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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]What if a diagnosis was missed prenatally, and discovered at birth? Would you give your newborn a lethal injection to the heart then? Or is it only compassionate when your child is still inside your body? [/quote]

This.  And also, what if the diagnosis made prenatally was wrong.  We were advised to consider terminating a pregnancy after prenatal testing revealed Trisomy 18.  We were told that it was unlikely our daughter would be born alive.  And that if she were, she would probably die within her first weeks of life.  We were counseled to terminate to avoid putting our daughter through unnecessary pain.

They were wrong.  I delivered a perfectly healthy baby.  That baby is now 18.  She is a national merit scholar who just received a full academic scholarship to college.  Medicine isn't perfect.  I can't help but remember that we considered ending the pregnancy.  I am pro-life.  But I will say that it is really easy to be pro-life when you aren't faced with the choice.  I wavered on my pro-life stance and considered abortion after the diagnosis.  I am thankful every single day that we chose to continue the pregnancy.  I honestly wish I hadn't even been offered the choice.[/quote]

I am a PP who had an abortion in the second trimester due to fatal prenatal diagnosis.  Your heart injection question doesn't make any sense - do you understand what fatal means?  My baby was malformed with misplaced and missing organs.  She lacked lung tissue - so she would not have been able to breath.

To the other poster - I am very glad your daughter is healthy, alive, and thriving.  However, you have to understand that many people have a much different reality and there isn't always a happy ending.    Your wonderful outcome doesn't negate that other people's babies are fatally sick.  Of course doctor's can be wrong - most intelligent people get numerous opinions and have additional testing before making a decision to terminate.    [/quote]

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