{"id":195389,"date":"2019-02-06T09:45:41","date_gmt":"2019-02-06T15:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=195389"},"modified":"2019-02-04T00:32:57","modified_gmt":"2019-02-04T06:32:57","slug":"mom-birth-dying-daughter-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/mom-birth-dying-daughter-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Mom gave birth to dying daughter: ‘Choose love, even when it\u2019s hard’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In 2002, Sarah C. Williams discovered that her preborn daughter had a life-limiting disorder. She shared her story in an opinion piece in USA Today<\/a> about why she attended the March for Life this year: because she chose life for her dying daughter. Williams describes how her doctor informed her that her baby suffered from lethal skeletal dysplasia, which meant that when she was born she would not be able to breathe. However, the doctor did not say \u201cshe\u201d; he called the baby \u201cit.\u201d He instructed Williams and her husband on how to schedule an abortion<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Williams writes that she was in shock after the news, but \u201cwhen the shock lifted, I knew she wasn\u2019t an \u2018it.\u2019 She was my daughter, a sick and dying child who needed me.\u201d Williams and her husband named their daughter Cerian, and Williams carried her daughter for 16 weeks following the diagnosis. Cerian passed away during labor.<\/p>\n

READ: Mom chose life for daughter with half a heart: \u2018I\u2019m glad I listened to my instincts\u2019<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Williams, who has shared her experiences in the spiritual autobiography \u201cPerfectly Human<\/a>,\u201d writes candidly about how challenging her decision was for other people. She wrote, \u201cWhat I did not anticipate in making the decision to carry a sick baby to term was the anger that it would provoke in others. I discovered that we live in a society in which the decision not to abort an abnormal fetus requires a defense.\u201d<\/p>\n