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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Who in the hell is forcing women to terminate pregnancies?! I'm 04/22/2012 09:14 and am very pro-choice but that doesn't mean I think women should be coerced or force to abort! Speak up where this is happening and I'm sure we can get DCUM to start a rally.[/quote]

You have no idea.  Have YOU ever faced an "incompatible with life" diagnosis?  You have a lot to say about raising SN kids (and I don't question your perspective), but you just have no idea about receving this type of diagnosis and what happens after that.  You just don't.  [/quote]

I haven't had an "incompatible with life" diagnosis but I had 4 CSVs and genetic counseling.  Never, not once, did anyone pressure me to terminate.  The doctors were clear on what challenges we might face but that wasn't pressure, that was not sugar coating the reality as some on this thread have been doing.  The doctors/genetic counselors did a pretty good job in describing the challenges but that still didn't sufficiently prepare us for what we're going through.  If you consider someone telling you the likely impacts of your decision as 'coercion' or 'pressuring' you to terminate then we're just going have to disagree.  [/quote]

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