The biggest baby of the bunch, which entered the world at just 23 weeks, weighed only one pound. But Bilal was even smaller and is considered the second smallest baby on record at 8 ounces. (That’s about the same weight as a large apple.)

Mohamed was worried Bilal would not survive, but was thrilled to take her smallest baby home exactly one year after he was born.

"All praise to God," Mohamed said, speaking Somali. "I'm very happy today because my children and I are healthy and going home."

Quintuplets Make History as They Graduate from the Same College: ‘A Gigantic Moment’
All five babies survived, despite having just a 10% chance of doing so, Dr. Thomas George, the Medical Director for Neonatology, said.

They are the first set of quintuplets to be cared for at Children’s Minnesota in over 10 years, WCCO-TV reported.

Bilal reportedly had the biggest uphill battle, receiving constant care to improve his breathing and help him gain weight.

“I didn’t think he was going to make it,” Mohamed said, adding that she and others “were living by the hour” when Bilal was initially being treated, WCCO-TV reported.

Now Bilal and his siblings are all home and are expected to develop normally as they grow up.

“The kids overcame extraordinary odds,” George said.

But some research offers hope for pregnant women with cancer. For example, Life News reports a study in The Lancet in 2012 that found that pregnant women don't need to abort their babies while undergoing cancer treatment.

And research in 2015 in the New England Journal of Medicine found that chemotherapy does not harm the development of an unborn baby. "Prenatal exposure to maternal cancer with or without treatment did not impair the cognitive, cardiac, or general development of children in early childhood," researchers wrote.

It is an experience that Sarah Wickline Hull knows well.

When she was 20 weeks pregnant, doctors told her that she had aggressive cancer.

Hull said that doctors told her that she and her baby could die and suggested she have an abortion.

That was more than 10 years ago. Today Hull and her daughter are happy and healthy.

She shared about her story earlier this year in a Facebook post.

"People are talking about the medical necessity of abortion to save the mother's life. I was one of those mothers," she said.

"I was diagnosed with an aggressive cancer that was cutting off my airway at 20 weeks of pregnancy. I will never forget when the first doctor, an oncologist, mentioned abortion. We had gone thru years of infertility to get pregnant. I knew I would rather die and give birth."

She continued, "Then I met with another doctor who listed all of the problems the baby would have if I did not terminate. I stood my ground and refused. He said, 'That is ok. The baby will probably spontaneously abort anyway'."

"I searched and found good doctors that supported me, and I gave birth to a healthy baby at 34 weeks," she said.

This month marks the 10-year anniversary of Hull becoming cancer free.

"I have a healthy, beautiful, bright, precious 10-year-old daughter who is a living reminder that doctors do not know everything," said Hull.

While it’s widely accepted that trans extremism cost the Democrats dearly in 2024, there are rumblings that gender ideology wasn’t the only issue dragging the party down. What if, after three years of fundraising and fearmongering, abortion has become a political liability too? It’s probably hard for DNC strategists to fathom after Dobbs, but the issue that helped them string together so many midterm and state-level wins may finally be turning voters off.

It’s not that Americans don’t share the party’s desire to keep abortion legal, too many do. But keeping it legal and celebrating the killing through all nine months of pregnancy are two very different things. Maybe in Kamala Harris, the nation finally realized that Democrats weren’t just defending abortion — they were reveling in it. What others approached with somber and appropriate seriousness, their standard-bearers gleefully embraced as another rite of womanhood. As millions of mothers grieve what abortion cost them, Harris’s party continues to respond with an outsized enthusiasm for the carnage.

That disconnect has gotten increasingly uncomfortable, some experts believe. Regular people struggle with the moral weight of this issue — and somewhere along the way, that reality got lost. “After the 2024 election,” Family Research Council’s Mary Szoch told The Washington Stand, “Democrats realized that your average American actually hates hearing about killing an unborn child at nine months.” Even before that, in 2016, when Donald Trump described, in chilling detail, the kind of dismemberment abortion that Hillary Clinton endorsed, it was a turning point in the campaign. “With what Hillary is saying, in the ninth month, you can take the baby and rip the baby out of the womb of the mother just prior to the birth of the baby,” Trump said. “Now you can say that that’s okay, and Hillary can say that that’s okay, but it’s not okay with me.”

It’s also “not okay” with the majority of Americans, who don’t share the Democratic Party’s delight in ruthlessly executing unborn children. In the most recent Marist survey (2025), 67% of the 1,387 adults surveyed agreed there should be limits on abortion, including 55% of self-described “pro-choicers.” While Harris and company proudly support the practice up to (and even after) the moment of birth — at taxpayers’ expense — the average voter isn’t an abortion zealot. Even after the overturning of Roe v. Wade, most people have a very difficult time justifying the slaughter of innocent children after the first trimester, if at all. To them, the Democrats’ eagerness to push the boundaries of this barbarity is off-putting at best and disturbing at worst.

And partygoers are taking note. When Time magazine went inside “the Democrats’ reboot” in their latest issue, some of the most revealing parts were the interviews that author Charlotte Alter had with party members that hinted at this same problem. In many ways, the Left has misread people’s concern about abortion being outlawed as a full-throated endorsement for the procedure anytime, anyhow, anywhere. This surfaced in some of Alter’s conversations with Democrats in Congress, some of whom refused to go on the record.

“Many Democratic officials believe the party moved too far left on social issues in particular,” she wrote. “‘There are some sports where trans girls shouldn’t be playing against biological girls,’ says one lawmaker, adding that most of his fellow Democrats agree but are ‘afraid of the blowback that comes from a very small community.’” Alter adds, “Even abortion is up for a rethink. Some Democrats want a retreat from the enthusiastic embrace of abortion rights, and a return to talking about abortion as ‘safe, legal, and rare,’ as Bill Clinton put it.”

Quietly, more rank-and-file Dems worry about the party’s over-the-top appetite for a procedure that violently destroys a human life. “‘Refusing to say that even in the third trimester there’s no limits on it, it’s not where the average American is,’ says another Democratic lawmaker. ‘The really embarrassing truth is Donald Trump is closer to the median voting on abortion than Democrats were.’ Yet,” Alter noted, “the fact these lawmakers would only share these thoughts without their names attached shows how much Democrats still fear antagonizing their liberal base.”

That jives with what a lot of politicos said in the aftermath of November’s election. Unfortunately for Democrats, not only did they play the abortion card poorly, but it was also, to most people’s surprise, the only card they played. It was easier, Virginia Republican strategist Zach Roday warned, to wage war “on just one single issue that favors Democrats … in the [2022] midterms” — when the Supreme Court’s ruling was fresh on people’s minds. D.J. Quinlan, who served as a former executive director for the Arizona Democratic Party, also believes “there’s room for a conversation” on “whether talking about abortion at the expense of everything else, particularly the economy, might have been a contributing factor” in November’s shellacking.

Others in the Republican Party stressed that Americans aren’t one-dimensional voters. Maybe, Ford O’Connell suggested, women were insulted by the insinuation that their uterus is the only thing they should care about. “People don’t want to be put in boxes or told what to think,” he insisted. “They want to be heard.”

Those brave enough to challenge the radical views of the Democratic Party openly, like New York Representative Ritchie Torres (D), recognize the losing ground they’re standing on. Most of these lawmakers, Alter explains, “acknowledge that the progressive movement encouraged a kind of purity policies that hampered the party’s ability to win majorities. ‘We swung the pendulum too far to the left,’” the Bronx congressman warns. In his own district, he’s watched with alarm as Trump makes more inroads with “working-class people of color, as he did in cities around the country.”

That will only continue if the party of Biden and Harris refuses to recognize that this reckoning was about a lot more than Donald Trump. It’s about their fundamental failure to course-correct when their values veer into the diabolic. As Time reiterated, “Democrats could dismiss Trump’s first win as a fluke. His second, they know, was the product of catastrophic failure — a nationwide rejection of Democratic policies, Democratic messaging, and the Democrats themselves.” The reality is, Alter noted, “The party got skunked in every battleground state and lost the popular vote for the first time in 20 years. They lost the House and the Senate. Their support sagged with almost every demographic cohort except Black women and college-educated voters. Only 35% of Democrats are optimistic about the future of the party…”

When Harris couldn’t convince voters that the economy, illegal immigration, and crime weren’t really problems, FRC Action Director Matt Carpenter insisted to TWS, “they pivoted to pro-abortion rhetoric.” And it wasn’t just “Democratic politicians who relied heavily on the party’s pro-abortion platform, but big donors also contributed vast sums of money to pro-abortion ballot initiatives in an attempt to galvanize their base.”

And frankly, he continued, “The fact that Democratic politicians have to speak anonymously to friendly media in order to gently signal to their base: ‘Hey, maybe we need to back off a little of the extreme social policy’ shows that Democratic members know the party has crossed a line with voters. These members simply don’t have the courage to lead their party away from the extreme pro-abortion, pro-trans lobbies.”

But political expedience is just one part of the equation. “Unfortunately,” Szoch said, “it doesn’t seem that Democrats have realized the reason they need to change their position on abortion is because an unborn child is a human being. Instead, Democrats want to change their position to gain votes,” she lamented. “This lack of authenticity is what makes voters disgusted with career politicians. It’s what got President Trump elected. I hope that one day Democrats see unborn children as human beings — not as an avenue to getting more votes,” Szoch implored. “But until they do, I hope the American people are smart enough to continue voting them out of office.”

Baby Walter may have only lived outside the womb for a few moments, but his life has had a lasting impact. He saved others from abortion, and helped pro-abortion individuals see the preborn as human beings deserving of life. But Walter’s family had to move on with their lives without him, starting with the long trip home.

“Having to travel 600 miles home having just given birth, and dealing with traveling kids and postpartum me wasn’t fun,” Fretz said. “And then when I got home, I had lots of support from family and friends, and the community as they found out, too – church and everyone else. We kept on living and trucking along, and doing what we had to do.”

A picture of Walter on Fretz’s Facebook page quickly spread, and she began to pen Walter’s story and the impact of his short life. Today, well over a million people have seen Walter’s photos.

“It still blows my mind,” Fretz said. “I never expected that when I put those pictures up, or the story up – just seeing how God would use our pain. So many women don’t get the answer to why. Everyone wants to know, Why, God? Why did you do this? Now I know why. I have seen Walter’s purpose. That has helped my husband and I, and our healing.”

People around the world continue to tell the Fretz family that they ended up choosing life for their babies because of Walter. One note that stands out to Lexi is from a woman not too far from home.

“There was a lady in a town next to ours who was sitting in an abortion clinic with her daughter,” Fretz said. “She was ready to go through with it. She said the whole time, she was thinking she shouldn’t be doing this. She went online while she was sitting there, and she saw Walter, and she started to cry – and they got up and left.”

While Walter’s photos made their way across the globe, Fretz discovered she was expecting another child. She was thrilled, but the pregnancy had some frightful moments. Fretz was diagnosed with an incompetent cervix, which can lead to premature labor. She had surgery at 13 weeks gestation to place a permanent band around her cervix, and it was a success.

This fall, the Fretz family welcomed their third daughter into the world. Mia, now nearly seven months old, joins Emma and Michayla.

“They were thrilled to find out about Mia,” Fretz said. “We bought a cake, and my husband had [the baker] write ‘baby’ on the top, and our oldest was just starting to read. It clicked, and her face lit up. They were ecstatic. They would come up, rub my belly and say, ‘Mommy, I hope this baby doesn’t die’.”

The Fretz family’s lives are full of the color pink, plenty of glitter, and princesses – and two little girls who are in love with their baby sister. Both girls endured the loss of their brother through difficulty, especially Michayla. They still discuss Walter, and Michayla tells her parents that she misses him and wishes God did not take him away. The girls and their parents are proud of the difference Walter is making.

“For someone who survived so few minutes outside of me, he’s left such an impact, more than I ever could,” Fretz said. “For someone so tiny, he’s touched so many. I hope he keeps educating the world and the masses as to what the preborn looks like on the inside – that it’s not just a blob – it’s not a clump of cells.”

LifeNews Note: Nancy is a work at home mom who writes about parenting, special needs children, and the right to life. She is the lucky mother of two spirited little girls, one who has cystic fibrosis, and she spends any free moment she can find fundraising for a cure for CF. You can read her personal blog at www.ChronicAdmissions.com. Reprinted from Live Action News.