Good Mom
January 13, 2005
Here's a poignant story:
VANCOUVER, January 12, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Gabriele Helms, an assistant professor of English at the University of British Columbia died on New Years Eve of breast cancer, but not before giving life to her much-awaited daughter who was born at 26 ½ weeks just before her mother’s death.
In Canada it is routine for pregnant women diagnosed with cancer to abort, but Helms’ friends said that being a mother was her first priority. …“She was in excruciating pain but she was still elated about her pregnancy. I saw her during her stay in the hospital and she was always putting her hand on her stomach because she could feel the baby by that time. In (Gabi’s) obituary, it says she chose her daughter over herself. She did that because she wanted the child so much…”
Read the rest. Hat tip to The Corner.