Teen Succumbs to Cancer After Stopping Treatment to Deliver Healthy Baby Boy
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Jenni holds her baby Chad Michael shortly after giving birth while her boyfriend Nathan kisses her forehead.
POCATELLO, Idaho (TheBlaze/AP) — This is not the storyline you may expect in the case of teen pregnancy. Jenni Lake gave birth to a baby boy the month before her 18th birthday, though she was not destined to become just another teenage mother.
While being admitted to the hospital, she pulled her nurse down to her at bed level and whispered into her ear. The nurse would later repeat the girl’s words to comfort her family, as their worst fears were realized a day after Jenni’s baby was born.
“She told the nurse, ‘I’m done, I did what I was supposed to. My baby is going to get here safe,’” said Diana Phillips, Jenni’s mother.
In photographs, the baby’s ruddy cheeks and healthy weight offer a stark contrast to the frail girl who gave birth to him. She holds the newborn tightly, kissing the top of his head. Jenni, at 5 feet and 4 inches tall, weighed only 108 pounds at the full term of her pregnancy.
Chad Michael was named after Jenni and her boyfriend Nathan's fathers.
A day after the Nov. 9 birth, Phillips learned that her daughter’s decision to forgo treatment for tumors on her brain and spine so she could carry the baby would have fatal repercussions. The cancer had marked too much territory. Nothing could be done, Phillips said.
It was only 12 days past the birth — half spent in the hospital and the other half at home — before Jenni was gone.
Watch the local news report after Jenni’s death:
Even so, her family and friends insist her legacy is not one centered in tragedy, but rather in sacrifice.
This month, her family gathered at their ranch style home in Pocatello, where a Christmas tree in the living room was adorned with ornaments picked out just for Jenni, including one in bright lime green, her favorite color. She had passed away in a bedroom down the hall.
Recalling Jenni’s infectious laugh and a rebellious streak, her mother held the baby close, nuzzling his head, and said, “I want him to know everything about her, and what she did.”
The migraines started last year, when Jenni was a 16-year-old sophomore at Pocatello High School. She was taken to the family doctor, and an MRI scan found a small mass measuring about two centimeters wide on the right side of her brain.
She was sent to a hospital in Salt Lake City, some 150 miles south of Pocatello, and another scan there showed the mass was bigger than previously thought.
Jenni had a biopsy Oct. 15, 2010, and five days later was diagnosed with stage three astrocytoma, a type of brain tumor. With three tumors on her brain and three on her spine, Jenni was told her case was rare because the cancer had spread from her brain to another part of her body with no symptoms.
Her parents, who are divorced, remember they were brought into a room at the hospital and sat down at a long table as doctors discussed her chances of survival.
“Jenni just flat out asked them if she was going to die,” said her father, Mike Lake, 43, a truck driver who lives in Rexburg, north of Pocatello.
The answer wasn’t good. With treatment, the teen was told she had a 30 percent chance to make it two years, Lake said. While he was heartbroken, Lake marveled at how strong she seemed in that moment. “She didn’t break down and cry or anything,” he said.
But her mom recalled Jenni did have a weak moment that day.
“When they told her that she might not be able to have kids, she got upset,” said Phillips, 39.
Jenni started aggressive chemotherapy and radiation treatments, while also posting videos on a YouTube site titled “Jenni’s Journey,” where she hoped to share her story with updates every other day. She managed to upload only three videos, though, as her treatments left her tired and weak.
Here‘s Jenni’s first video:
On her second video, posted Nov. 20, 2010, Jenni appears distraught while a family friend records her having lunch with her mom:
“Last night, like, I was just lying in bed and I was thinking about everything that was going on and it just like, it just hit me, like everything, and I don’t know, it made me cry,” Jenni says on the video.
Her mom is shown burying her face in her hands. “Do you know how hard it is to be a mom and know that she‘s sick and there’s nothing you can do,” she says, before collapsing into tears.
Jenni persists: “It’s hard. It’s like, I don’t know how long this is going to last and I just want it to go away … I feel like this is holding me back from so much …”
By March of this year, the tumors had started to shrink, the family said.
In a picture taken at her prom in early May, Jenni is wearing a dark blue strapless dress and gives the camera a small smile. There’s a silver headband in her hair, which is less than an inch long. Chemotherapy took her shoulder-length blond tresses.
Her boyfriend, Nathan Wittman, wearing a black dress shirt and pants, is cradling her from behind.
Jenni started dating Nathan a couple of weeks before she received her diagnosis. Their adolescent relationship withstood the very adult test posed by cancer, the treatments that left her barely able to walk from her living room to her bedroom, and the gossip at school.
“The rumors started flying around, like Nathan was only with her because she had cancer,” said Jenni’s older sister, Ashlee Lake, 20, who tried to squelch the mean-spirited chatter even as the young couple ignored it.
They were hopeful, and dreamed of someday opening a restaurant or a gallery.
Jenni had been working as an apprentice in a local tattoo shop. “She was like our little sister,” said the owner, Kass Chacon. But in May, Jenni’s visits to the shop grew less frequent.
She had been throwing up a lot and had sharp stomach pains. She went to the emergency room early one morning with her boyfriend and when she returned home, her family members woke up to the sound of crying. “We could hear Jenni just bawling in her room,” said her sister, Kaisee, 19.
She had learned that she was pregnant, and an ultrasound would show the fetus was 10 weeks old.
Jenni’s journey was no longer her own.
From the start of treatment, she was told that she might never have children, her mother said, that the radiation and chemotherapy could essentially make her sterile.
“We were told that she couldn’t get pregnant, so we didn’t worry about it,” said Nathan, 19.
Jenni, the third of her parents’ eight children, had always wanted to be a mom. She had already determined to keep the baby when she went to see her oncologist, Dr. David Ririe, in Pocatello two days after she found out she was pregnant.
“He told us that if she’s pregnant, she can’t continue the treatments,” Phillips said. “So she would either have to terminate the pregnancy and continue the treatments, or stop the treatments, knowing that it could continue to grow again.”
Dr. Ririe would not discuss Jenni’s care, citing privacy laws, but said, generally, in cases in which a cancer patient is pregnant, oncologists will consider both the risks and benefits of continuing with treatment, such as chemotherapy.
“There are times during pregnancy in some situations, breast cancer being the classic example, where the benefits of chemotherapy may outweigh the risk to mother and baby,” Ririe said. “There are other times where the risk outweighs the benefits.”
There was no discussion about which path Jenni would choose. Her parents didn’t think of it as a clear life or death decision, and Jenni may not have, either. They believed that since the tumors had already started to shrink earlier, she had a strong chance of carrying the baby and then returning to treatment after he was born.
“I guess we were just hoping that after she had the baby, she could go back on the chemotherapy and get better,” her mother said.
AP
Jenni and Nathan named the baby Chad Michael, after their dads. Nathan has legal custody of the child, who is primarily cared for by Nathan’s mother, Alexia Wittman, 51.
“Nathan will raise him,” she said. She brings the baby to Jenni’s house to visit her family whenever they ask.
Jenni didn’t show regret for her decision, not in the final weeks of her pregnancy as she grew weaker, and not when she started to lose her vision as the cancer took its course, her family said.
Jenni’s last words were about her son as he was placed beside her a final time, her father said. As she felt for the baby, she said: “I can kind of see him.”
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Comments (190)
ellietoo
Posted on December 27, 2011 at 9:51pmIt was a very brave thing that this young girl did.
Report Post »scheduler
Posted on December 27, 2011 at 10:21pmGood to see responsible young people.
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Report Post »bullcrapbuster
Posted on December 27, 2011 at 10:51pmShe did what she felt was right. May we all have that courage.
Report Post »slimster
Posted on December 27, 2011 at 11:51pmYes, it is very good to see that young people can still make the right choice even when facing their mortality.
Report Post »pamela kay
Posted on December 28, 2011 at 1:56amELLIETOO, She was very brave and this beautiful little boy will never doubt her love. I respect her decision and her choice to not abort her child. My prayers to her baby, family, and to the young father. I hope the father has the same courage as she has shown. His little boy deserves a good and loving daddy. Bless them all.
Report Post »Citizen7154
Posted on December 28, 2011 at 7:01amWhat an amazing young woman she was.
Report Post »LouC57
Posted on December 28, 2011 at 7:03amI’m so proud of this young girl, I can’t imagine the bravery she showed, what an amazing human. She had to have been a huge blessing to her parents. And of course, the baby is beautiful.
Report Post »loriann12
Posted on December 28, 2011 at 7:13amI can’t really imagine how few 18 year olds there are that would make that self-less decision, to sacrifice themselves for their baby. Heck, I can’t imagine there are too many adults who would make that decision. Her child will see her again, in Heaven.
Report Post »Libertarian B 4 Libertarians Were Cool
Posted on December 28, 2011 at 9:49amChemo would have killed both mother and baby… At least the baby lives… Not really a choice at all… Chemo doesn’t work.
Report Post »C. Schwehr
Posted on December 28, 2011 at 12:06pmNone hath greater love…..
Report Post »UPSETVET
Posted on December 28, 2011 at 12:09pmGod bless you Jenni, you’re an example of what “motherhood” is all about. What a pity it is that the thousands of young teens who become pregnant and get abortions don’t have your God given sense of what being a mother is all about. God bless you sweet little son, I know God has a special place for him in life.
Report Post »Islesfordian
Posted on December 28, 2011 at 12:39pmChemo DOES work, Libertarian, though not always. Don’t undermine the significance of her sacrifice. She might well have lived had she sacrificed the baby’s chances and taken the treatment, so it was a REAL sacrifice she made instead.
Greater love hath no man, or young girl. In these days of Christmas it is good to remember the love and devotion of a young mother. She is blessed indeed.
Report Post »Libertarian B 4 Libertarians Were Cool
Posted on December 28, 2011 at 4:18pmSorry Islesfordian,
You are dead wrong… Chemo has proven to be a complete bust on brain tumors… Just ask Johnny Cochran, Ted Kennedy, or Robert Novak how it works…
Report Post »watashbuddyfriend
Posted on December 27, 2011 at 9:49pmTheBlaze, I came to this article, before I could post! Why continue to put these humanist, socialist articles out? How did you happen to come upon this story?
Report Post »Mimi24
Posted on December 27, 2011 at 9:54pmI have an idea. Don’t like this kind of story? Don’t click. Problem solved. No charge. Move your sorry loser ass along to the next story. Of course your sorry loser ass will find something wrong with that too.
Report Post »abbygirl1994
Posted on December 27, 2011 at 10:28pmInstead of moving it to the next story, how about you go to the HuffPo.. the’ll love you there… truly I pity you! No compassion.. not even one drop.. your parents didn’t teach you anything.. God in Heaven help us!
Report Post »author5555
Posted on December 27, 2011 at 11:11pmIf it offends you that much a mother would risk her own life to allow her baby to live. Don’t read it *******. FO. How do you like that.
Report Post »JJ Coolay
Posted on December 28, 2011 at 12:08amHow is this a socialist article? It’s human interest. Human interest doesn’t portray a type of political alignment.
Report Post »Treaty
Posted on December 28, 2011 at 12:14amWATASHBUDDYFRIEND – how‘s it feel to know that you’re the biggest arsehole on the Blaze tonight?
Report Post »Rational Man
Posted on December 28, 2011 at 12:26amIt seems you could learn a thing or two from this story and that courageous young mother.
Report Post »COFemale
Posted on December 28, 2011 at 12:36amSo are you upset because she did not abort the baby and chose to risk her life to save the baby? If this is the case, then I feel very sorry for you.
This girl did a very noble thing and I don’t know her, but I am proud of her. This is what true motherhood is all about. When a pregnant women goes to an abortion clinic, they should be shown the sacrifice this women made.
Report Post »motorcycleboy
Posted on December 28, 2011 at 4:35amGo back to DU and HuffPo, troll.
Report Post »Captain Crunch
Posted on December 28, 2011 at 6:32amWhat an *******!
Report Post »C. Schwehr
Posted on December 28, 2011 at 12:09pmHow about leaving this site and never coming back….you dishonor the memory of a girl who showed more guts than you’ll have in two lifetimes…..and she was but a child herself. Shame on you!
Report Post »baker john
Posted on December 29, 2011 at 1:01amHow true MIMI24 wonder why folks seem to post here without apparently having read or watched all just making irrational stupid remarks, my heart and prayers go out to the families involved
Report Post »salvawhoray
Posted on December 27, 2011 at 9:35pmShe says “she did what she suppose to do”???????????????????????
I say you’re not suppose to have a baby at her age period.
Report Post »Mimi24
Posted on December 27, 2011 at 9:49pmWho made you God?
Report Post »goheels
Posted on December 27, 2011 at 9:54pmYou sir are a pathetic excuse for a human being. Too bad she didn’t live up to your warped sense of self righteous moral standards. She had more courage and humanity in her little fingernail than you will ever comprehend.
Report Post »HorseCrazy
Posted on December 27, 2011 at 9:59pmshe makes the ultimate and very genuine sacrifice for her child and this is what you gleaned from the story? that she shouldnt have been pregnant. well you know what? life happens. not everyone makes the choices they should nor is anyone perfect, it makes her human, but through her ultimate trial she has left a legacy of life and love.
Report Post »jstan442
Posted on December 27, 2011 at 10:01pmthis is a girl who was brought up right–to respect the life that God gives–not like your family or friends who are egotistical and think they are a gift to all– this child will grow up knowing how much his mother loved him and he will do great things becoz he was so loved–God bless this child and family
Report Post »Mimi24
Posted on December 27, 2011 at 10:03pmListen up. You dumbass. I had my first child at nineteen. He is a productive citizen. Probably paying for your right to say this.
Report Post »circleDwagons
Posted on December 27, 2011 at 10:04pmsays who? yes they could have gotten married but they chose not to. she was dying. anyway the young man is a father now.
Report Post »abbygirl1994
Posted on December 27, 2011 at 10:30pmWhere is your humanity… oh its something your parents forgot to teach you!! God forgive you!
Report Post »Mimi24
Posted on December 27, 2011 at 10:49pmGood thing that Mary didn’t buy into your theory or else no Jesus to die for us.
Report Post »author5555
Posted on December 27, 2011 at 11:12pmScrew you too. No compassion at all from you leftists.
Report Post »JJ Coolay
Posted on December 28, 2011 at 12:09amSalva….. you can’t say that. That’s not your place to determine who is of age and who is not.
Report Post »The10thAmendment
Posted on December 28, 2011 at 12:28am@ salvawhoray
Posted on December 27, 2011 at 9:35pm
She says “she did what she suppose to do”???????????????????????
I say you’re not suppose to have a baby at her age period.
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People like you make the fallacy of of Dimwits warm pond theory seem like intelligence.
Rational Man
Posted on December 28, 2011 at 12:30amShe meant that she had done the right thing. Thats is comforting to someone about to die. She was at peace with her decision.
Report Post »There is no place for YOUR judgment here…………………SCAT!!
COFemale
Posted on December 28, 2011 at 12:38amAnd perhaps you should not have children either. God help them if you do.
It never surprises me how much a _______head men can be.
Report Post »Pharmer1
Posted on December 28, 2011 at 1:07amThere’s the possibility that Salvawhoray is waiting for marriage to have sex, and firmly believes that others should also do this.
Some people don’t recognize that kind of restraint in their personal religion.
The impression given by docs that the chemotherapy would lead to sterility might have contributed to this difficult situation. Jenni merits our admiration for her good maternal instincts.
Report Post »LDSmommy
Posted on December 28, 2011 at 1:43amLike Mimi24, I had my first child at 19, just barely 19. My son is now 24 years old and a very productive young man with a wife and son of his own. He works hard, his wife is almost an R.N. and they make good choices.
Report Post »You have no right to say if a girl her age should have a baby. Her life dream was to have a baby and she did. She made the ultimate sacrifice for her baby. THAT is what a mother is, no matter the what her age.
MOLLYPITCHER
Posted on December 28, 2011 at 7:39am@SALVAWHORAY
Report Post »Would it have been better if she murdered God’s creation? God has a plan for everyone. He has a plan for that baby who’s mother gave her young life so unselfishly. I hope that my own child would have the guts, and compassion for another life to be so giving of herself, were she faced with such a decision.
Shellback
Posted on December 28, 2011 at 9:03am@Salva
Report Post »Is that a partial acronym for Shiria Approved Law Vindicates Allah? There are a lot of radial mooslum groops that you can choose to join.
C. Schwehr
Posted on December 28, 2011 at 12:16pmSo why don’t you do your duty and abort the child now????? Tell the audience, how does it feel to be viewing your own rectum 24/7?
Report Post »just slap me
Posted on December 28, 2011 at 2:30pmAgreed!
Also not supposed to do illegal drugs and get arrested and put on probation.
No one is reading into this article.
Report Post »Come on, sheeple.
child13
Posted on December 28, 2011 at 9:58pmShe got pregnant sometime AFTER starting the treatments… when she was barely 17 and her boyfriend was 18/19. She already had the cancer… Did she save the child’s life, yes. Just for legal wondering and conversation… the baby’s father is 19 now, and 18 when he impregnated an underage (and clearly very very sick) girl. For legal commentary, he could be charged with rape and now manslaughter. But I noticed no one is going there. Stories like these always have a spin. If you had read the story under the legal context I just gave…which is all true, would it be so happy and cheerful?
Report Post »cstcomputers
Posted on December 27, 2011 at 9:33pmA special place in Heaven for this girl. “I’m done, I’ve done what I was suppose to”. I wish she hadn’t had to be done, she would have been an awesome Mother.
Report Post »goofyfoot2001
Posted on December 27, 2011 at 9:36pmYes she would.
Report Post »goofyfoot2001
Posted on December 27, 2011 at 9:36pmIs…
Report Post »CatB
Posted on December 27, 2011 at 10:46pmI agree … she IS an awesome mother. God bless her
Report Post »goofyfoot2001
Posted on December 27, 2011 at 9:30pmI should be on the first page FOREVER because the idiot that programmed this website can’t SORT comments worth a SHHHHHTTTTTTT. Fix the stupid sort fool.
Report Post »Treaty
Posted on December 28, 2011 at 12:16am********
Report Post »Treaty
Posted on December 28, 2011 at 12:17amAll asterisks so how about this? You are a sphincter.
Report Post »DesdemonasCrew
Posted on December 27, 2011 at 9:24pmNote to the Blaze: don’t run any more heartwarming stories. I get sick of seeing all these idiot trolls trashing people. They spew their hate and post their mindless gutter comments every time like hormone challenged juveniles. They are so pathetic. Every Blaze of light you try to bring us, they have to bring the dark clouds of Mordor to try and snuff it out. Then they snicker in their basements, stroking their keyboards and saying “Yesssssss, my preciousssssss! We showed them! Gollum, Gollum.”
Report Post »jungle J
Posted on December 27, 2011 at 9:33pmwhack job.
Report Post »Mimi24
Posted on December 27, 2011 at 9:41pmRead up please. I see more support and praise for this young mother than dissent. Note. You may have to read more than one page of comments.
Report Post »DesdemonasCrew
Posted on December 27, 2011 at 10:32pmYou clearly missed the point. I saw all the posts supporting the family, and I was moved by them. One hate-filled post makes me want to puke, and I wish these trolls would go away. They show up every time, spewing hate and clever comments. Jungle J…whack job? I’m simply expressing my disgust with morons. Are you aligning yourself with them? The LOTR reference was meant to be sardonic. I’ll wait while you look that up.
Report Post »Meanwhile, I applaud the courage of the young lady. I care not about her piercings, blah, blah, blah. Hers is a story of courage and life.
My distain is for people who have to vomit on every story to show how clever they are.
No, I don’t want the Blaze to stop sharing these stories. I’ll just have to stop reading the posts, because they always are littered (literally) by nay sayers and hate mongers.
abbygirl1994
Posted on December 27, 2011 at 10:35pmBetter yet don’t post them.. oh I know its called freedom of speech, but somedays I want to scream.. stop giving the evil of this world a voice that is only ugly and vile! God forgive these unGodly people.. I am always amazed at what sort of parent could raise such uncompassionate people.. Pray for their souls… all of them!
Report Post »DesdemonasCrew
Posted on December 27, 2011 at 11:05pmThese are the posters, just on this page, who have to rain on the parade, spit in the soup, crap on the carpet:
Report Post »The Third Archon, Sorocialism, garbagecanlogic, just slap me,salvawhoray
All of you are poopy heads.
Mean, vile, petty, small, poopy heads.
Firefighter 538
Posted on December 27, 2011 at 11:12pmLabor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.
Report Post »George Washington
author5555
Posted on December 27, 2011 at 11:14pmThat is why liberals are total MORONS. Now if this were a terrorist, they would be showing compassion all the way. Liberal idiots are the pits.
Report Post »angelcat
Posted on December 27, 2011 at 11:35pmWhy should be let the heartless and annoying keep us from becoming aware of inspiring stories like this one? Why should we let them win? This young lady showed what true courage and self-sacrifice is. I can only hope I can show as much courage as she did if the need ever arises. She gave up her chance at possibly extending or saving her own life for her child.
Report Post »Berbel73
Posted on December 28, 2011 at 12:08amHey here’s an idea, don‘t read the friggin’ comments then. I mean come on you want the Blaze to stop posting good heart touching articles like this just because of a few d bags who get their jollies by posting ignorant BS just because they can?
Report Post »JJ Coolay
Posted on December 28, 2011 at 12:13amFirefighter… that‘s an exceptional quote from our nation’s greatest!
Report Post »Thanks.
AmericanFightingMan1
Posted on December 27, 2011 at 9:14pmGod rest her soul and God bless her child. She knew love for her child and her child will know the love.
Report Post »suzy000
Posted on December 27, 2011 at 9:14pmWhile many people push others in front of a bullet…this girl took the bullet to save another. That is true courage. So see…tattoos…piercings as some here have interjected does not make the person…it is ALL inside that determines who we truly are. She is looking down right now at this beautiful baby with angels on each side of her.
Report Post »The Third Archon
Posted on December 27, 2011 at 9:28pm“She is looking down right now at this beautiful baby with angels on each side of her.”
No, no she’s probably just dead–which makes her sacrifice all the more meaningful and courageous. It is an easy thing for the Christian to sacrifice, so absolute in their beliefs that they will be rewarded.
It takes REAL courage, for us to fight for the good, KNOWING that our victory is not imminent, that we shall never SEE that victory, nor taste of its rewards–yet to do the good anyway FOR ITS OWN SAKE, for the knowing and the loving of the good.
Religion is an excuse of moral and philosophical laziness.
Report Post »Mimi24
Posted on December 27, 2011 at 9:32pmI don’t know about tattoos and piercings. Can’t see well. What I do see is a Mom that gave her life for her child.
Report Post »Mimi24
Posted on December 27, 2011 at 10:41pm@the thirdarchon. Why don’t we agree to disagree until Jesus comes back? Then we shall see. Hope you get right before then though . Prayers for you and God bless.
Report Post »JJ Coolay
Posted on December 28, 2011 at 12:20am“It is an easy thing for the Christian to sacrifice, so absolute in their beliefs that they will be rewarded.”
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Really? If sacrifice was so easy why aren’t more people doing it? Christian or not, sacrifice is not easy.
Report Post »The Third Archon
Posted on December 27, 2011 at 9:09pmIt‘s a shame that those of character are the one’s asked to give the greatest sacrifices…but then again, perhaps it because of their character, that they sacrifice…
Report Post »18th airborne
Posted on December 27, 2011 at 10:24pmA profound statement, you are so correct.
Report Post »PheonixDragon
Posted on December 28, 2011 at 11:17am“I regret that I have only one life to give for my Country!” Nathan Hale. I read the article, and thought of how much she would have made a good parent. I also thought of the sacrifice she made so her child could live, and compared that sacrifice to those who died so Americans could be and stay free. To her, and all of those others, I say: Semper Fidelis!
Report Post »Dream33
Posted on December 27, 2011 at 9:06pmI think what this girl did to save her childs life was a exceptonal act.This young lady was still a child herself.I think she was about the bravst young lady there could be.
Report Post »ReagansDad
Posted on December 27, 2011 at 9:05pmTo JustSlapMe and GarbageCanLogic – as a relatively new father (16 month old girl) who until a few years ago firmly believed I didn’t want children – I can only hope that you are the kind of men who a) have no children of your own and/or b) have no real family ties. Your observations are crass and callous… the kind of thing I would expect from a thug, punk kid who sees an old woman fall on the stairs. I hope you are comfortably in the anonymity of the internet. I don’t think anyone else here would attest to being associated with you if we knew who you are.
This young woman (yes, anyone with the maturity to plan this out knowing the choice and consequences of the only correct answer is a woman) wanted to leave something behind – to live on in spite of death. Kudos to her and her family.
Shame on you.
Report Post »9635kari
Posted on December 27, 2011 at 9:01pmIn an age where a fetus is put in a bag and then tossed away, this girl put her baby’s life before her own. A life that had many more years.
Report Post »just slap me
Posted on December 28, 2011 at 2:22pmA 17 year old CHILD decided to have a BABY out of wedlock more than likely full-well KNOWING there was a VERY good possibitlity that she would DIE.
You try and blast ME, but the fact is that the vast majority of people who read this article here and posted do NOT have the ability to read into and article and see the HARD TRUTH.
That is why the world is heading in the direction that it is. People in this country are WAY TOO easy to guide into the direction that they want them to go just by using the right choices of words.
Think about it: Without a proper amount of intellegence, a article, ANY article, can be written in a way to get the reader to respond in polar opposite directions.
Fools, I say. Fools.
Report Post »South Philly Boy
Posted on December 27, 2011 at 8:47pmGod BLESS
Report Post »AmericanPatriot4God
Posted on December 27, 2011 at 9:02pmSome of you people are sick. I don’t think you are genuine posters just trying to make the people on this site look bad. If you believe what you say on here than your soul seems to be in trouble but that is for God to decide. May God bless you and you see the error in your ways.
This is pure love. Someone who understands the value of life. God bless her and her family. It’s beautiful that one can love the child more than their own life. If this is good and right, the opposite would be evil and wrong. What does that make abortion? Exactly. Even in these immoral times, there is hope.
Report Post »jzs
Posted on December 27, 2011 at 9:08pmHuman’s are altruistic by nature. Acts like these represent what is best in human nature. So much of what you read shows the worst instincts of humankind, so what a wonderful thing to hear a story that shows the best of us.
Report Post »just slap me
Posted on December 27, 2011 at 8:45pmGreat.
Report Post »Another illegitimate kid born to an unmarried teen-aged mom with facial piercings and tattoos.
That’s. Just. Great.
Mimi24
Posted on December 27, 2011 at 8:55pmOk. I will just slap you. You asked for it and you deserve it. Consider yourself slapped.
Report Post »kindling
Posted on December 27, 2011 at 9:02pmI would like to do your name.
Report Post »redbone007
Posted on December 27, 2011 at 9:06pmDouble slapped.
Report Post »Stoic one
Posted on December 27, 2011 at 9:10pmI wish I could JUST SLAP YOU!
Report Post »jcizarter
Posted on December 27, 2011 at 9:17pmGo occupy a car cruncher.
Report Post »18th airborne
Posted on December 27, 2011 at 10:50pmThis girl gave her life for something. When you go to bed tonight ask yourself if you have done the same. If not, humble yourself as inferior to a person of this character and keep your disrespectful comments to yourself.
Report Post »author5555
Posted on December 27, 2011 at 11:17pmIf I were standing before, I would slap your f-king ugly face until it fell off you misersable a-wipe. Another useless liberal walking this earth. Tell us how you would feel if this were a terrorist. Forget it, we know how you trolls would act. With so much compassion. Liberals are useless.
Report Post »Grannie4news
Posted on December 28, 2011 at 12:24am@JustSlapMe: And you are a heartless ignorant supposed to be human with NO body piercings, brains or compassion How callused can you be?
Report Post »Rational Man
Posted on December 28, 2011 at 12:39am@just slap me
And just why is your life worth anymore than anyone elses?
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COFemale
Posted on December 28, 2011 at 12:46amHey, I love to give a good Slap. Consider yourself slapped from me.
You know when men make comments like this, it makes me wonder if they have a girlfriend or wife or both? I am sure they are just lonely pathetic losers living in mom’s basement and surfing the Internet in their undies. Which now that I think about that image, I want to puke.
Report Post »PheonixDragon
Posted on December 28, 2011 at 11:21amI won’t slap you. I’ll take a baseball bat and beat you till to beg for release. Then I’ll use you for gator bait. Where do you get off trying to act like your the only one who knows right from wrong? Or as I have said to others: “When did God die and leave you in charge?”
Report Post »just slap me
Posted on December 28, 2011 at 2:29pmOh, and by the way, this 17 year old CHILD was on probation (read the article).
So, let’s spell this out: 17 year old CHILD, on PROBATION for a DRUG MISDOMEANER (do some research and you will find out the truth), gets PREGNANT while UNMARRIED, and is littered with TATTOOS and PIERCINGS, and somehow the majority of posters find her to be the second coming of Mother Teresa ?????
Did I accidently click on The Huffington Post ?????
Report Post »M13
Posted on December 27, 2011 at 8:44pmUnder Obamacare they would have aborted the child first and then say “you are to expensive to treat so here’s some Tylenol and good luck”
Report Post »John 3:16
Posted on December 27, 2011 at 8:37pmGOD chose life for this baby before the foundations of the world. “Greater love hath no man than he lay down his life for another”.
Report Post »Mimi24
Posted on December 27, 2011 at 9:03pmI am a mother and a grandmother. This young woman deserves the highest of praises. She laid down her life to bring her child into this world.. Good job Mom! I bet you heard that when you entered Heaven.
Report Post »The_Hut_In_Co
Posted on December 27, 2011 at 9:17pmAmen!
Report Post »Ducky 1
Posted on December 27, 2011 at 11:30pmI was thinking of that verse too!!
Report Post »Rational Man
Posted on December 28, 2011 at 12:42amBest post…….Thank you!
Report Post »usaywhat
Posted on December 27, 2011 at 8:32pmBlessings on this young couple, and their families. Blessings on their friends and neighbors who help them out. The one glimmer of hope is that it sounds like the father and both grandparents want, and love this baby boy. That gives him a hope and a future.
Report Post »chips1
Posted on December 27, 2011 at 8:26pmWith all that I’ve done in my life, I could never reach her level. She said she did what she was supposed to do. I’m still waiting. God is smiling over His success.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on December 27, 2011 at 8:36pmAmen, how many of us would have the true courage to face death to save a precious life yet to come into the world? That is the truth of ‘No greater love is there than when one lays their life down for another.’
Lay in peace in the arms of the Lord young lady, and may God bless and protect the father and your baby for all time until you are reunited with them again.
Report Post »The10thAmendment
Posted on December 27, 2011 at 8:26pmWOW what an incredible story. Willing to sacrifice yourself for your child. Apparently Jenni had some troubles (on probation), but the courage expressed through her act of bravery on behalf of the life she carried inside her is powerful.
My sincerest prayer to her family and her baby. I have a feeling that today she’s in a much better place.
Report Post »baarebeary
Posted on December 27, 2011 at 8:56pmWTF does being on probation have anything to do with the beautiful sacrifice this girl made? Why bring that up?
Report Post »Mimi24
Posted on December 27, 2011 at 9:17pmI believe that to be true. She and her son and family will be reunited one day. I salute your courage Miss Jenni. And your fine parents.
Report Post »The10thAmendment
Posted on December 27, 2011 at 9:31pm@ baarebeary
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Maybe nothing to you, I don’t know. I actually read the entire story a few times and watched the video’s a number of times because I believe it to be a beautiful story. Being on probation doesn’t mean anything for the sacrifice of the child. I was curious to find where the strength of her convictions came from because the story doesn’t say. She was on probation for something, but I‘m still confident that she’s in a much better place today. In Gods arms.
garbagecanlogic
Posted on December 27, 2011 at 8:07pmI am not a liberal, however, my first question is: “Who is the mother who will now care for it?”. Kinda sounds foolish, first you get pregnant when you should not have, then you allow your disease to win so that the baby will not have a mother.
The U.S. Out Of The U.N.
Report Post »The U.N. Out Of The U.S.
Sorocialism
Posted on December 27, 2011 at 8:24pmIf you read the article…which seems difficult for some…the child is being cared for by the family of the girl. I don’t think she “allowed” the cancer to win…if I’m not mistaken…cancer can’t always be beaten.
What does your usual U.N. fetish have to do with this article…please, use your slogan when its appropriate. It lessens the meaning to use it with EVERY post. You have a valid point, but nobody cares because you chant it like a parrot thats only learned one line.
Report Post »chips1
Posted on December 27, 2011 at 8:33pmThe story said she had a family. That’s what families do for each other. Also the father didn’t skip out like your kind.
Report Post »Mimi24
Posted on December 27, 2011 at 9:27pmI don’t need to say a thing. Your user name garbagecanlogic says it far better than I could. And that’s exactly where your logic belongs. Thank you for sorting it out for us.
Report Post »Robert-CA
Posted on December 27, 2011 at 8:04pmA moment of prayer in her memory , that’s what we all should do .
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AMEN .
ZaphodsPlanet
Posted on December 27, 2011 at 8:01pmHappy Story…. Happy story please. I can’t take this cruel crap any more. It’s either someone wanting to destroy us from within….BO and company. A freaking baby girl getting bludgeoned to death with a freaking brick…. or now this… a poor poor girl who’s died of cancer. God bless her for having her beautiful son….. but you SOB’s are sending me over a cliff. Think it’s time I exit The Blaze for a while, at least until Glenn is back online. You bastards are killing us here.
Report Post »abbygirl1994
Posted on December 27, 2011 at 10:42pmRealize this now.. things are going to ge a whole lot worse from here on out.. we will here of great miracles, and we will see the worst of humanity.. “choose ye this day whome ye will serve, God or mammon”! I choose God! God help us all!
Report Post »AmericanStrega
Posted on December 27, 2011 at 7:59pmI’m sure posters will weep and wail about a teenaged girl becoming pregnaut and all, but while I don’t believe children should be having children, I find this young lady’s concern for her child outweighs everything. She sacrificed herself for her unborn child. In this day and age, where it is easy to abort what one may feel is a blight on ones life and lifestyle, this young lady cared enough to think about her child. May she rest in peace and may her child, boyfriend, and family celebrate the life sacrificed for another.
Report Post »Lone Ranger
Posted on December 27, 2011 at 7:57pmThis is a selfless act that liberals would sneer at, as they jeered at Sarah Palin for having a Downs syndrome baby. They don’t understand the concept of a parent making a sacrifice for a child. To them, children are just something to be exploited in ads for their favorite causes.
Report Post »Mimi24
Posted on December 27, 2011 at 10:26pmI know. They won’t get it. But this is a beautiful story. On one hand makes me cry my eyes out because this beautiful young woman lost her life giving birth to her son, but on the other hand, I know who wins in the end.
Report Post »author5555
Posted on December 27, 2011 at 11:19pmAnother reason liberals are gutless cowards and useless POS. I have no use for them at all. These are the same morons who decried when the Navy Seals killed Bin Laden. Let’s kill an unborn child but it is wrong to kill a terrorist. Priorities of liberals are always so backwards.
Report Post »Anarcho Capitalist
Posted on December 27, 2011 at 7:57pmI know this family. They are in need of massive financial help. Good friends with this girls uncle.
Report Post »Sorocialism
Posted on December 27, 2011 at 8:25pmUse your Anarcho-capitalism to help them…see how that works.
Mimi24
Posted on December 27, 2011 at 8:44pmDo you know if a website has been set up to help this family? Can you post it here or point us in the right direction? I know that my fellow Blazers are generous and have proven so many times.
Report Post »abbygirl1994
Posted on December 28, 2011 at 1:07amSOROCILISM… Take your idiocy elsewhere… Good grief isn’t that what you OWStreeters are wanting.. more of the Capitalist money.. when will jerks ever figure out that we American’s have been donating monies to many entitlements for decades, to countries who have had catastrophes.. we are always the first to arrive, and we give more than any other country… but you low lifes want it all.. so if we so called Capitalist want to give some of our money to help another than by gollee we will… we give freely.. but you lazy or spoiled rotten idits want it all.. if anything being a socialist you should welcome whatever we can give to someone in need.. who certainly deserves it.. Which is not yourself.. unless of course you are a welfare abuser that we have been supporting forever…Get a life.. and take some responsibility for it! Go to the HuffPo where you will find like minded people.. I am sure they will love you there! God help you!
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