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The Daily Article

A baby born on an airplane and the miracle of life

The Daily Article

The Denison Forum

Christianity, Daily News, News, Religion & Spirituality

4.9576 Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2021

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

A woman went into premature labor on a flight from Mexico to North Carolina and birthed her daughter on the grounded plane in Atlanta. In The Daily Article for December 2, 2021, Dr. Jim Denison walks us through the secular arguments for why abortion should be legal, in light of the Supreme Court’s case going on, then looks at what the bible has to say about the unborn.

The Daily Article is written by Dr. Jim Denison and narrated by Chris Nichter. Subscribe to the newsletter at denisonforum.org/subscribe.

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This is the Daily Article podcast, published by the Denison Forum for Culture-Changing Christians.

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Now here's today's news, discerned differently.

0:19.6

Around 385,000 babies are born each day worldwide.

0:25.5

On November 14th, Anelia Ecevedo Castaneda was one of them.

0:30.6

She was, however, the only one I know to be born on an airplane.

0:35.3

Her mother went into premature labor an hour into her flight, heading home

0:39.5

to North Carolina from Mexico. A nurse on board helped her for more than three hours until the

0:45.6

plane landed at the Atlanta International Airport. First responders then found the mother lying on the

0:51.8

floor in the back of the plane and decided to deliver the baby there.

0:56.6

When she was born, one of the flight attendants took to the microphone to announce,

1:01.2

We have a baby girl. If the mother had chosen abortion, her baby girl would have become a fetus

1:07.8

and her life would have ended in a legally protected act. If, however, her

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mother had been murdered and the unborn child had died, that child would have been recognized as

1:18.5

a legal victim as well. Whether the baby girl was murdered with her mother, her mother aborted

1:24.5

her, or her mother gave birth to her, nothing whatsoever about Analia herself would have changed.

1:31.4

Herein lies the tragic contradiction inherent in Roe v. Wade and the abortion license it grants.

1:40.8

As you know, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments yesterday regarding a Mississippi law that

1:47.0

bans abortion after 15 weeks. According to CNN, the court seemed poised to uphold the law,

1:54.0

but it is less clear if there is a clear majority to end the right to abortion nationwide.

2:00.0

After the hearing, Fox News's Bill Mears

2:03.6

suggested the court would support Mississippi's ban and remove the viability standard from Roe as

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