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[quote=Anonymous]OK.  I posted before.  I aborted a trisomy 18 very much wanted pregnancy two years ago.  I really never gave any thought to the burdens of having a special needs child.  My husband and I had decided years ago If faced with such a pregnancy, we would not continue it.  None of the outcomes were good.  In my mind, the baby was not human because it did not have the chromosomes of a human.  It had extra chromosomes.

Judge me however you will, but I consider this decision is between me and my husband and my God.  God made this choice available to me.  if God didn't like this answer, He shouldn't have allowed science to reach the point of being able to test for such mutations.

What did enter my decision was the quality of life for my older child and children yet to come, including the one I became pregnant with because I chose to terminate the other pregnancy.

I didn't need to see the aborted pregnancy through to the end to earn my martyr badge.  I earned it in the horror of having to make such a decision and to go through the procedure and the aftermath.  I earned it in the constant fear of losing my later pregnancy.

If you haven't walked the walk, including a choice to carry such a pregnancy thru til the end, you don't get to preach to me.  OP, this means you.  This is not me being defensive over my choice, because I never have questioned myself over this.   this is me just being tired of having someone who cannot possibly understand the hormone-amplified devastation I have lived through feel like they have a clue.
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