{"id":187226,"date":"2018-08-20T11:40:02","date_gmt":"2018-08-20T16:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=187226"},"modified":"2018-08-20T22:08:42","modified_gmt":"2018-08-21T03:08:42","slug":"majority-babies-heart-defects-aborted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/majority-babies-heart-defects-aborted\/","title":{"rendered":"Tragic: Majority of babies in womb with treatable heart defects are aborted"},"content":{"rendered":"
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For most expectant parents, their one hope is that their preborn babies will be healthy. But what if that’s not the case? Countless parents will receive difficult news during their pregnancy, receiving a prenatal diagnosis of a birth defect or disability. What happens afterward is often tragic: according to a new study focusing on congenital heart disease (CHD), parents are likely to choose abortion<\/a> for their preborn child, even when the condition is treatable<\/em>. These babies are aborted a majority of the time<\/a>.<\/p>\n

READ: Caught on tape: Late-term abortions done on healthy moms and babies<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

The study, published in the medical journal JAMA Cardiology, found that fewer children are being born with CHD than before. In 2004, the abortion rate for babies with CHD was 0.6%. In 2013, it had skyrocketed to 39.1% after more prenatal screenings were offered, an increase of 65%. For babies receiving such a prenatal diagnosis, the majority were aborted:<\/p>\n

Among those cases diagnosed before birth, fully 57.8% of the pregnancies were terminated, reported Rebekka Lytzen, PhD, of Copenhagen University, and colleagues in JAMA Cardiology<\/em><\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Alexander Kon, of the University of California San Diego, defended diagnosing these children prenatally, as it can give parents more time to prepare, both medically and emotionally, and can improve surgical outcomes and better neonatal palliative care. Unfortunately, it seems that “preparing” is not what most parents are doing with the information. They’re choosing to abort instead.<\/p>\n