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  • Miss D Aborts Anencephalic Child after Renouncing “Surgical Abortion”

    05/24/2007 10:32:21 PM PDT · by monomaniac · 17 replies · 1,355+ views
    LifeSiteNews.com ^ | May 24, 2007 | Hilary White
    LEINSTER, May 24, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Despite her earlier announcement that she had decided against abortion, it seems that “Miss D”, the Irish teenaged mother at the centre of a recent controversial court case, has aborted her anencephalic child after all. The 17 year-old mother had been four months pregnant and under the care of the Health Services Executive (HSE) of the Republic of Ireland when she came into the public eye. A much publicized court-case in which she was involved centred around the effort to gain permission for her to travel to Britain to have her child aborted. Ireland...
  • Grief, Gratitude and Baby Lee (Severely Disabled newbron brings grief, pride peace to mom)

    01/29/2006 10:19:52 AM PST · by Mrs. Don-o · 17 replies · 500+ views
    The Los Angles Times ^ | January 28, 2006 | Stephanie Simon
    WICHITA, Kan. —'Can I do this?' his mother agonized, knowing one of her newborns would not live. But for 43 hours, he was hers to cherish. She wanted to honor her son, to celebrate his life, however short. That's why she had refused an abortion, even after doctors told her that her little boy would be born without a brain. Now he was here, squirming in his blankets... The specialists she consulted offered Danielle a "selective reduction": They could abort the malformed twin. That might give her a better chance of carrying the healthy baby to term, but there was...