One woman shares why abortion at 21 weeks was the best choice for her family: 'No one can ever imagine until they live through it'

Yahoo ^ | June 17, 2022 | Brittany Jones-Cooper

[Morgana]

Last month, when a leaked Supreme Court draft opinion indicated that judges were preparing to overturn Roe v. Wade and the Biden administration started weighing its options, New York writer April Salazar was one person watching the news very closely. That's because the right to abortion had been vital to her not so long ago.

Salazar and her husband, back in 2013, had made the decision to have an abortion when she was far along in her pregnancy — 21 weeks gestation — after doctors discovered their in-utero son had a lethal birth defect.

“It was very surprising to find myself, in my mid-30s and happily married and wanting so badly to be a mom, and to find myself needing an abortion,” Salazar tells Yahoo Life. “No one can ever imagine until they live through it, and unfortunately the people making choices for us are the people who will never live through it.”

Salazar had had a difficult time conceiving, and ultimately went through eight rounds of IUI to become pregnant that first time. After getting through her first trimester, Salazar remembers breathing a sigh of relief, believing that her unborn baby had made it through the most uncertain phase of pregnancy. But an anatomy scan at 18 weeks would reveal the devastating diagnosis.

“I knew that we were going to see a lot of images of our baby. I was actually squeezing my husband's arm in excitement,” recalls Salazar. “During that appointment we got our initial diagnosis — that our baby had lethal skeletal dysplasia."

Skeletal dysplasia is the medical term for a group of 400 conditions that affect bone development, neurological function and cartilage growth. Many cases can be diagnosed via ultrasound, and severe cases can be fatal.

[pepsi_junkie]

One woman shares why abortion at 21 weeks was the best choice for her family: 'No one can ever imagine until they live through it'

It's even more impactful for the ones who don't live through an abortion.

[Secret Agent Man]

Women deliberately intentionally murder their baby and still THEY are the victims.

Despicably hypocritical to the extreme.

Its why many men are wising up.

[Reddy]

Sickening.

[Reddy]

Not sure what you mean, but referencing the article the equivalent would be finding out your grown child had terminal cancer and killing them immediately.

[DoodleBob]

Hi, welcome! I’m a writer and storyteller, which means I stand on stage in front of strangers, hoping for those mind-melding silences. (I’ll settle for laughter, too.) I've written for The New York Times and I've told stories on The Moth Radio Hour and NPR's Latino USA. I also appeared in a Planned Parenthood video, where I shared my heartbreaking choice. I'm a proud Chicana and ride or die to a sweet little girl. You can read about my quest to make my grandma's tortillas with her in the anthology SisterWriterEaters, edited by Claire LaZebnik and Ann Brown.

[Guenevere]

Amen!

[ifinnegan]

Another article in the Ministry of Truth coordinated propaganda campaign.

[Jolla]

I disagree with you.

[Tennessee Nana]

But that family member, your child didnt live through it ...

He died ...

[Guenevere]

I know a couple who had 4 healthy children and was pregnant with her 5th……
….and the doctors discovered he would only survive birth for a few hours…

They immediately opted to carry him through and I happened to be there the night he was born

He was beautiful, and looked ….perfect!

I remember seeing the couple cuddling and praying with their baby until he was with God.
They are Christians……all lives matter.

[Tennessee Nana]

Anything the abortionist says it is just to coerce the female to let them kill the child

[BipolarBob]

that our baby had lethal skeletal dysplasia."

Let God take it. WHY have blood on your hands?? If you can kill your neighbor and get away with it, would you?

[Valpal1]

I would never trust medical tests to be fool proof. I’d rather trust God that He would be there with me to deal with whatever happens.

A stillborn baby to cradle for a moment, to mourn and to bury is a better choice than flushing it as medical waste and treating a child as a defective designer product.

These people aren’t right in the heart because their heads are full of leftist mush.

[Ann Archy]

So you KILL it???

[Guenevere]

The headline says it all….
….and her baby didn’t live through it

[cuban leaf]

My wife’s first child was given up to adoption when she was 17. 2 years later they reconciled and he is an awesome addition to the family. Meanwhile, another girl in our same high school class had three abortions before she was out of high school. Yes, this is before roe v wade.

[cuban leaf]

There was some concern about our son’s wife’s pregnancy being a dwarf and they may want to terminate the pregnancy. She carried the baby to full term. She is now one of the most vibrant 12-year-old girls you’ll ever meet. She is a little bit small for her age but nothing abnormal.

And my humble opinion these people are terribly narcissistic.

[faucetman]

Sickening!

MURDER.

It is UNKNOWN whether the baby could survive. Doctors can be wrong, often ARE!

I want a PERFECT baby.

Lady, you sold your soul for your own convenience.

“You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.”

And you can’t fool God, anytime.

[Paal Gulli]

'No one can ever imagine until they live through it'

Your baby will ever have that opportunity, now will it?

[chopperk]

Who speaks for the baby she killed.