Baby Survives Just 15 Minutes After Birth But Touches Family Who Refused to Abort Her

National   |   Carole Novielli   |   Sep 19, 2014   |   11:10AM   |   Washington, DC

Bonnie and Phil Walker discovered that their unborn child might die at birth and so doctors offered them an “option” which they found shocking.

During a routine scan, their daughter Grace was diagnosed with a serious birth defect called anencephaly, in which a baby is born without parts of the brain and skull. They were told it was therefore not a “viable” pregnancy and were offered an abortion within the week.

“It was that blunt”, said Bonnie Walker, who has four older children with husband Phil. He added: “There should never be a choice like that.”

Grace was born alive and the couple described that moment as “Happy sad tears.”

She survived about 15 minutes but they say those minutes touched them deeply.

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“There’s a purpose for every life, no matter how short,” Said Bonnie, “the wrong choice would have been to take her away without ever having seen her face.”

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Phil called his daughter an angel, “We see her as a gift from God.”

Phil said that the reason they called their daughter Grace was that, “by the grace of God we had this time with her.”

LifeNews Note: Carole Novielli is the author of the blog Saynsumthn, where this article originally appeared.