Heisman Trophy winner Tim Tebow, University of Florida quarterback, might not have even been here to accomplish this achievement, had his mother listened to doctors who advised her to abort him.
From LifeNews:
Pam Tebow and her husband were Christian missionaries in the Philippines in 1985 and they prayed for "Timmy" before she became pregnant.
Unfortunately, as the Gainesville Sun reports, Pam entered into a coma after she contracted amoebic dysentery, an infection of the intestine caused by a parasite found in a contaminated food or drink.
The treatment for the medical condition would require strong medications that doctors told Pam had caused irreversible damage to Tim -- so they advised her to have an abortion.
As the Sun reported, Pam Tebow refused the abortion and cited her Christian faith as the reason for her hope that her son would be born without the devastating disabilities physicians predicted.
Pam ultimately spent the last two months of her pregnancy in bed and, eventually, gave birth to a health baby boy in August 1987.
How many people of accomplishment do we abort each year among more than 1 million children we kill? What's more, whether they would go on to win a Heisman Trophy or not, each one is a human being, created in the image of God, of inestimable value.
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