The Pro-Life Message You Probably Missed During the Super Bowl

If you’re sick of the Super Bowl by now, don’t worry. You’re in good company. Besides the actual game, which many have labeled as “boring,” plenty of other news items vied for your attention: ICE protesters, Bad Bunny vs. Kid Rock, a pending government shutdown, etc.

But you probably missed one story, and it has an incredible pro-life message.

On March 19, 2001, Seahawks linebacker Derick Hall was born nearly four months premature to his mother in Mississippi and weighed barely one pound. His chance of survival was bleak at just 1%. Because of the prognosis, Hall’s doctors suggested he be taken off life support, casting serious doubts that he would ever experience a good quality of life, even if he survived. His mother, however, valued her son’s life and placed her faith in the One who made him. She understood that all life is precious and deserves to be protected.

Now 25 years later, and after numerous procedures and health obstacles as a child, Derick Hall stands 6 feet, 3 inches, and a strapping 254 pounds. Talk about beating the odds!

But then the football aspect of his story is just as impressive. When Hall’s Seahawks beat the Patriots in Super Bowl LX, the team sacked quarterback Drake Maye six times and dominated on defense. Two of those sacks (including the game-deciding strip sack) came at the hands of Hall, who went on to become a Super Bowl champion.

I used AI to run some quick math on Hall’s chances of going from the ICU as a newborn baby to getting two sacks as a Super Bowl champion. Here’s what I found:

• Chances of survival: 1 in 100
• Chances of making it from high school football to the NFL: 1 in 5,000
• Chances of playing in the Super Bowl: 1 in 5 (at best)
• Chances of getting two sacks and winning: 1 in 100

When we multiply these probabilities, we find that Hall had approximately a 1-in-476-million chance of living the life God gave him. And it was all because his mother CHOSE LIFE. She recognized that her son – as vulnerable and dependent as he was in the womb or clinging to survival in the hospital – was a precious, God-given human life.

Of all the Super Bowl storylines this year, remember that life is always worth protecting. It’s why the ACLJ will always champion the right to life for every unborn child. Life is the greatest gift!       

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