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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My story:  During a routine ultrasound, the doctors discovered cysts on my babies brain.  After more testing, she (the baby) was diagnosed with Trisomy 18.  I was advised to consider terminating the pregnancy.  As many of you likely know, trisomy 18 is incompatible with life.  Most babies that aren't miscarried die within days.  Some live a little longer.  And there is one story of a child living to age 10.  I am very much pro-life.  This pregnancy made me face the reality of my pro-life position head on.  But how could I bring a child into the world knowing that she likely wouldn't live past a few days.  And knowing that those days would be spent in pain.

It was horrible position.  I cried.  I prayed for guidance.  And I cried some more.  I prayed some more.  And ultimately chose not to terminate.

The tests were wrong.  That baby is now 18.  She is a National Merit Scholar with a 4.45 GPA.

I can't help but think, what if I had terminated?[/quote]

Did you do an amnio?  The thing is, that by doing the amnio you were already compromising your pro-life values, given the miscarriage risk.  The "what if" question is important for making personal calculations, but it sort of interferes with proper evaluation of the costs & benefits of the test.  Terminating a mistakenly diagnosed trisomy 18 baby is, in my opinion, not morally different from causing a miscarriage to a healthy baby by amnio.[/quote]

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