URGENT: Pray for the families of the victims of the mass shooting in California AND for those recovering from their injuries.
His mother Sharran Sutherland shared intimate photos of her “perfect” little boy in a Facebook post on October 12, which would have been his due date, hoping to show the humanity of the baby in the womb. The post went viral, attracting more than 36,000 likes, shares and comments. Since her story was picked up by the Mirror, she says she has many people have been reaching out to her on messenger – including women saying they have been inspired to keep their babies.
My baby, not medical waste
Mrs Sutherland, a mother of 11 from Fair Grove, Missouri, wanted to prove that Miran was “a real” baby, after the doctor called him “medical waste”. “I was so angered by her calling my baby a ‘fetus’,” she said. “I couldn’t believe she would insinuate he was medical waste. I was so angered by that.”
Perfect
She also wanted to share what unborn babies actually look like. “I just couldn’t believe how perfect everything was on him.” Mrs Sutherland said. “His ears, his tongue, his gums, his lips. I couldn’t believe it. “You have those baby books that show you diagrams of a baby in utero but he didn’t look like anything I had ever seen,” she went on. “I was just filled with such awe and amazement with him. He just needed to continue maturing and growing and developing. It blew me away. It was an incredible feeling. It’s really hard to describe.”
Abortion industry dehumanising babies
She also said that society’s contradictory attitudes towards the unborn make it more difficult for women who lose babies to miscarriage. “This world has done a great job at dehumanising unborn babies. The abortion industry has done a great job at that but it doesn’t just affect women who are getting abortions.
“It affects women who have lost their babies too – because the world doesn’t view their children as babies,” she said. “So when a woman loses her unborn child she’s not able to grieve in the same way as a woman who gave birth to a baby that dies after being born. When a woman loses her unborn baby it’s almost like you don’t speak of it. A woman goes through it alone and I believe that’s because other people don’t recognise it as a human, as a baby. “This isn’t just about a woman grieving over her baby and not being able to give her baby life, it’s about not recognising that this is a baby. It’s just a tiny baby.”
Changing hearts
When Mrs Sutherland shared the intimate photos of her baby boy online, showing his face and tiny fingers and toes, she wrote: “How can a person deny not only my little boy’s humanity but all other babies as young as him and kill them and in such a horrific way? I am hoping that by sharing these pictures of my precious little boy that it might just make one person who is contemplating abortion decide to let their child live.”
It seems that Miran’s short life and death have indeed helped others to chose life. Mrs Sutherland told the Mirror that a friend “was going to get an abortion because she and the father were young and he wanted her to abort. But she had seen my pictures of Miran, and when she did she couldn’t go through with it. She couldn’t kill her child.”
Saving lives
After the Mirror article came out, Mrs Sutherland posted: “I suddenly started to get private messages and one just made me so incredibly happy. A lady reached out to tell me she is 14 weeks along, has other children but her and husband weren’t prepared for another. After reading the article she told me she cancelled her appointment that was scheduled for tomorrow!!”
Another woman commented, saying “This post saved mine too, and talking with you made me feel so much better about having my little girl too. You have an amazing family💖💖”
Mrs Sutherland also shared that she has been contacted by many women suffering after an abortion, including those who were coerced into it.
Despite her heartbreak, Mrs Sutherland knows that Miran’s life had purpose and meaning, and has helped others. “I couldn’t believe that he had touched somebody,” she said when her friend chose life for her baby after seeing the photos. “I had hoped for it but if it was someone that close, it was amazing.I thought, if that’s all Miran’s life was meant to do, then so be it.”
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LifeNews Note: Courtesy of SPUC. The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children is a leading pro-life organziation in the United Kingdom.
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"House Democrats May Pass Legislation Trying to Force Americans to Fund Abortions" - Micaiah Bilger, NOV 8, 2018; https://www.lifenews.com/2018/11/08/house-democrats-may-pass-legislation-trying-to-force-americans-to-fund-abortions/
[Praise God that we will have a pro-life Senate that will stop such an evil as what the Democrats have planned.]
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Praying Through the Open Doors World Watch List for persecuted believers:To learn more, please go to -https://www.opendoorsusa.org/take-action/pray/monthly-prayer-calendar/
Praying Through the Open Doors World Watch List for persecuted believers:To learn more, please go to -https://www.opendoorsusa.org/take-action/pray/monthly-prayer-calendar/
Focus for November: Praying for Pakistan -It is No. 5 on the 2018 World Watch List and has almost 4 million believers (out of a general population of 197 million). Converts who gather for worship face great risk. They are followed and monitored, and anyone who meets with them is investigated as well. Throughout November, Open Doors is focusing on strengthening our persecuted family in Pakistan.
November 10 | NIGER - Pray with Pastor Laouali who cares for believers in the city of Diffa. While he was traveling, radicals vandalized his church; his neighbors are too scared to speak up. Pray with him and his family; ask God to protect and embolden them.
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