Child born without cerebellum is learning to walk.

Wesley Smith points to an amazing story about a child who was born without the portion of his brain that controls the human ability to learn is learning to walk.  He's also learning to talk and is potty-trained.

Smith also points out that in the Netherlands, this child would have been drafted into the organ banks over his parents' objections:

This child wasn’t technically anencephalic, but in the Netherlands, he would have qualified for extermination under the Groningen Protocol, by which Dutch doctors euthanize infants with terminal and seriously disabling conditions. They kill infants in Belgium, too. And no doubt, he might have been treated as a lost cause in most countries.


But the moral of the story is that all of us should be treated as fully human, no matter how dire our seeming circumstances. And sometimes there is no suppressing the power of human will, and if you will, what is often called the human spirit.