Meet Richard Scott William Hutchinson who was born in June 2020. According to the Daily Mail, Richard weighed less than one pound (11.9 ounces) and was born at 21 weeks. He was so small he could fit in the palm of a hand.
The parents were told that baby Richard had no chance of survival.
Fast forward to June 5, 2021: Baby Richard just celebrated his first birthday!
Richard is now officially recognized by Guinness World Records as the world’s most premature baby to survive after birth, having been born 131 days premature.
During Richard’s first year of life, his parents Beth and Rick had many struggles to navigate, especially with the pandemic. From the the Daily Mail article:
“Rick and Beth traveled one hour every day from their home in Somerset, Wisconsin, to Minneapolis to visit their son.
‘The first month they weren’t even sure he was going to make it,’ Beth told Guinness. It was really hard. You know in the back of your mind that his odds weren’t great.’
Richard slowly gained strength every day and, in December 2020, his parents were told he could go home after six months spent in the NICU.
He is still on oxygen, is monitored with a pulse oximeter machine 24/7 and still requires some meals through a feeding tube, but he is making progress. ‘We are working on getting him off all of them, but it takes time. He has come a long way and is doing amazing,’ Beth said.
‘He is a very happy baby. Always has a smile on the adorable little face of his. His bright blue eyes and smile get me every time.”
Read this family’s whole story here.
So glad Baby Richard beat the odds!
This child is proof that abortion laws as we observe today, were passed in a time when medical understanding of fetal viability and medical intervention was next to NIL or Medieval. Since that time, we have progressed to a different understanding of viability outside the womb and also different and successful methods of intervention. Roe v. Wade is based on understandings so old that they are analogous to cure by blood-letting of a different century. It is time to re-evaluate the nature of LIFE independent of the womb and adjust accordingly as to our abortion laws.
This just goes to show that God is the Author of life and that His Gift of Life must be respected, honored and loved.
It is also proof that those who favor abortion cannot be trusted to govern the living!
And yet the barbaric Democratic Party and the Biden administration support the legal abortion, i.e., murder, of late-term babies, who can survive outside of the womb far better than Baby Richard.
Dr.E, this is what came to my mind as well. Dear Lord, please continue to help this precious baby and the family.