Posted on 02/07/2023 2:16:23 AM PST by Recovering_Democrat
Anabely Lopes wanted a child more than anything, so the 44-year-old was ecstatic when she became pregnant last year — and then devastated when doctors said her unborn child had a fatal abnormality...
A new law restricting abortion access had gone into effect days earlier, and Lopes soon found herself on a plane, leaving South Florida to get an abortion at a clinic in Washington.
On Tuesday, Lopes will return to Washington, this time accompanying U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz to President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address...
(Excerpt) Read more at miamiherald.com ...
I want to hear from the two doctors she’s claiming were too afraid to write letters saying she needed an abortion.
I’m so sorry that your beloved son is not able to be with you now. Your situation is different from Ms. Lopes in that she aborted a live baby. Doctors have told other mothers with similar a diagnosis that their babies wouldn’t make it beyond certain ages only to be proven wrong.
I think the qualifier in the article was “Most babies...who are born alive will live for at least a year”. There are some adult survivors, the oldest one in the U.S. being 40. Her mother was told she would not live past 4 months. The oldest U.S. male survivor almost made it to 23. According to the following article, many that survive birth make it past 8 years of age. Of course, that’s not speaking to the development and medical problems trisomy causes.
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/trisomy-18-kids-bella-santorum-rick-santorums-daughter/story?id=16090571 (Article title - Trisomy 18 and 13: More Children Like Bella Santorum Survive)
The heartache of the families cannot be imagined by those of us who haven’t been affected personally. It’s disgusting that the Democrats gleefully turn a family into a photo-/fundraising-op and will then drop Ms. Lopes like a hot potato once the donations decrease.
No; you can't abort an unborn child in states with an exception for the life of the mother.
Many times we've read stories posted here of babies whom doctors said would be born disabled, and the docs were wrong. Other families cherish the chance to hold and love a disabled baby before it dies. Truly heroic families raise disabled kids who live, and many of those kids probide great joy.
As another freeper posted above, at 44 years old, certainly she knew there were risks of a disabled baby, and she also knows very well where she lives. So just make the arrangements you need to make, lady; no need to inflict political drama. If you wanted a healthy child, maybe you could have started on your own spiritual, mental and physical health a lot earlier.
probide = provide
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