Posted on 02/28/2022 11:10:49 AM PST by Scarlett156
The mother of a baby with Down's syndrome claims she was 'pressured' into terminating her pregnancy after being told her daughter was 'not going to live'.
Hetty Blakey, from Lincolnshire, says she was left feeling suicidal after staff at Lincoln County hospital 'handed her an abortion leaflet' before even confirming her daughter's condition.
After seeking a second opinion privately, Hetty was told her daughter had Down's syndrome - however doctors felt no need to terminate the pregnancy for medical reasons.
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She had to go through an ordeal to find people who would help her.
This is socialism.
Also, I was mildly surprised to find no one had posted about this yet.
This was done to my ex-wife and I also about 25 years ago. During her pregnancy one of the tests indicated possible downs syndrome. The doctor was very quick to suggest an abortion. We choose to have the baby and my youngest daughter was born perfectly fine.
It’s absolutely incredible how we standard monitor for impending Down’s Syndrome now.
It’s in itself a tense time, just knowing you have to check and may find out something Untoward. It was extra tense for me because I was old and had never had a baby, and they tell us we old women much more likely have DS babies.
But it’s almost as if the medical people WANT to know so they can abort the baby ASAP.
They don’t test for too many other issues, not standard, anyway.
First they want you to kill it because “it’s not going to have a good life”. Then when its born the 2-faced liberals gleefully parade how “caring” they are by propping up all the organizations regarding DS and speaking in fawning concern for them.
Libs, we know you thought they should be dead.
Yes I’ve heard of quite a few false positives.
So glad all worked out.
Lucky you weren’t living in Iceland.
I worked with a pilot who was with his wife at the dr off ice and was asked about a test to determine if their child had Down syndrome. He and his wife refused and said they didn’t want to know, that they would love the baby no matter what.
So much manipulation on the part of the big govt/medical establishment.
Sex-specific abortion has devastated parts of the middle east, asia, and india. This leading to forced abortion, which has been going on in China and other places for a long time. Government knows best!
I know from my work that genetic testing for potential birth defects goes on long past 10 weeks. For Down syndrome a person in the UK can abort at 20 or so weeks.
I recently read in the UK Daily Mail that a gal gave birth to a premature baby at about 20 weeks, within the legal limit for abortion. There was a pic of her and her teeny tiny infant that lived.
(Note: I think some of those people in the UK are getting onboard the “there’s no good reason to kill an unborn infant” train.)
The “doctor” was very quick to suggest abortion because MONEY.
There’s no reason beyond Down syndrome infants have perfectly viable internal organs. KA-CHING.
Socialized medicine (like in the UK) means that your choices in the matter are quite limited. Read the story - it’s very interesting. The mother and dad had to search for hospitals that would accommodate them. Finally had to give birth at home. The baby has Down syndrome and predictable heart abnormalities.
Also, the NHS in UK wants for people to get sex changes on the taxpayer dime.
The “complicated pregnancy” doctors are - at least half of them or more - hoping that an “elderly gravida” (I think a pregnant gal over the age of 38 or so?) will decide to abort so they can cash in.
I really have to wonder about the reliability of this test. I know two people that were to be Downs and the parents refused to terminate. Neither were born with it. One is now a network engineer and the other is a professional hockey player.
We as a nation should really seriously question these tests.
I know of another person (different condition) that the doctors said would “never be more than a vegetable, wont even ever learn to sit up” who is now an architect.
Maybe its not so much the tests as the interpretation. The person that graduates at the bottom of their class is still called “doctor”.
When I was shopping for OBs during my first pregnancy, I went to a hospital that allowed midwives to do the delivery, but there would be an OBGYN on call in case of an emergency. The doctor I saw talked me through what the next 7 months would look like. She said I’d have the option to do prenatal testing and terminate if I wished. I just got up and walked out right there. She was shocked, as I don’t think that had ever happened to her. All I remember about her personally was that her hands were ice cold, and weirdly skinny. Like shaking hands with a golem. In that initial handshake I thought to myself, “I don’t want these hands to be the first thing my baby feels coming into this world.”
In retrospect it makes me wonder how many babies she had killed.
My understanding is first they take measurements in sonogram. If they have a suspicion they do a sample of amniotic fluid (needle thru the belly). Don’t know the nature of that check but the US thing can obviously be very dicey.
As a patient dealing with lots of issues, I know too well how inexact everything is and how they can’t just diagnose with exact tests either. Almost nothing is cut nd dried in medical.
Thanks for posting. O.o
One of the doctors testifying about the SARS-CoV2 vaccines said he didn’t test patients to know what was wrong with them. He treated them for their presenting complaints. There are so many ways that tests can go wrong. Meanwhile an intuitive, learned doctor can start treating the patient - in the case of a pregnant woman, patients - without having to wait for tests.
These tests for genetic abnormalities are enriching baby-part-sellers like Planned Parenthood. They get rich off selling organs and parts from fetuses aborted at 20+ weeks.
During my pregnancies when I was 31 and 33, the pressure to get tested was INTENSE! I had to say no 100 times! Maybe only 20, but you get the point.
“Why risk the 1% chance of killing my baby in a test that will not change anything about the pregnancy?”
“Don’t you want to be prepared?”
“Do you know anyone who’s prepared to become a parent?”
End of conversation.
Yeah. And then we all found out that it’s really the dolla bills. The test isn’t supposed to help you get ready for having a kid: It’s so they can leverage you for those all-important dead baby parts.
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