{"id":177278,"date":"2018-01-07T10:22:56","date_gmt":"2018-01-07T15:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=177278"},"modified":"2018-01-05T17:10:53","modified_gmt":"2018-01-05T22:10:53","slug":"mother-refused-late-term-abortion-rare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/mother-refused-late-term-abortion-rare\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother refused late-term abortion for son diagnosed with rare condition"},"content":{"rendered":"
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What happens when a baby is diagnosed prenatally with a birth defect? Too often, the parents are pressured to have an abortion<\/a>. But for one mother in the United Kingdom, that was not an option<\/a>. At 20 weeks pregnant, Yvonne Exell was told that her son, Ruben, had congenital cystic adenomatoid malformation (CCAM), and doctors offered her a late-term abortion. While the condition is rare, affecting just one in 10,000 pregnancies, it is the most common kind of fetal lung lesion. CCAM is a benign lung lesion that can vary in size.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was when I went to my 20-week scan that the doctors realised something was wrong,” Exell said. “I had to go to a consultant who examined me and explained to me what CCAM was. It\u2019s abnormal tissue in the lungs which squashed his lung and heart right to the side near enough to his back. I was given the option to terminate the pregnancy as it was unlikely the baby would survive, but there was no doubt in my mind that I would carry on.\u201d<\/p>\n

The type of abortion typically committed at this late stage of pregnancy (up to 24 weeks) is typically a D&E, or dilation and evacuation, in which the child is dismembered while still alive, and is then removed from his mother’s womb piece by piece:<\/p>\n