Influencers share the loss of their beloved unborn baby

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Matt and Abby Howard are a married couple who are popular social media influencers with about 19 million followers across all their social media platforms combined. They’re known for content about their family and personal life and their “unplanned podcast” where they have conversations with popular creators and famous people. 

In a heartbreaking post made a few days ago, Abby and Matt announced the loss of their baby daughter who was only 17 weeks gestation. “It is with heavy hearts that we share about the loss of our baby girl born far too soon, " they said. The sad news was met with thousands of expressions of sympathies and condolences pouring in from their followers. 

Matt and Abby talked about the grief and pain of the loss of their baby girl being "unimaginable". Nonetheless, they also highlighted the gratitude they felt for having to know their daugther, saying “we feel so much gratitude for the time that we did get to have with her”. The couple also said that they want to grieve and “honour her life”. 

This little baby in the womb has been loved, cherished and was very much wanted and it’s undeniable that the baby wasn’t just a “clump of cells” as abortion advocates would argue. This was a living human being that will be very much missed by the family. Their obvious grief is not the kind felt over a mere ‘clump of cells’ — it is the mourning over the loss of a human being - their daughter.

As we’ve seen countless times, the pro abortion side argues that a baby in the womb isn’t a human being and is just a clump of cells. They draw arbitrary lines on when a baby becomes a human and up to what point should abortion be legal. Some argue the limit is 12 weeks, 24 weeks, or that a baby in the womb doesn't become a human until birth and abortion should be legal up to 9 months. The inconsistency of the argument points to the obvious contradictions - because the truth is that no-one can draw a line at any point in pregnancy other than the beginning and say ‘life starts here’. 

We as pro life people understand that science has long proven that at the moment of conception a unique, human life is formed that deserves to be protected. No-one in the thousands of messages of condolences that are pouring in for Abby and Matt is saying their baby girl wasn’t a human being or that they are just grieving a clump of cells. That would be completely unacceptable and cruel - yet that’s what’s said about babies who are aborted. 

What Abby and Matt experienced - and what many other parents sadly do too - is the heartbreaking loss of their child, their precious little baby that was developing in the womb. Their grief is not for an abstract idea of vague potential life, but for a unique human being. The pain they feel reflects the reality of who they lost - a daughter, not just a clump of cells.

Advocating for abortion contradicts the grief and the loss that those parents experience for their child, because if it’s just a clump of cells as pro aborts argue why the grief and sadness?

Our thoughts and prayers are with Matt and Abby and all those parents who have experienced the loss of their babies in the womb.