The Works of God

In the journal Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy, researchers Susana Aguilera, Peter Soothill, Mark Denbow, and Ian Pople found that 72% of the women in their study chose to abort their children with spina bifida upon diagnosis.

The Mayo Clinic describes the consequences of spina bifida this way:

Fortunately, with the proper medical care, children with spina bifida can lead active and productive lives. Most are successful in school and many are actively involved in modified sports activities despite their physical challenges. Twenty-year follow-up studies of children with spina bifida show they enter college in the same proportion as the general population, and many are actively employed. With recent advancements in care for these children, their prognosis continues to improve.

Joe Eaton, the young man who wrote the very helpful statement about God’s sovereignty over suffering that was posted on Saturday, was born with spina bifida.

Parents, please, let those babies live.

My frame was not hidden from you,
when I was being made in secret,
intricately woven in the depths of the earth.
Your eyes saw my unformed substance;
in your book were written, every one of them,
the days that were formed for me,
when as yet there was none of them.

Psalm 139:15-16