The Ultimate Sacrifice

This afternoon I wanted to write a blog, but seeing as how my life is pretty routine and uneventful at this point, didn't really have anything to write, that is until I came across the following story. On foxnews.com, I saw the headline "Mom dies, refused treatment to save baby's life". They way they word the headline makes it sound like the mom died and her baby died too because the mom refused to treat the baby. I was pretty disgusted with that idea, so I clicked on the article to see why the mom would be so cruel. As it turns out, this was not the case at all. You see, the mom found out she had advanced liver cancer when she was four months pregnant with a little boy. The doctor's told her that she could treat her cancer with chemo and the baby would die but she would live OR that she could wait until after the baby was born but that it may be too late for her at this point. She boldly stated that she would never do this to her baby. She died two months after the baby was born. In light of the many abortions that take place daily, this mom could have chosen to save her life. Instead she made the ultimate sacrifice for her little boy. What a beautiful picture of love! I am reminded of God's love for us in sending His Son to make the ultimate sacrifice for us.
"But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us." Romans 5:8


If you would like to read the article, I have pasted it below.

Expectant mother Lorraine Allard learned the devastating news that she was in the advanced stages of liver cancer when she was four months pregnant, according to the Daily Mail.

Allard, of St. Olaves in the U.K., had a choice: Delay treatment to save her baby, or terminate the pregnancy to save herself.

She chose the former, waiting until the fetus was viable before scheduling a Caesarean section.

"If I am going to die, my baby is going to live," Allard told her husband, Martyn, according to the Mail.

The baby came a week early and Allard, 33, gave birth on Nov. 18 to a healthy but premature boy she named Liam.

Exactly two months later, Allard died. She'd begun chemotherapy just after her son's birth. But in the end, it was too late.

Doctors believe Allard had bowel cancer that had gone undetected for years, eventually spreading to her liver. She realized something was wrong after she began suffering from stomach cramps, and tests revealed that her liver was covered with malignant tumors, the Mail reported.

"The doctors said they couldn't do anything because she was pregnant," Martyn Allard, 34, told the Mail. "She told them straight away they were not going to get rid of it. She'd have lost the will to fight."

The courageous and selfless mother was able to get out of bed and hold her tiny son several times beside his incubator before her death. Liam is the Allards' fourth child and first boy; his sisters are Leah, 10; Amy, 8; and Courtney, 20 months.

"Lorraine was positive all the way through," Martyn Allard told the paper. "She had strength for both of us. I can't begin to describe how brave she was. Towards the end we knew things weren't going well, but she was overjoyed that she had given life to Liam."