{"id":900,"date":"2009-06-02T12:56:29","date_gmt":"2009-06-02T12:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/stevenwaldman\/2009\/06\/he-lived-for-the-most-wonderfu.html"},"modified":"2009-06-02T12:56:29","modified_gmt":"2009-06-02T12:56:29","slug":"he-lived-for-the-most-wonderfu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/stevenwaldman\/2009\/06\/he-lived-for-the-most-wonderfu.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;He lived for the most wonderful 16 days we&#8217;ve ever had.&#8221;  (Abortion vs. Childbirth)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/stevenwaldman\/imgs\/baby%20levi%20jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"baby levi jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/128\/import\/assets_c\/2009\/06\/baby levi jpg-thumb-600x450-5458.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center;margin: 0 auto 20px\" \/><\/a><\/span><br \/>\nLarson Hicks writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;My wife gave birth to a beautiful anencephalic little boy about seven weeks ago. He lived for the most wonderful 16 days we&#8217;ve ever had. We knew he wouldn&#8217;t live long, but we couldn&#8217;t be more grateful for his life. We were not only given the gift of getting to know our son, but we were given the blessing of true grief over the loss of our son. Had we chosen to do it differently, I&#8217;m sure we&#8217;d have always had a knot in our stomach about it and have never enjoyed the overwhelming joy that those 2 weeks with our son were. We&#8217;re starting to (slowly) blog about his short life here: www.levihicks.blogspot.com&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Larson Hicks writes: &#8220;My wife gave birth to a beautiful anencephalic little boy about seven weeks ago. He lived for the most wonderful 16 days we&#8217;ve ever had. We knew he wouldn&#8217;t live long, but we couldn&#8217;t be more grateful for his life. 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