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I am told the genetic test shows positive for Down Syndrome. I am told to come to the office on Monday, a doc would be available to talk to me in the afternoon….<\/em><\/p>\n

It seems like everyone has figured out the next step \u2013 it is a given. The pregnancy has become unwanted…. Only much later do I resent the one-sidedness of it all. Only much later do I regret not having made a real choice.<\/em><\/p>\n

On Monday, at Kaiser, we meet with the doc and the genetic counsellor. The path is self-evident. The right thing to do is to terminate the pregnancy. I am told that since I am not that far along in order to go through induced labor, the procedure that is called for \u2013 D&E \u2013 cannot be done at Kaiser. This procedure is outsourced to Planned Parenthood….<\/em><\/p>\n

The building looks industrial and dreary. The atmosphere inside is cold and silent. The \u2018patients\u2019 are separated from their chaperones by a locked secure door. There are 10-15 women, and the process is like a conveyor belt, each of us taking her turn one after the other at each stage of process. There is hardly any talk among us. I sit enwrapped in my grief, and feel alone in it \u2013 no one shares it. I see none of it reflected in other faces of other women or of the staff….<\/em><\/p>\n

There is no follow up by Kaiser or by Planned Parenthood. No support, no counseling, no discussion, no processing….<\/em><\/p>\n

I felt betrayed by Kaiser, having sent me to a place where there was such a discrepancy between what I felt and the surrounding atmosphere…. The baby, both physically and spiritually was just tossed away. I regret that. I regret not having followed through with a few ideas I had of commemorating the boy, which I even had a name for.<\/em><\/p>\n

The one thing I did several months later was ask for a meeting with the genetic counsellor, to tell her that I wish there was more than one voice in the decision process \u2013 that someone would have talked to me of the option of delivering the child and raising it.<\/em><\/p>\n

~ Rose, who aborted her baby boy with Down Syndrome, as quoted by Tami Jackson at SavingOurFuture.com<\/a>, February 10<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am told the genetic test shows positive for Down Syndrome. I am told to come to the office on Monday, a doc would be available to talk to me in the afternoon…. It seems like everyone has figured out the next step \u2013 it is a given. The pregnancy has become unwanted…. 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