{"id":193813,"date":"2019-01-10T10:59:26","date_gmt":"2019-01-10T16:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=193813"},"modified":"2019-01-08T14:29:22","modified_gmt":"2019-01-08T20:29:22","slug":"mom-triplets-refused-to-abort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/mom-triplets-refused-to-abort\/","title":{"rendered":"Brave mom of triplets refused to abort any of her ‘Christmas miracles’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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British parents Patrick and Katie Johnson were thrilled to be welcoming triplets. But the excited mom, who works in commercial real estate, got bad news at her 12-week ultrasound: the babies were not equally sharing the placenta, leading to potentially life-threatening growth issues. Doctors recommended that Johnson undergo an abortion<\/a>, killing one or two of her preborn children to give the remaining ones a better chance at surviving. But Johnson bravely refused<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“There was a risk to all of them,” she recalled to the UK Daily Mail. “Oliver was 25 percent smaller than his brother and the blood flow wasn\u2019t getting to him properly. If Oliver died, Oscar could have died too. But there was no way that we could terminate one or two babies. We had to give them all a chance of survival.” After her steadfast refusal to have an abortion, she was instead monitored carefully to make sure their growth was not too restricted. The Johnsons, meanwhile, had named their children: identical twin boys Oscar and Oliver, and baby girl Aurelia. By 28 weeks, they found that the problems were not getting any better.<\/p>\n