Posted on 02/29/2020 4:37:41 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Ten weeks into my first pregnancy, I had a miscarriage. It was really devastating. My doctor said, ‘You know, this happens all the time and there’s no reason for you to not try again when you’re ready.’
So, a month later, I was pregnant again. We made it through the first trimester with no problems. Then we started to get some concerning blood test results and my pregnancy was elevated to be high risk. I was transferred to a high risk maternal fetal medicine obstetrician in New York City and was highly monitored, getting checks every couple of weeks, and as the weeks went on the complications racked up.
Over time, serious muscular issues came to light, like bilateral club feet, and the hands were always clenched tightly in every ultrasound. There was very little fetal movement, my amniotic fluid was really really high and most concerning, the fetus was not growing. These were things that my doctors couldn’t have known until the third trimester. Eventually our doctor determined the fetus was not swallowing. Swallowing is how a developing baby practices breathing — no swallowing, no breathing, that’s it.
We asked our doctor what would happen if I carried to term, and he said I would likely give birth to a baby who would choke for a few moments and then die. We got that information at 30 weeks.
At that point, there were really no good options for us. Taking all of the data and information that we had collected on this pregnancy over the eight months, we tried to make the best decision that we could live with. We wanted to alleviate suffering the best as we could and stay true to our own morals and values.
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Nobody, NOBODY ever, ever “needs” an abortion. Just like NOBODY ever “needs” a contract wet-work murderer.
Golly gee whillickers - what if they find a defect after the baby is born within the first 24 hours? Should you have the moral right to put it down then?
First week?
First 2 weeks?
Or does it only count while the umbilical is still connected?
What if they had found this out at 8 1/2 months? Would that have justified killing their child?
Too many women enjoy murdering their babies a “pretending” they do not.
JoMa
Liberals have absolute contempt for human life that’s not their own.
Perhaps up to 18 years...
Why post this trash on this forum, especially without a warning. Trolls aren’t appreciated here.
Doctors make mistakes. Perhaps they needed to harvest certain organs that day, for some big bucks. I used to think this kind of thing was not possible, but I no longer give the medical community the benefit of the doubt.
Everyone knows of a family who have a kid who developed (or manifested) very challenging problems when they were 30 weeks gestational, four days neonatal, 18 months, three years, eight, fifteen. I know two families whose sons did not develop schizophrenia until their early 20's. Physically healthy, mentally/emotionally almost untreatable, prognosis for future "quality of life" ... low. (((sigh)))
But at which ages would you say a proper treatment would be crushing of the head, or death by dismemberment?
Abortion does not call into question the unborn baby's humanity, but our own.
I really don’t get the impression from reading the article that she was in any imminent danger healthwise herself from the pregnancy. It sounds as if the abortion was more risky than progressing with the pregnancy and having more frequent monitoring.
There was always the chance the doctors were wrong about how severe the baby’s problems were. She will never know.
A friend of the family’s baby died two months before the due date. She had to carry the baby until natural labor and give birth because her doctor determined taking it or inducing labor early was a health risk to her.
She went on to get pregnant again, have a healthy baby, and then get pregnant six weeks after giving birth.
Since the average Democrat voter can’t divide by 4, they think 32 weeks is early in the pregnancy.
And no, an abortion at 8 months is not medically safer for the mother than giving birth. Less safe by far.
Schizophrenia is a terrible condition.
Quick!
Kill my baby!
Before it dies!
It is. It truly is.
Early she says the perils of delivery were an argument for an abortion. Then the procedure involved killing the child and delivering it. So, since delivery was in the cards anyway, how is it an argument for the abortion?
Intellectually, there's no argument.
Thank you for what you wrote. I think you are exactly right.
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