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Brain Tumor Abortion · Let's Ask the Mamas!

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  We got a question for American mamma. Dear mama, did you hear about
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  the woman with a brain tumor who refused to have an abortion? Well,
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  let's ask our American mama, mama, and joining is now our American mama.
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  This is this is kind of a difficult story to talk about because it's
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  got such highs and it's got such lows. A woman named Tasha Khan was
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  pregnant, so second child. She's twenty weeks pregnant, and doctors diagnosed her
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  with a malignant brain tumor, fast moving, fast acting, potentially very deadly.
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  And they said, look, we cannot do chemotherapy, we cannot do
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  radiation therapy on you while you're still pregnant. You need to have an abortion
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  so that we can then treat the cancer. And she said, no,
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  I'm going to have my baby and then after that we can treat the cancer.
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  And that baby's almost one and she's still fighting the cancer. It's not
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  good, it's not good for her. But her point wi, this baby
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  had nothing to do with my cancer and it's not going to take the cancer
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  away if I bought my baby, she said, it was just never that's
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  just not going to happen. And honestly, Stephen, same same. I
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  love that quote. Here's the quote she's on Fox and Friend. She said,
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  my baby ultimately had nothing to do with the cancer, So killing her
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  wasn't going to take the cancer away. Yes, And she had the support
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  of her husband, the support of her family, and I'm kind of I'm
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  kind of feeling pretty sure that even if she didn't have the support of her
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  husband and family, she was still going to make that same decision. And
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  as a mama myself, there's just absolutely no way nobody could have talked to
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  me into it, even if my husband said I need you here with our
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  that's already here and right, there is just no way I would just feel
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  like she did that God's going to carry me through the pregnancy, and this
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  child's going to be born healthy, and then we'll deal with it. We'll
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  deal with whatever comes. And she was when you listen to her speak,
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  she was so calm, so matter of fact, so sure in her decision.
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  She's so proud of it. Her husband's so proud. You can see
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  that. There's a kind of a despondent's way with him. You could he's
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  torn up and you can just see it. And I think that even Laura
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  Ingram was like, there's a go fund me page to help them, you
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  know, because now the doctors if said to her, there's nothing else we
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  can do, so they're looking at alternative medicine from her at this point,
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  right, And she knew at the time this is malignant brain cancer, fast
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  acting. It's not something that people usually survive. Right now. That's the
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  other part of this is that even if they had had the even if she
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  had decided to have the abortion, and then they started trying to treat the
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  cancer, there's still no guarantee that would have worked, even at that time,
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  right, So then you kill the baby and the mama dies. Yeah,
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  I just think that she made the right decision. I just I get
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  choked up just thinking about that, because I can't imagine somebody being put in
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  that position, knowing that she was so stoic about it, like this was
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  not even a just it wasn't even a thought to do anything but have the
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  baby. And she said her baby is a miracle, and her baby is
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  as all babies are. I can actually relate to this one more than a
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  lot of our stories tell me because when Wendy was pregnant with Julia, our
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  second child. Yeah, she developed a bone tumor, and we didn't know
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  if that was malignant, bone cancer or something else. At the time,
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  we didn't know. We just knew she had a tumor in her wrist.
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  She was losing function of being able to move her risk back and forth.
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  The tumor was growing, and because she was pregnant and because of the hormones
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  of the pregnancy, was actually making the tumor grow faster while she was pregnant.
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  And we couldn't do anything about the tumor until Julia was born. And
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  of course abortion never ever came across our mind. And so what ended up
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  happening because of that and some other health related problems for Wendy, she started
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  having some liver failure. We went ahead and had Julia delivered two weeks early,
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  okay, and that saw the liver stuff. Yeah, and then Wendy
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  had to have surgery to remove the tumor and repair the bone. Oh my
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  gosh, you do understand. So it's not a brain tumor, but we
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  didn't know. We didn't know if this was malignant or I turned out it
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  wasn't malignant. She's fine. Never had a problem since, but at the
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  time, y'all didn't know. And I will say this, some moms have
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  been putting this put in this position, have made another decision. I don't
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  fault them, No, I truly don't fault them, because they're thinking about
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  their children that they have, right. You know, we're talking about somebody
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  who made a different decision, and I really admire that for them to do
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  that, and I do believe it sometimes when you have to make that decision
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  the mother baby, I do understand why people make the decision that they make.
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  And then I think that, you know, God love them. Uh,
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  they have to believe there's a higher purpose for that, that they'll be
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  able to use that some way to glorify God and to help somebody else through
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  something, because this is not an easy decision when your life is on the
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  line and you've got other children to feed and take care of it. I
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  do understand imagine if it was a single mom, right, you know what
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  I mean? So it's this is this is a story about a woman of
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  faith and conviction that we're celebrating her even though we know that the odds are
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  not good for her, but she gave life to her baby girl. And
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  I and I believe that this husband, uh you know, standing behind his
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  wife, he will raise those children know and love their mother. And I
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  pray for the mirror. I'm a I'm a believer in miracles. I want
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  to believe that she's going to just you know, God is the ultimate healer,
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  and I pray to God he heals her completely and totally. And if
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  that's not the case, I pray that He uses her for his glory.
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  And I encourage you to make decisions based on faith, not on fear.
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  button. Turn out. But thank you so much, thank you,