,"date":"2024-01-08T14:39:02","date_gmt":"2024-01-08T20:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=304807"},"modified":"2024-01-08T11:28:36","modified_gmt":"2024-01-08T17:28:36","slug":"parents-refuse-lethal-injection-donate-organs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/parents-refuse-lethal-injection-donate-organs\/","title":{"rendered":"Parents refuse ‘lethal injection’ abortion, donate organs of baby who survived minutes after birth"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A baby boy born in Missouri last month has made a lasting impact though he only lived for four minutes after birth. His parents have called<\/a> him a “fighter.”<\/p>\n

Baby Alexander was diagnosed at 22 weeks with anencephaly, in which his skull did not properly form. Most children with anencephaly will die shortly after birth, though there has been at least one well-known case<\/a> in which the child survived\u00a0for three years and nine months.<\/p>\n

Alexander’s parents, Abraham and Christine Jacobs, were heartbroken. Already parents to one son, Ezekiel, they were told that if Alexander survived to birth, he would likely die soon after. After researching the condition, the couple decided that they would carry him to term despite Christine’s initial thought that she would have an abortion. Their hope was that Alexander would survive long enough to be able to donate his organs to other children with health conditions once he had passed away.<\/p>\n

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