A Christian woman who gave birth to a child born without eyes says that she is very thankful that she chose to give her child life.

Lacey and Chris Buchanan were thrilled in 2010 when they discovered God has blessed them with a child.  As Lacey went through her medical checkups, it was discovered that the baby boy would have a cleft palate and lip.

“Our little boy was diagnosed with a bilateral cleft palate and lip,” she told reporters. “We were crushed. How could this happen to us? Why did this happen to us?”

When the child was born via C-section in February 2011, there was a discovery that even the doctors had not seen ahead of time:  the baby was born without eyes.

“Any time we took Christian out in public, people would stare,” Buchanan remembered. “They would whisper behind my back, ‘Look at that baby!’ I even had one girl telling me I was a horrible person for not aborting Christian.”

“I have literally had strangers see a single picture of Christian on Facebook and say ‘If i saw that kid walking down the street, I would murder him.’ They judge that Christian’s life isn’t worth living based on one single picture,” Buchanan writes on her website. “But most of you who know him know how awesome he is and how loved he is and how great his quality of life is.”

Lacey says that God has really used Christian to touch the lives of others and that she knows “I did the right thing by not aborting Christian.”