The “Heisman” was awarded to University of Florida quarterback Tim Tebow this year. Sure, passing for 29 touchdowns and rushing for 22 more is pretty impressive. But what most don’t know is that doctors recommended that he be aborted.
From Steven Ertelt(LifeNews) we understand the Gainesville Sun reported Pam Tebow(Tim’s mother) went into a coma after contracting amoebic dysentery. Prior to delivery of Tim, her doctors told Pam that the treatment she received required strong medications that had caused irreversible damage to Tim. They advised her to have an abortion.
The doctors made a big assumption—that the meds would cause unseen damage to her unborn child. And they thought they knew it. What happened to the Hippocratic Oath: “Thou shalt do no harm”? Certainly there were other options.
As the Sun reported, Pam refused the abortion, and hoped that her son would be born without the predicted devastating disabilities. Tim Tebow was born a healthy baby boy in August of 1987.
Receiving the Heisman Trophy says you’re the best football player in the nation. What’s really impressive is Tim could be the second person to win the trophy twice in his college career.
But Tim Tebow’s experience brings to light several good questions. We know that of the 300 million in the present US population, approximately 50 million have been aborted since 1973(Planned Parenthood). That does not include the millions of fertilized embryos of which were disposed, or the millions of fertilized embryos that were rejected by the uterus because an ‘abortifacient’ (e.g., the ‘pill’, RU-486, or ‘morning-after’ pill) was used to make it inhospitable for implantation.
So we know (at least) one out of every 6 people with souls in the US was killed since 1973. The real questions suddenly arise. Which of those that were disposed of, were destined for greatness? Some of those 50 million-plus had to be. Did we abort the person that would discover the cure for MS? For cancer? For AIDS?
Did we abort the person who would prove the existence of the 6th dimension? The one who would successfully harness fusion (sun) rather than fission (nuclear energy), giving cheap power to the masses? The one who would find the secret for extremely long life? The one that could prove, without the shadow of a doubt, that God not only exists, but loves each one of us?
The law of probabilities says we were so close to learning and achieving what humans were likely meant to learn. But we aborted, and disposed. How do we atone for something like that? Most likely there’s still time to change our ways. Not that it matters, but I think Tim Tebow would likely approve.
Kevin Roeten can be reached at roetenks@charter.net or kevin@kevinroeten.us.
