Baby born alive after an abortion, lived for 10 hours

Loran Denison was pregnant with her fourth child, who was diagnosed with Edwards Syndrome. She had an abortion, but her son was born alive. Doctors didn’t treat the baby, but his heart kept beating for 10 hours as she held him. She named her son Kiyo Bleu.

Denison tells her story:

They told me he had typical Edwards’ Syndrome so would pass away before or just after birth. My boy had a lion heart.

I thought I had done the hard bit when I made the difficult decision to have an abortion, but now it feels ten times worse.

I just want other mums to know in case this happens to them.

I had to watch his heartbeat getting slower and watch his life draining out of him.

You just want to keep your children alive. It was like torture.

None of the doctors thought he would be born alive.

When my partner picked him up after he was born he said ‘his heart is beating’, and they said ‘no way’.

When I took the first tablet on the sixth they said it would stop the pregnancy, heartbeat and everything, so we expected he wouldn’t be alive when he was born.

They didn’t check for a heartbeat before inducing labour, and I wish they had.

I don’t have words for how awful it was…

They said his heart will stop in the next half hour, and I kept ringing the bell to say he was still alive, and I said ‘do you just leave him’ and they said ‘yes.'”

I don’t even have a word for how horrible it feels. There is a person I’ve read about who has survived with Edwards’ Syndrome to 40.

Kiyo Bleu was so strong now I wonder if he would have survived. His heartbeat was so strong you could feel it.

If I had known he would be born alive I probably would have made a different decision.

I thought I was doing the right thing but now I think I have done the wrong thing.”

Katie Pounds “MUM’S AGONY My abortion failed and I had to give birth to a live baby who died 10 hours later – it broke my heart” The Sun 10 May 2021

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Politician describes letters from regretful post-abortive women

While arguing against unrestricted abortion, British pro-life politician John Corrie said in 1979:

“I have received many letters from unhappy women. Many of them bitterly regret having had their abortion and express in their letters the importance of counselling. If only they had known what it all entailed, they would not have gone through with the abortion.”

Fran Amery Beyond Pro-Life and Pro-Choice: The Changing Politics of Abortion in Britain (Bristol: Bristol University Press, 2020) 89

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Number of abortion clinics decreased by 17% between 2011 and 2014

From a report compiled by The National Academy of Sciences:

“The overall number of facilities providing abortions – especially specialty abortion clinics – is declining. The greatest proportional decline is in states that have enacted abortion – specific regulations.

In 2014, there were 272 abortion clinics in the United States – 17% fewer than in 2011 – and 39% of women of reproductive age resided in a county without an abortion provider.

25 states have five or fewer abortion clinics; five states have only one abortion clinic. An estimated 17% of women travel more than 50 miles to obtain an abortion.”

The National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Committee on Reproductive Health Services: The Safety and Quality of Abortion Care in the United States (Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2018) 6

Pro-life laws are closing abortion facilities.

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Severely disabled child had life “full of joy”

Pro-life activist and abortion survivor Claire Culwell wrote about a little girl she took care of who had severe disabilities.

In her book, Culwell wrote about four-year-old Riley–Jane and her mother Gayle. She says of Riley – Jane:

“… Her muscles didn’t function normally; her bones were soft; she had a tracheotomy; she was on oxygen and had a feeding tube.

Gayle said that the doctors didn’t think she could experience a good quality of life. However, despite all her challenges, Riley-Jane’s life seemed full of joy. Her parents wanted to nurture that apparent joyfulness and enable her to live as well as she could. They decided to ask me to be her caregiver as much as my schedule would allow. I was eager to help. Riley- Jane could do nothing for herself. I fed her, bathed her, dressed her, and just tried to help her feel loved and accepted.

Right away I saw the joy that her mother had talked about. As I rocked Riley- Jane, she would grin up at me, communicating without needing to say one word. I wasn’t sure whether she could really see me, but something inside Riley- Jane generated a spirit of happiness that was awe-inspiring. Her vulnerability and trust fulfilled and blessed me more than I could have ever imagined. I saw beauty that radiated from her soul, surpassing the usual physical definition of beauty.

Riley- Jane passed away a few years ago. It wasn’t surprising to see so many people who had been touched by her life – and the lives of her parents – gathered to celebrate her… Her quality of life here on earth defied what the doctors had said, and I am grateful for the opportunity to have been blessed by Riley- Jane.”

Claire Culwell, Lois and Steve Rabey Survivor: An Abortion Survivor’s Surprising Story of Choosing Forgiveness and Finding Redemption (WaterBrook, 2021) 35 – 36

All human life is valuable, even lives lived with a severe disability.

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One in four pregnancies now end in abortion in England and Wales

The Times reported:

“The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said that the share of women who choose abortion is now more than a quarter for the first time as the number rose for the second year in a row.

Figures released this week showed that 25.2 per cent of conceptions in England and Wales ended in abortion in 2019, up from 24 per cent the previous year…

The figures showed that the number of pregnancies ending in abortion went up among all age groups in 2019.

Ten years ago just over a fifth of pregnancies ended in abortion. For women in the second half of their 30s, the proportion of pregnancies ending in abortion has gone up by almost a third over the past decade…

Possible reasons for the rise in the numbers include avoiding disruption to career or lifestyle, or uncertainty about the relationship with the father of the child.”

Neil Johnston “One in four pregnancies ends in abortion in England and Wales” The Times August 06 2021

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Clinic worker talks about living aborted baby holding on to mother

Pro-Choice author Magda Denes quoted an abortion worker who said that two babies were born alive in her clinic in one week:

“There was one week when there were two live births in the same week. And just, you know, there’s this baby crying on the floor while all these women are in the process of trying to deal with their feelings about aborting their babies. One survived for a while.

[Denes] how did the mothers react who gave birth to the live babies?

Well. This one, she didn’t talk much. The mother delivered when there was no one there and there was some period when the mother was holding the baby. And it was grabbing onto her.… She was extremely upset by this whole thing.”

Magda Denes, PhD. In Necessity and Sorrow: Life and Death in an Abortion Hospital (New York: Basic Books inc 1976) 79

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Only 34% of Northern Irish citizens support abortion for any reason

A 2016 survey in Northern Ireland Life and Times found:

“Some 81 percent supported abortion in the event of a foetal abnormality, 73 percent in cases of a possible foetal abnormality and 78 percent in cases of rape or incest…

However, when voters were asked whether they supported abortion simply because a woman did not want the child only 34 percent said “yes”, and 60 percent said “no”.”

Sam Coates “Abortion: pollsters struggle to gauge will of Northern Ireland people” The Times June 02 2018

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Abortionist says abortion is a “tragedy” for women

Abortionist Jane Hodgson said:

“Abortion is nothing but a tragedy for the women who go through it.”

William Dudley Issues on Trial: Reproductive Rights (New York: Thomson, Gale, 2006)

Nevertheless, Hodgson did illegal abortions, then went on to do them when they became legal.

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Pro-Choicer: 30 states would ban abortion if Roe were overturned

Pro-Choice author Rickie Solinger writes:

“Experts have predicted that if Roe v. Wade is overturned, approximately 30 states, where about 50% of women in America live, would recriminalize abortion within a year.”

Rickie Solinger Reproductive Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013) 86

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Indian woman aborts baby because astrologer says child is bad luck

A woman from India gave the following reason for having an abortion:

“When I became pregnant for the second time, my husband injured his leg in an accident. He consulted an astrologer, who said that the (unborn) child may be inauspicious and suggested that we terminate the pregnancy. My in-laws and husband compelled me by saying, “Is your unborn baby’s life worth more than your husband’s?”

P Balasubramanian, TK Sundari Ravindran and US Mishra “Induced Abortion: A Study of Rural Tamil Nadu” in Leela Visaria and Vimala Ramachandran Abortion in India: Ground Realities (Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2007) 268 – 269

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