U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Weston, said Monday she is bringing Anabely Lopes, a Hallandale Beach woman who terminated “a very wanted” pregnancy when her fetus was diagnosed with trisomy 18, also called Edwards’ syndrome, last summer. Those who survive the pregnancy are still likely to die once born.
“We felt it was our duty to protect our daughter from the inevitable suffering if she were to make it to term,” Lopes said, in tears.
It was a baby she had wanted, having her previous pregnancy result in a miscarriage.
She said she was turned away from a pregnancy clinic in Tamarac because her test results took too long to come back, and she was now just one day past the legal limit for an abortion when she got the confirmation results.
Last year Florida’s governor signed a 15-week abortion ban into law with no exceptions. ***
On Monday, Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz comforts Anabely Lopes, a Hallandale Beach resident, who said she had to leave the state for an abortion. Lopes will be Wasserman Schultz’s guest at President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address to Congress on Tuesday.
On Monday, Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz comforts Anabely Lopes, a Hallandale Beach resident, who said she had to leave the state for an abortion. Lopes will be Wasserman Schultz’s guest at President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address to Congress on Tuesday.
Lopes said she had to leave Florida to Washington, D.C., for the procedure at 16 weeks and three days. She said she was so distraught she considered suicide. “It was very painful for me to decide to do this,” she cried.
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***Lie! Rape, incest, life of mother in danger are the exceptions. Ms. Lopes did not meet the qualifications.
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http://www.nhs.uk › conditions › edwards-syndrome
Edwards’ syndrome (trisomy 18) - NHS
Apr 20, 2022Most babies with this type of Edward’s syndrome who are born alive will live for at least a year, and they may live to adulthood. Partial Edwards’ syndrome A very small number of babies with Edwards’ syndrome (about 1 in 100) have only a section of the extra chromosome 18 in their cells, rather than a whole extra chromosome 18.
We lost our child to trisomy 18. The last paragraph of this article is complete bunk. The *vast* majority of babies don’t even survive the pregnancy, and the tiny fraction that do are highly unlikely to survive even a year past the birth. I would challenge the author to cite any case where someone survived to adulthood. Trisomy 18 is diagnosed in the womb through the identification of substantial physical abnormalities, including a severely enlarged heart.
We lost our son at 4 months gestation when his heart stopped. They gave my wife an abortifacient a few days later to make it easier to remove the corpse, and she ended up actually delivering in the ER before they could perform the evacuation. Because he was delivered intact, the hospital was very interested in examining his body. We declined to allow them to perform any physical dissection, as we wanted to give him a proper burial, but did permit them to do any non-intrusive tests. They actually drove one of those truck mounted scan machines up from Boston, and a whole troop of medical students came up to see our son.
Apr 20, 2022Most babies with this type of Edward’s syndrome who are born alive will live for at least a year, and they may live to adulthood
I have heard stories of babies who survived trisomy 18, so the media and Rats are lying (as usual) in order to push their baby killing agenda.
Isnt having lots of abortions the cause for beaucoup miscarriages?