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Decision Not To Abort Severely Disabled Baby Girl Sparks Debate
Newsweek ^ | April 21, 2022 | Rebecca Flood

Posted on 04/22/2022 10:18:25 AM PDT by Morgana

A man has taken to Reddit to confess he has a severely disabled daughter who he has never met, after informing her mom he was going to "walk away" after she decided not to have an abortion.

In the site's TrueOffMyChest forum, the man, going by username Delicious_Appeal_369, decided to come clean about his feelings towards his daughter.

He explained he and his childhood sweetheart discovered she was pregnant six years ago, when they were 20, and he admitted: "The idea of us getting married, starting a family, and going from best friends to husband and wife was exhilarating."

However, soon after they discovered the pregnancy wasn't "viable"—tests revealed "the fetus suffered from multiple chromosomal/genetic defects and was not developing normally."

In the post, the dad-to-be claims his girlfriend was recommended not to continue with the pregnancy for the sake of her own health.

From that point things soured, as he admitted: "I don't know why, but my ex was insistent on seeing it through. I still to this day do not know why. She and her whole family were not religious. She was liberal in many of her views and always seemed to be pro-choice. Yet, she refused incredibly adamantly to get an abortion, despite them being available to her."

After dating for four years, he walked away when she was 20 weeks, saying: "Another doctor recommended she abort as they were incredibly worried for her own health I told her I could no longer participate in whatever game she was playing. I did not want to play caretaker to a heavily disabled child at the age of 20."

He's never met his daughter but stood by his decision, saying he hasn't regretted it once.

(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: abortion; prolife
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1 posted on 04/22/2022 10:18:25 AM PDT by Morgana
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To: Morgana
The daughter serves God's purpose by revealing that the sperm donor is an unredeemable Mittweasel.

The mother is better off in life.

2 posted on 04/22/2022 10:30:35 AM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: Morgana
He's never met his daughter but stood by his decision, saying he hasn't regretted it once.

He is not meeting her on purpose so as to not regret his "decision". If he has any soul he probably would weep bitterly upon meeting her.

3 posted on 04/22/2022 10:30:43 AM PDT by frogjerk (I will not do business with fascists)
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To: Morgana

Democrats are evil scum.


4 posted on 04/22/2022 10:34:34 AM PDT by stinkerpot65 (Global warming is a Marxist lie. )
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To: Morgana

Abortion increases the risk of breast cancer and other health issues for the mother. Maybe she understood the risks. Unlike the clueless dude she hooked up with.


5 posted on 04/22/2022 10:40:50 AM PDT by grame (May you know more of the love of God Almighty this day!)
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To: Morgana

Th3 afterlife will be hell,for,this fella.if he doesn’t repent and is unsaved. Can’t Imaging he is saved now, but who knows.


6 posted on 04/22/2022 10:42:43 AM PDT by Bob434 (.)
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To: Morgana

He made a choice that will define the rest of his life.


7 posted on 04/22/2022 10:43:28 AM PDT by I-ambush (We watched the moment of defeat, played back over on the video screen. )
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To: Morgana

There is a reason this story is out there.


8 posted on 04/22/2022 10:43:38 AM PDT by georgia peach (georgia peach)
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To: georgia peach

The reason this story now is to dilute conservative power and influence.


9 posted on 04/22/2022 10:52:39 AM PDT by Chickensoup ( Leftists totalitarian fascists are eradicating conservatives)
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To: georgia peach

The comments on the linked story illustrate the ideas that a disabled life is useless & it is a mercy to abort a less than perfect child. Both ideas are self serving if you are the one who would have to support or care for the child.

Not as clear if you are the disabled. How many times have the prenatal diagnoses been wrong and the child born normal? The story vilifies the mother who brought a child into the world to give the child it’s best chance. She “went against” medical advice. She had an obligation to abort/s
If she didn’t abort & he wanted her to he should have no obligation to his child. Left me sick at heart.
May God bless & protect this mother & her child and give mom strength & peace at heart.


10 posted on 04/22/2022 10:53:32 AM PDT by JayGalt (For evil men to accomplish their purpose it is only necessary that good men should do nothing.”)
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To: grame
Abortion increases the risk of breast cancer and other health issues for the mother. Maybe she understood the risks. Unlike the clueless dude she hooked up with.

Having an abortion increased the risk of death to 100%.

11 posted on 04/22/2022 11:13:17 AM PDT by New Perspective (#NotMyPresident -Proud father of a son with DS & fighting to keep him off biden's death panels.)
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To: Morgana

Short video of post birth killing supporters/ghouls.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1517394422648000512


12 posted on 04/22/2022 11:16:16 AM PDT by sockmonkey (Conservative. Not a Neocon.)
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To: Morgana

The one question unanswered (literally) is “Why did she say *nothing* when asked?”

She has several very defensible and persuasive arguments, but not arguing *anything* suggests *something* else is going on.

I knew of a roughly similar case, where the girl clammed up and wouldn’t say anything, one way or another, to her boyfriend. Finally several other young men took it upon themselves to approach her boyfriend and bluntly told him the child was not his. His girlfriend was just trying to “run out the clock”, so he would be the father by default. A variation of the classical ‘badger game’.

In this case, while there is no way of knowing for sure, a little doubt might go a long way.


13 posted on 04/22/2022 11:29:11 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("When a woman thinks alone, she thinks evil", from "Malleus Maleficarum" (1486))
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To: Morgana

While I totally agree with euthanasia for pets, it is EVIL for humans made in God’s image.

Abortion is MURDER!

It was unfortunate the child had abnormalities, but where do you draw that line? Down syndrome kids? Girls, when you wanted a boy?

Also, doctors can be and ARE WRONG all too often. (COVID)

The point is that THERE IS NO LINE!

ALL children MUST BE BORN (unless it will KILL the mother VERY RARE).


14 posted on 04/22/2022 11:31:43 AM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts )
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To: Chickensoup
The reason this story now is to dilute conservative power and influence.

That may be the intention, but it seems to me it has the opposite effect.

15 posted on 04/22/2022 11:34:17 AM PDT by Salman (It's not a "slippery slope" if it was part of the program all along. )
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To: Salman

It is a squirrel to dilute conservative political power.


16 posted on 04/22/2022 11:45:15 AM PDT by Chickensoup ( Leftists totalitarian fascists are eradicating conservatives)
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To: grame

There are some fetal trisomies that can increase the risk of preeclampsia in the mother, which can be threaten her life.

God bless this mother. Keep her safe and strong, and may she find help and comfort to cherish the child for whatever time the Lord grants them.


17 posted on 04/22/2022 12:02:14 PM PDT by heartwood (Someone has to play devil's advocate.)
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To: JayGalt

This s why the libs hated Sarah Palin- she could have had an abortion but had Trigg anyhow.


18 posted on 04/22/2022 12:18:46 PM PDT by ronniesgal (if more folks would mind their own business the world would be a better place.)
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To: Morgana

He couldn’t understand why she wouldn’t murder their child? What a reprobate.


19 posted on 04/22/2022 12:22:12 PM PDT by Trillian
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To: ronniesgal

One of many reasons.


20 posted on 04/22/2022 1:59:28 PM PDT by JayGalt (For evil men to accomplish their purpose it is only necessary that good men should do nothing.”)
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