{"id":171192,"date":"2017-08-28T16:47:44","date_gmt":"2017-08-28T20:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=171192"},"modified":"2017-09-01T14:49:58","modified_gmt":"2017-09-01T18:49:58","slug":"mom-ovarian-cancer-rejected-abortion-saved-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/mom-ovarian-cancer-rejected-abortion-saved-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother with ovarian cancer rejects abortion and gives birth to a healthy baby"},"content":{"rendered":"
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For many women, ovarian cancer is one of the most terrifying diagnoses they could ever receive. The cancer is a silent killer, with difficult-to-recognize symptoms. When found early, the survival rate is excellent — 92% — but because the symptoms are so vague, easily mistaken for other common women’s issues like PMS or pregnancy, they are often overlooked. This allows the cancer to grow, and when caught later, at Stage III or higher, the prognosis is significantly poorer.<\/p>\n

This is exactly what could have happened to Aleks Patete, if it hadn’t been for her baby boy. Patete was seven weeks pregnant when she went to get a routine ultrasound — one she would not have been able to obtain from Planned Parenthood<\/a> unless she had wanted an abortion — and a cyst was found on her ovary. Patete was diagnosed with ovarian cancer<\/a>. “It\u2019s a miracle,” Patete said in an interview with People magazine. “The cancer could have progressed a lot further, and we would have had no idea if it wasn\u2019t for my pregnancy. God sent DJ to save my life.”<\/p>\n

But doctors evidently didn’t agree. They told Patete and her husband that her best chance of survival was to have an abortion<\/a>, and then undergo an aggressive regimen of chemotherapy.\u00a0But Patete refused, and wouldn’t even consider it. “He saved my life,” she said. “Now it was my turn to save his life.”<\/p>\n