Tim survived an abortion, lived 21 beautiful years

January 14, 2019 ( LifeSiteNews ) – It is a sad irony that I spotted the headline in the Irish Times, a newspaper which led the media charge in favor of legal abortion in Ireland: German man who survived abortion dies at aged 21.

“Tim was not supposed to be born,” the Jan. 9 column, written by Derek Scally, begins, “and certainly not to live. Now the man who survived a failed late-term abortion in 1999 has died at aged 21.”

Consider the language being used here, in a newspaper that supported the legalization of abortion on demand. “Survived.” “Failed late-term abortion.” “Not supposed to be born.” It is clear that the writer sees certain facts as obvious: An abortionist intended to kill Tim—who became known as the “Oldenburg baby”—but failed, and thus Tim survived. His existence was predicated on a medical failure.

At twenty weeks gestation, tiny Tim was diagnosed with Down syndrome, and his mother decided she wanted to abort him. But in Germany, abortions after 13 weeks of pregnancy are forbidden by law with the sole exception of instances where the mother says that her physical or psychological health is severely threatened by the pregnancy. In order to qualify, Tim’s mother threatened to kill herself unless she got an abortion, and so a late-term procedure was scheduled.

Fortunately for Tim, the abortionist was sloppy, and decided not to follow the usual protocol of injecting potassium chloride into his heart in order to kill him prior to removing him from the womb. The abortionist figured that Tim wouldn’t survive premature labor, and so assumed that the injection would be unnecessary to accomplish the objective of killing Tim.

It didn’t work out that way, and Tim was born alive weighing 1.5 pounds. The attending physicians assumed that he would die in short order, and wrapped him in a towel so that he could perish in warmth (a procedure known as “comfort care.”) Tim was left alone for nine hours. When the nurses returned for a corpse and discovered a breathing child, the decision was made to give him medical care.

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