She does not have to keep the baby if it lives! Tennessee has safe haven laws and thousands would adopt the kid.
No one is making these women keep a disabled child they can’t raise. We are just saying don’t kill them.
“We are just saying don’t kill them.”
Then you choose to bring a baby into the world that will have a very sgort life, with horrible possibilities?
Babies with trisomy 13 will have a characteristic group of problems that may include the following: microcephaly (small head size), cleft lip and/or cleft palate (facial and/or oral defect), omphalocele (abdominal defect), spina bifida (open spine defect), microphthalmia (small eyes), anophthalmia (absent eyes), scalp defects, polydactyly (extra fingers and toes), cryptorchidism (undescended testes), omphalocele (infant’s intestines, liver or other organs stick outside of the belly), holoprosencephaly (anatomic defect of the brain involving the forebrain), kidney defects, and skin defects of the scalp. About 80% of infants with Trisomy 13 will have a heart defect as well. The type of heart defect varies, but most often would be a ventricular septal defect (opening between the lower heart chambers), an atrial septal defect (opening between the upper heart chambers), a patent ductus arteriosus (a blood vessel from fetal life that does not close), or dextrocardia, which is a location of the heart on the right side of the chest instead of the left side.
And you’ll notice the list of problems in the above list did not say might, or could. It said will have one or more of many of the defects. So if you choose to put a child through this for the limited time they can survive, that’s your choice. She chose not to torture the child with a life like this even as brief as it will be as 80% will not survive past the first month of life. It’s a choice that had to be made.
As for adoption, adopting a child with the above problems is not something most parents choose to try. If they survive leaving the hospital, which 40 to 45% don’t, then they are normally placed in foster with care givers trained to assist them. Not much of a life and can be painful to include surgeries. I don’t envy her making that choice.
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