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When I was watching the college football championship game between Florida and Oklahoma, I thought about what an amazing player Florida’s quarterback Tim Tebow is and the tremendous story his life has been. He won the Heisman Trophy last year as the best college player and finished second this year. Tim is known as a very strong Christian, an inspirational speaker, and team leader. He has gone on several mission trips throughout the world and has been the role model for many, either in or out of sports.

If his parents would have followed the doctor’s advice, he wouldn’t even be here. In 1985, his family was living in the Philippines doing mission work when just before becoming pregnant with Tim, his mother, Pam, fell into a coma. She contracted amoebic dysentery, a bacteria transmitted through contaminated drinking water. Amoebic dysentery is the leading cause of death in the Philippines. On her road to recovery, she received a series of strong medications. Pam discontinued the medications when she discovered the pregnancy, but doctors told her that there were problems with the fetus. Later doctors informed her that the placenta had detached from the uterine wall, a condition known as placental abruption, which can deprive the fetus of oxygen and nutrients. Pam’s doctors expected a stillbirth and told her that she should get an abortion, but because of her faith, she decided to keep the child. Tim’s dad, Bob Tebow, said, “God, if you want another preacher in this world, then give him to me, and I will raise him.” Tim was born on August 14, 1987, skinny and malnourished, but otherwise healthy.

If you think about it, because of a court case, there are quite a few accomplished people born since 1973 who could very easily have been aborted. In the case of Doe v. Bolton, which was a companion case to Roe v. Wade in 1973, the Court stated that a woman may obtain an abortion after viability, if necessary to protect her “health.” The Court defined “health” as physical, emotional, psychological, familial, and the woman’s age. In other words, the woman’s health aspect could cover almost any reason for abortion. A woman could say that her child would cause her stress, or she is not ready to have a family, and that would be sufficient.

Larry Page and Sergey Brin, co-founders of Google, were born in 1973 after the court cases were decided. These brilliant minds could easily have been vanquished on a whim, if their parents had so decided.

Tiger Woods will probably go down in history as the best golfer of all time. If his parents had just thought that he was going to cause emotional stress on them, they could have easily had him aborted.

Obviously, many famous people, such as Angelina Jolie, Peyton Manning, Reese Witherspoon, Beyonce, Kobe Bryant, etc., who were born in the last 35 years, could have been killed before birth.

There have been quite a few accomplished people throughout history that because of circumstances surrounding their birth, many believe an abortion would have been justified. There’s a well-known story about a woman that had tuberculosis and a man that had syphilis. Together they had four children. Their first child was born blind. The second child was stillborn. The third child was deaf and dumb, and their fourth was born with tuberculosis. When she was pregnant with their fifth child, many in today’s society would think that an abortion would have been appropriate. That fifth child was Beethoven.

In the world today we have thousands, if not millions, of people that are not as well known, but since they weren’t aborted, they have had an inspirational impact on those around them. The story of Dick and Rick Hoyt in the following video is a testament to that:

There are many examples of great accomplishments from the famous and not-so-famous that have had a positive influence in our world. How many other people could have been an inspiration to us if they were just given the chance to be born?
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