Posted on 05/18/2015 8:37:02 PM PDT by Morgana
A story on Yahoo! Parenting tells of a woman who chose to have an abortion at 36 weeks, believing it was the right choice for her situation. Writer Rachel Bertsche shares the story of Kate, a 29-year-old mother outside Boston, who had a late-term abortion after she learned her daughter had a brain abnormality. Kate chose abortion even after she was offered adoption as an option.
The story is heartbreaking— almost like a woman who had a miscarriage and is grieving. But despite the circumstance of a baby who suffered from a brain malformation, the truth of the matter is that Kate and her husband opted to kill their daughter.
Baby Rose was, indeed, sick. She had a “severe presentation” of Dandy-Walker syndrome, which is “a congenital brain malformation involving the cerebellum (an area at the back of the brain that controls movement) and the fluid filled spaces around it.”
The Dandy-Walker Alliance website has many stories of families who chose to keep their child, despite recommendations to abort late into pregnancy; however, Kate says her decision was the best option for her. Kate says her husband first suggested abortion:
“On the way home, even though I knew what I wanted to do, I couldn’t say the word. What kind of mother is eight months pregnant and wants an abortion? I turned to my husband and said, ‘Tell me what you think we should do.’ He said, ‘Kate, you do not have to do this, but I think we should ask about the abortion.’
“It was a gift. It felt like light and fresh air. I had been feeling so dark and so trapped, and when I realized we were together on this, I felt free. I knew what to do. It didn’t matter anymore that people were going to call me a murderer, or that I’d never heard of anyone doing this. It didn’t matter that we didn’t even know if it was legal. If I had my husband, I could do this.”
Kate admits something else, too, as she describes her resolve to get an abortion. Because Kate believed it was perhaps too late to get a legal abortion, she decided if she could not get an abortion, she would leave baby Rose alone to die after birth:
“If we can’t get the abortion, I’m going to run away somewhere rural and I’m going to have this baby by myself and let her die without intervention.”
But for $25,000, the Boulder Abortion Clinic in Colorado was willing to do an abortion for Kate, who was on a plane with her husband a few days later. Her parents took the $25,000 from their retirement fund to pay to abort their grandchild. The procedure took four days:
“The second and third days were short appointments, so we took a nice drive through the Rockies to pass the time. Then on the fourth day, they induced my labor. I got Pitocin, and it was actually a very natural birth. It was quite healing for me.
“I couldn’t do anything for this baby — I couldn’t fix her brain or make her well, but I could deliver her from my body. I chose to view her, so they cleaned her up and brought her in and she looked a lot like my older daughter. She was beautiful and she was whole. I got her footprints and had her cremated and they sent us her ashes in the mail a few days later. We wanted to name her after a flower, so we called her Rose.
“Ten days after we had that 35-week ultrasound, she was gone.”
Soon after, Kate says:
“My 30th birthday party was scheduled for the Sunday after we got home — two days after I gave birth to Rose. It was only for close family and friends, so I decided not to cancel. I told people that the baby died and that we induced a stillbirth. I didn’t tell them I went to Colorado. I didn’t tell them the baby died because we gave her an injection.”
The mother’s narrative almost sounds like a tragic miscarriage, rather than a miscarriage of justice for an innocent child.
While it’s clearly understandable that Kate and her husband felt intense grief, confusion and devastation, her open attitude that her baby would die one way or another— even if it meant leaving the child alone to die — is devastating.
In this case, medical personnel even offered to arrange an adoption, but that was not an option for Kate. Without question, this was a tragic pregnancy; however, the tragedy lies in the parents’ decision that baby Rose should not have a chance to live.
As Kate told her eldest daughter who asked about the baby in her belly on a regular basis: “No, honey. Baby died. Baby’s all gone.”
It is heartbreaking that late-term abortions are a legal procedure in our nation.
This witch murdered a child who would have smiled a lot, in my expert medical opinion.
Some day her children will confront her with the truth.
when this woman is old and can’t take care of hersellf without help her daughter will treat her like she treated Rose.
Misleading title ping.
The baby was 8 months old....in utero. I will admit the author of this story should have made that more clear in the title.
Some day Jehovah will confront her with the truth.
Actually, what is misleading is the tradition of counting the first day out of the womb as “day one,” when in fact the child has been living and growing in the womb for many months.
Tradition is often conveniently deceptive.
It’s like the claim that WW2 started the day the US had declared war, or the assertion that the Gulf War began the day the US drove Iraq from Kuwait in Op Desert Storm , when in fact WW2 had been going on for years, and the Gulf War really began when Iraq invaded Kuwait, before we deployed a single soldier.
People lose jobs, friends, family...
Scholarships, acceptances,
are shunned, despised, “unfriended”
for wanting to share stories like this.
Huh?
You’re right about the smiling. My 19 year old baby sister was born with the dandy-walker syndrome of the corpus collosum (sp?) which I understand is the wiring we got linking our left and right brain lobes. Phoebe is the light of all our lives and the thought of that soulless, murdering pig killing a baby like her just made me have to lay this phone down and grieve foe that poor baby. These creatures have no souls. They butcher our most innocent. I refuse to pray for their salvation because if they do something so heinous and fiendish, I hope for their damnation. It takes a truly evil demon to even think of aborting a special needs baby. A special kind of scum deserving of a special kind of hell.
RIP poor little rose.
I know someone that freaked out, I mean went totally off the edge, seemingly out of the clear blue one day. They weren't really a friend but a co-worker that I had lunch with once or twice. Why did she go from seemingly normal to being physically taken in for mental health problems by the police? She visited a classroom that had four children with Downs Syndrome. They are four great kids, funny and uplifting. She aborted her “might have” Downs baby. She later told others the doctors had never told her children with Downs were “so normal” (her words not mine). It proved to me women don't just “get over” an abortion. Her abortion had been years earlier.
“My 30th birthday party was scheduled for the Sunday after we got home — two days after I gave birth to Rose. It was only for close family and friends, so I decided not to cancel. I told people that the baby died and that we induced a stillbirth. I didn’t tell them I went to Colorado. I didn’t tell them the baby died because we gave her an injection.”
If what she did was so “kind”, so “just”, why didn’t she tell her birthday guests about it?
Maybe because at least some of them are decent human beings and would treat he as the ogre that she is?
How could a human being be so cold as to kill an unborn child that was near term for convenience and have a party afterwards? These are not worthy of being called animals. They are vermin.
This has me bawling. Literally.
If she didn’t want her, why didn’t she put her up for adoption?
As an adopted child myself, it’s a better option than abortion.
I haven’t seen you here Morgana since New Years. Hope you are ok.
Infanticide is the new Parenting.
I would hope that every birthday of this millennial twat’s, she is reminded of the birthday she prevented. People that make these sort of “choices” ought to face permanent sterilization as a prophylactic.
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