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Quintuplet Born at 8 Oz. \u2014 the Size of a Large Apple \u2014 Goes Home Just in Time for His 1st Birthday<\/h3>\n
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By Abigail Adams<\/strong><\/p>\n

A Minnesota quintuplet, considered one of the smallest babies ever born to survive, has finally gone home from the hospital \u2014 just in time for his first birthday.
\nHawa Mohamed gave birth to baby Bilal and his four other siblings at a Mother Baby Center in 2024, according to CBS affiliate WCCO-TV.<\/p>\nRead More<\/i><\/b>\" >Read More<\/i><\/b><\/span>

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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\u2019s about the same weight as a large apple.)<\/p>\n

Mohamed was worried Bilal would not survive, but was thrilled to take her smallest baby home exactly one year after he was born.<\/p>\n

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

Quintuplets Make History as They Graduate from the Same College: \u2018A Gigantic Moment\u2019
\nAll five babies survived, despite having just a 10% chance of doing so, Dr. Thomas George, the Medical Director for Neonatology, said.<\/p>\n

They are the first set of quintuplets to be cared for at Children\u2019s Minnesota in over 10 years, WCCO-TV reported.<\/p>\n

Bilal reportedly had the biggest uphill battle, receiving constant care to improve his breathing and help him gain weight.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t think he was going to make it,\u201d Mohamed said, adding that she and others \u201cwere living by the hour\u201d when Bilal was initially being treated, WCCO-TV reported.<\/p>\n

Now Bilal and his siblings are all home and are expected to develop normally as they grow up. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe kids overcame extraordinary odds,\u201d George said.
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'I Stood My Ground': Mom With Cancer Kept Her Baby Despite Abortion Guidance, Both Are 10 Years Healthy<\/h3>\n
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By Charlene Aaron<\/strong><\/p>\n

The battle over abortion in the US is as contentious as ever, with more and more states passing laws to restrict it as other states pass laws to expand it.
\nOften, abortion advocates argue that abortion is necessary in cases where the life of the mother is at risk.<\/p>\nRead More<\/i><\/b>\" >Read More<\/i><\/b><\/span>

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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. <\/p>\n

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. <\/p>\n

It is an experience that Sarah Wickline Hull knows well.<\/p>\n

When she was 20 weeks pregnant, doctors told her that she had aggressive cancer. <\/p>\n

Hull said that doctors told her that she and her baby could die and suggested she have an abortion.<\/p>\n

That was more than 10 years ago. Today Hull and her daughter are happy and healthy.<\/p>\n

She shared about her story earlier this year in a Facebook post. <\/p>\n

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

\"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.\"<\/p>\n

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'.\" <\/p>\n

\"I searched and found good doctors that supported me, and I gave birth to a healthy baby at 34 weeks,\" she said.<\/p>\n

This month marks the 10-year anniversary of Hull becoming cancer free.<\/p>\n

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

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Insiders Worry: Have Democrats Gone Too Far on Abortion?<\/h3>\n
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By Suzanne Bowdey<\/strong><\/p>\n

Democrats have suggested that everything\u2019s on the table when it comes to rebuilding their brand. But do they mean it? Months into November\u2019s messy autopsy, party officials might not like the ugly truths members are raising behind closed doors \u2014 especially when they threaten the far-Left\u2019s sacred cows.<\/p>\nRead More<\/i><\/b>\" >Read More<\/i><\/b><\/span>

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While it\u2019s widely accepted that trans extremism cost the Democrats dearly in 2024, there are rumblings that gender ideology wasn\u2019t the only issue dragging the party down. What if, after three years of fundraising and fearmongering, abortion has become a political liability too? It\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not that Americans don\u2019t share the party\u2019s 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\u2019t just defending abortion \u2014 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\u2019s party continues to respond with an outsized enthusiasm for the carnage.<\/p>\n

That disconnect has gotten increasingly uncomfortable, some experts believe. Regular people struggle with the moral weight of this issue \u2014 and somewhere along the way, that reality got lost. \u201cAfter the 2024 election,\u201d Family Research Council\u2019s Mary Szoch told The Washington Stand, \u201cDemocrats realized that your average American actually hates hearing about killing an unborn child at nine months.\u201d 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. \u201cWith 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,\u201d Trump said. \u201cNow you can say that that\u2019s okay, and Hillary can say that that\u2019s okay, but it\u2019s not okay with me.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s also \u201cnot okay\u201d with the majority of Americans, who don\u2019t share the Democratic Party\u2019s 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 \u201cpro-choicers.\u201d While Harris and company proudly support the practice up to (and even after) the moment of birth \u2014 at taxpayers\u2019 expense \u2014 the average voter isn\u2019t 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\u2019 eagerness to push the boundaries of this barbarity is off-putting at best and disturbing at worst.<\/p>\n

And partygoers are taking note. When Time magazine went inside \u201cthe Democrats\u2019 reboot\u201d 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\u2019s concern about abortion being outlawed as a full-throated endorsement for the procedure anytime, anyhow, anywhere. This surfaced in some of Alter\u2019s conversations with Democrats in Congress, some of whom refused to go on the record.<\/p>\n

\u201cMany Democratic officials believe the party moved too far left on social issues in particular,\u201d she wrote. \u201c\u2018There are some sports where trans girls shouldn\u2019t be playing against biological girls,\u2019 says one lawmaker, adding that most of his fellow Democrats agree but are \u2018afraid of the blowback that comes from a very small community.\u2019\u201d Alter adds, \u201cEven 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 \u2018safe, legal, and rare,\u2019 as Bill Clinton put it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Quietly, more rank-and-file Dems worry about the party\u2019s over-the-top appetite for a procedure that violently destroys a human life. \u201c\u2018Refusing to say that even in the third trimester there\u2019s no limits on it, it\u2019s not where the average American is,\u2019 says another Democratic lawmaker. \u2018The really embarrassing truth is Donald Trump is closer to the median voting on abortion than Democrats were.\u2019 Yet,\u201d Alter noted, \u201cthe fact these lawmakers would only share these thoughts without their names attached shows how much Democrats still fear antagonizing their liberal base.\u201d<\/p>\n

That jives with what a lot of politicos said in the aftermath of November\u2019s election. Unfortunately for Democrats, not only did they play the abortion card poorly, but it was also, to most people\u2019s surprise, the only card they played. It was easier, Virginia Republican strategist Zach Roday warned, to wage war \u201con just one single issue that favors Democrats \u2026 in the [2022] midterms\u201d \u2014 when the Supreme Court\u2019s ruling was fresh on people\u2019s minds. D.J. Quinlan, who served as a former executive director for the Arizona Democratic Party, also believes \u201cthere\u2019s room for a conversation\u201d on \u201cwhether talking about abortion at the expense of everything else, particularly the economy, might have been a contributing factor\u201d in November\u2019s shellacking.<\/p>\n

Others in the Republican Party stressed that Americans aren\u2019t one-dimensional voters. Maybe, Ford O\u2019Connell suggested, women were insulted by the insinuation that their uterus is the only thing they should care about. \u201cPeople don\u2019t want to be put in boxes or told what to think,\u201d he insisted. \u201cThey want to be heard.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u2019re standing on. Most of these lawmakers, Alter explains, \u201cacknowledge that the progressive movement encouraged a kind of purity policies that hampered the party\u2019s ability to win majorities. \u2018We swung the pendulum too far to the left,\u2019\u201d the Bronx congressman warns. In his own district, he\u2019s watched with alarm as Trump makes more inroads with \u201cworking-class people of color, as he did in cities around the country.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u2019s about their fundamental failure to course-correct when their values veer into the diabolic. As Time reiterated, \u201cDemocrats could dismiss Trump\u2019s first win as a fluke. His second, they know, was the product of catastrophic failure \u2014 a nationwide rejection of Democratic policies, Democratic messaging, and the Democrats themselves.\u201d The reality is, Alter noted, \u201cThe 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\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

When Harris couldn\u2019t convince voters that the economy, illegal immigration, and crime weren\u2019t really problems, FRC Action Director Matt Carpenter insisted to TWS, \u201cthey pivoted to pro-abortion rhetoric.\u201d And it wasn\u2019t just \u201cDemocratic politicians who relied heavily on the party\u2019s pro-abortion platform, but big donors also contributed vast sums of money to pro-abortion ballot initiatives in an attempt to galvanize their base.\u201d<\/p>\n

And frankly, he continued, \u201cThe fact that Democratic politicians have to speak anonymously to friendly media in order to gently signal to their base: \u2018Hey, maybe we need to back off a little of the extreme social policy\u2019 shows that Democratic members know the party has crossed a line with voters. These members simply don\u2019t have the courage to lead their party away from the extreme pro-abortion, pro-trans lobbies.\u201d<\/p>\n

But political expedience is just one part of the equation. \u201cUnfortunately,\u201d Szoch said, \u201cit doesn\u2019t 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,\u201d she lamented. \u201cThis lack of authenticity is what makes voters disgusted with career politicians. It\u2019s what got President Trump elected. I hope that one day Democrats see unborn children as human beings \u2014 not as an avenue to getting more votes,\u201d Szoch implored. \u201cBut until they do, I hope the American people are smart enough to continue voting them out of office.\u201d
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The Life and Death of Baby Walter is Changing The Abortion Debate<\/h3>\n
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By Nancy Flanders<\/strong><\/p>\n

It took a long time for Michayla, age seven, to deal with the loss of her baby brother, Walter. Michayla still proudly speaks of him, telling strangers that she has two sisters here, and a baby brother in heaven.<\/p>\n

At 19 weeks gestation, Michayla\u2019s mother, Lexi Fretz, miscarried Walter. At the time, Fretz, her husband, Joshua, and their two daughters were hundreds of miles away from home. They had traveled for a wedding where they were both guests, as well as photographers. Then the unthinkable happened \u2013 Fretz went into labor.<\/p>\nRead More<\/i><\/b>\" >Read More<\/i><\/b><\/span>

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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\u2019s family had to move on with their lives without him, starting with the long trip home.<\/p>\n

\u201cHaving to travel 600 miles home having just given birth, and dealing with traveling kids and postpartum me wasn\u2019t fun,\u201d Fretz said. \u201cAnd then when I got home, I had lots of support from family and friends, and the community as they found out, too \u2013 church and everyone else. We kept on living and trucking along, and doing what we had to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

A picture of Walter on Fretz\u2019s Facebook page quickly spread, and she began to pen Walter\u2019s story and the impact of his short life. Today, well over a million people have seen Walter\u2019s photos.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt still blows my mind,\u201d Fretz said. \u201cI never expected that when I put those pictures up, or the story up \u2013 just seeing how God would use our pain. So many women don\u2019t get the answer to why. Everyone wants to know, Why, God? Why did you do this? Now I know why. I have seen Walter\u2019s purpose. That has helped my husband and I, and our healing.\u201d<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was a lady in a town next to ours who was sitting in an abortion clinic with her daughter,\u201d Fretz said. \u201cShe was ready to go through with it. She said the whole time, she was thinking she shouldn\u2019t be doing this. She went online while she was sitting there, and she saw Walter, and she started to cry \u2013 and they got up and left.\u201d<\/p>\n

While Walter\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

This fall, the Fretz family welcomed their third daughter into the world. Mia, now nearly seven months old, joins Emma and Michayla.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey were thrilled to find out about Mia,\u201d Fretz said. \u201cWe bought a cake, and my husband had [the baker] write \u2018baby\u2019 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, \u2018Mommy, I hope this baby doesn\u2019t die\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Fretz family\u2019s lives are full of the color pink, plenty of glitter, and princesses \u2013 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.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor someone who survived so few minutes outside of me, he\u2019s left such an impact, more than I ever could,\u201d Fretz said. \u201cFor someone so tiny, he\u2019s touched so many. I hope he keeps educating the world and the masses as to what the preborn looks like on the inside \u2013 that it\u2019s not just a blob \u2013 it\u2019s not a clump of cells.\u201d<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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