University of Florida quarterback Tim Tebow won the Heisman Trophy U.S. college football’s highest honour in 2007.
If his mother had followed her doctor’s advice when she was carrying him, he would be just another abortion statistic.
Tim’s parents, Bob and Pam Tebow, moved to the Philippines in 1985 to conduct a Christian missionary outreach. While pregnant with Tim, Pam contracted amoebic dysentery through contaminated drinking water. Her doctor told her that the medications she needed to recover would result in irreversible damage to the child she was carrying. She was advised to have an abortion.
She refused.