Why I Am Pro-Life
By Pastor Jim Feeney

My wife Mickey was several months pregnant and was hemorrhaging badly. We raced to the hospital, where her obstetrician met us at the emergency room. After a brief exam, the doctor told me, “Jim, it’s not good. Yesterday, during Mickey’s office visit, I heard the baby’s heartbeat, but there is none today.”      
           
On the reasonable assumption that Mickey had miscarried, the doctor arranged to have her moved to the operating room for the needed D&C. But first — thank the Lord! — he suggested an ultrasound to be absolutely certain that the unborn baby had expired. There we had the shock of our lives!
           
Right there on the ultrasound screen, clearly visible even to our untrained eyes, was our baby, alive and well and kicking about in the womb — a little, tiny, moving (and quite alive!) human being.
           
Then we noticed a dark oval on the ultrasound screen, just above our living baby. And that explained the hemorrhaging. It was the deceased twin of our living baby. This precious little one had apparently expired in the womb before developing. The technical term used by the doctor was a “blighted ovum.”
           
The doctor succeeded in controlling the bleeding and sent us home. Six months later Mickey delivered our son John, who at the time of this writing is an honor student in college. All because a doctor had a “hunch” and decided to do an ultrasound before the needed D&C — a procedure which unwittingly would have killed John. That obstetrician’s ultrasound hunch saved our son’s life!
           
Thank you for taking the time to read this testimony. It will help you to understand why I am avidly "pro-life" rather than "pro-choice". What did I see on that sonogram screen? I saw a tiny, moving, living child. I saw little, developing arms and legs. I saw motion, moving, kicking. I saw a human being! Very little, yes, but clearly, unequivocally a human being.

Jim Feeney is the Pastor at South Valley Church in Phoenix, Oregon.  He and his wife have four children.  This article  has been reprinted with permission and is the complete text is available at www.jimfeeney.org/pro-life.html