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Tim Tebow’s mother and the abortion option

    This letter is in response to the Jan. 27 AP article, “Anti-abortion ad may air at Bowl.” The ad would recount the story of Pam Tebow’s pregnancy and how she had become sick during a trip to the Philippines and ignored a recommendation by doctors to abort her child, and then she later gave birth to [college football star son] Tim.
    The point viewers may not get is, it was a decision she was able to make between herself and her doctor, not a law outlawing abortion that made the decision for her.
    Her decision had a good outcome. This does not always happen. Some babies are born with severe disabilities. And in the days when abortion was outlawed, an all-too-common scenario was an illegal procedure not performed by a doctor, which would result in death to the woman.
    The question of when an embryo becomes a baby is not only a scientific one but also a human one. And consideration needs to be given to the thought that an embryo is viable when the person carrying it and the society into which it will be born can take care of it, whether it is normal or has severe disabilities.

    SANDRA NATALE
    Wilton