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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you can feel your baby move, have heard the heartbeat, and interact with it- but you still think it's a good idea to rip it apart by it's limbs, throw it on a table, and piece it back together; as opposed to letting things occur naturally...then there is something wrong with you. 
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Well, it kind of depends what you mean with "letting things occur naturally" if that means giving birth to a T18 child that will die within a few days after giving birth. Unlike some of the anti-abortion posters I will not go into too much graphic detail, but T18 is a very, very tragic syndrome.

It is not about "something is wrong with you". It is about making choices a parent has to make: what is in the best interest of the unborn child.

From reading your response, you would make another decision -- that is your right. But don't make it sound like it's an easy choice.[/quote]

Thank you, PP for so eloquently saying what couldn't.   I spent days researching when I discovered my baby has T18 desperately trying to find a good outcome. The longest "good" outcome anyone could find was a little girl who lived to be 4, then died after dozens of trips to the hospital in her short life and many surgeries.   There is no good outcome in trisomy 18, only death.  What a mother has control over is how and when if she knows the diagnosis in utero.   The how may not be pleasant, but neither is the alternative.  No one wins here.  There is only grief.

And many posters here seem to forget that the mother and family still grieve even in a TMR.  It's as if someone who chooses to terminate no longer deserves compassion, when she needs it most.  [/quote]

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