Time Immortal

…unknown to one U.K. mother, the kicking she felt from the twins growing inside her actually saved her life, according to a report from the Daily Mail.

Michelle Stepney, 35, said her twins Alice and Harriet, now age 13 months, were a lively pair in the womb. At the time, however, she had no idea that constant kicking she felt actually dislodged a tumor that had formed on her cervix and, according to doctors, saved her life.

Shortly after becoming pregnant, Stepney of Cheam in South-West London was taken to the hospital after suffering what was believed to be a miscarriage. Soon doctors realized she was still pregnant, but had developed life-threatening cervical cancer. Stepney declined to have an abortion and doctors at the Royal Marsden Hospital in London agreed to give her reduced chemotherapy in the hope of stopping the cancer spreading during the pregnancy.

But it wasn’t the chemo that ultimately saved Stepney.

“I couldn’t believe it when the doctors told me that the babies had dislodged the tumor,” she said. “I’d felt them kicking, but I didn’t realize just how important their kicking would turn out to be. I owe my life to my girls, and that’s why I could have never agreed with a termination.”

This woman made a brave choice, choosing not to have an abortion so as not to damage the young lives forming within her. There’s been a number of stories of mothers doing that, but this one has a bit of a twist: it was the decision not to have an abortion that saved this woman’s life. Had she terminated the pregnancy, who knows? Perhaps that tumor would have still been successfully treated…or perhaps, with nothing to knock it free, it would have spread the cancer further into her body.

How many times, I wonder, will the tired arguments of the pro-choicers be revealed as lies before it becomes obvious once again that abortion is nothing less than murder (really, a form of contract killing)?