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Breakpoint

The Point: Smallest Baby Born in the U.K.

Breakpoint

Colson Center

News, Religion & Spirituality, News Commentary, Christianity

4.82.8K Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2022

⏱️ 1 minutes

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Summary

Weighing just 11 ounces, newborn Hannah Stibbles is considered the smallest baby born in the U.K.—certainly in the last 20 years.  

Glasgow doctors told Hannah's parents she had "next to no" chance of survival, but delivered her by C-section anyway. For Hannah's mother, 17-year-old Ellie Patton and her partner Brandon, Hannah became a living miracle.  

"She came out fighting for her life and proved everyone wrong," says Ellie. "She is a wee smasher."  

Hannah's survival—and the natural joy so many feel at her fight for life—are just another moral paradox for those who maintain that the unborn aren't fully human. It's a fiction that is getting harder to maintain. 

Though the Roe v. Wade decision considered birth at 25 weeks "unviable," science is continually reassessing that criterion—and reaffirming what we should have known all along: It's a fantasy that the unborn aren't alive and human  
Hannah, and every child born or unborn, are worth fighting for. 

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0:00.0

Another story that proves the unborn are worth fighting for.

0:03.0

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street with the point.

0:05.2

Weighing just 11 ounces, newborn Hannah Stibbles, is now considered the smallest baby ever

0:09.7

born in the UK, certainly in the last 20 years.

0:12.7

Glasgow doctors told Hannah's parents she had next to no chance or survival, but delivered

0:16.6

her by C-section anyway.

0:18.0

But for Hannah's mother, 17-year-old Ellie Patton and her partner Brandon,

0:21.4

Hannah has become a living miracle. She came out fighting for her life and proved everyone wrong, says

0:25.6

Ellie. She's a we-smasher. Hannah's survival and the natural joy so many feel at her fight for

0:30.6

life are just another of the moral paradoxes for those who maintain that the pre-born aren't fully

0:35.5

human. It's a fiction. It's getting harder to maintain.

0:38.4

Where the Roe v. Way decision considered birth at 25 weeks on viable, science is continually

0:43.1

reassessing that criteria and reaffirming what we should have known all along. It's just not true

0:48.1

to think that the pre-born aren't fully alive and fully human. Hannah and every child born or unborn are worth fighting for. I'm John

0:56.5

Stone Street.

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