{"id":170696,"date":"2017-08-16T11:54:01","date_gmt":"2017-08-16T15:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=170696"},"modified":"2017-08-16T14:03:17","modified_gmt":"2017-08-16T18:03:17","slug":"95-chance-die-birth-kadens-parents-refused-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/95-chance-die-birth-kadens-parents-refused-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"With a 95 percent chance he would die at birth, Kaden’s parents refused abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Five-year-old Kaden Casebolt<\/a> adores superheroes. But in his own right, he is a superhero himself. He has beaten the odds stacked against him since before he was even born and he has overcome a seemingly endless stream of broken bones and surgeries, proving that his life is as valuable and viable as anyone else’s. He was predicted to die at birth, but Kaden proved the predictions wrong.<\/p>\n

“I’m very glad that I didn’t listen to the doctors that told me that he wouldn’t live or walk or do anything,” said Kaden’s mother Valorie Salsman in a video for BBC<\/a>. “If I did listen to them I wouldn’t have a strong little boy doing everything they said he couldn’t do.”<\/p>\n

Diagnosed with Osteogenesis Imperfecta (also known as brittle bone disease) at five months gestation, Kaden was given a five percent chance of surviving after birth. He already had about nine fractures that were healing when he was in the womb. His parents were advised to abort him.<\/p>\n

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