GOP Rep. Jamie Herrera Beutler Shares Personal ‘Miracle’ Story at March for Life

Rep. Jamie Herrera Beutler (R-WA) shared a personal story at the March for Life on Friday, when she decided against her doctor’s advice to have an abortion.

Herrera Beutler said during her first pregnancy a few months into her second term in Congress, she and her husband Dan were told that their unborn baby had a “zero percent” chance of survival.

Her doctor told her that her baby would be born without kidneys, and that she would either miscarry, or that her baby would be born unable to breathe, and there was nothing anyone could do.

Her doctor advised her that the sooner she started over, the better off she would be emotionally, she said.

She said after praying and crying, she saw hope. “What if God would do a miracle? What if a doctor was willing to do something new?” she asked.

“We would have never known if we hadn’t tried,” she said.

She said through divine intervention and some very courageous doctors, “we now get to experience our daughter Abigail, now a “healthy, happy four-year-old big sister.”

Abigail has told her that “someday she’s going to be the boss of mommy’s work,” she said.

“Look out Speaker Ryan!” she joked.

Abigail is just the first, but “no longer the only,” Herrera Beutler said.

“I was told there was no chance of survival … but they were wrong,” she said. She said her doctors were not bad people, but they were wrong. “What if they were wrong about others, too?”

“What if every baby was given at least a shot to reach their true potential?” she asked. “Who would we be as a nation?”

What if, she asked, money spent on abortions was spent finding cures for birth defects, and to end diseases instead of lives?

“What if instead of spending millions of dollars every year in abortion, we spend that money for caring for babies?”

Herrera Beutler said America should move towards a society that embraces disability, instead of fearing it.

“For everyone who feels hopeless, Jesus loves you,” she said. “For everyone who’s given up on the status quo, Jesus still does miracles.”

She called on allowing babies to reach their “full potential.”

“It’s the only way our society is ever going to be able to reach ours,” she said.