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New Mayo hospital in La Crosse welcomes patients, including the building’s first birth
Patients have now been relocated into the new Mayo hospital building in La Crosse, and the newly-opened facility recorded its first birth a few hours after the move.
Hanna Mae Witt was born inside the new Mayo building late Tuesday, the day that patients were moved from the former Mayo and St. Francis building near West Avenue.
Mayo says Hanna’s mother, Sierra Witt, made history in two ways. Mrs. Witt was the first woman to have a baby in the new building, and was also the last patient to be moved out of the old hospital.
Departments have been moving into the new hospital gradually during September, with the patients finally being transferred this week.
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Kevin
September 27, 2024 at 6:56 am
I read this bit of fluff, and my thought almost immediately turned too, ‘why aren’t they celebrating the first abortion instead of, or in conjunction with the first birth”? Why wouldn’t they hold up a small bedpan type thing, with bits of the unborn in it, triumphantly over their heads and declare victory over the unborn? Why, because the killing of a soul is never something to be celebrated.
Abortion is a reproductive right, it is what our culture seems to live for, which is an irony. We live to have the right to kill our unborn, and we are not happy if we don’t have the singular, unquestioned right to kill the unborn.
If one believes in a soul, whether it be a Christian definition of a soul or other definition, that unborn child has a soul. That soul must be merged with the physical life at the moment of conception. Testimony from mothers with multiple children explain how each unborn child had its ‘own’ personality. That alone suggests the soul is there at the beginning! ‘I knew you before you were formed…”
That is why the hospital is celebrating a birth and not an abortion. Take careful note, it is not a ‘right’ to kill another soul, it is sometimes a necessary evil, but it is never celebrated. Life is celebrated! The ending of a good life is celebrated, the ending of an honorable and brave life is celebrated, the ending of a purposeful life is celebrated.