{"id":204430,"date":"2019-06-16T10:01:56","date_gmt":"2019-06-16T15:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=204430"},"modified":"2019-06-13T18:07:01","modified_gmt":"2019-06-13T23:07:01","slug":"doctors-pressured-abort-miracle-10-refused","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/doctors-pressured-abort-miracle-10-refused\/","title":{"rendered":"Doctors pressured her to abort her ‘miracle’ baby 10 times. She refused."},"content":{"rendered":"
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Recently, a UK couple who aborted their healthy baby<\/a> after a pregnancy screening test showed an increased risk of Trisomy 18. But another woman in the UK refused abortion for her daughter due to a diagnosis of spina bifida, despite being told at least 10 times<\/em> by doctors to abort her baby.<\/p>\n

According to The Sun<\/a>, Natalie Halson was 22 weeks pregnant when she underwent an ultrasound that showed her baby had spina bifida, a condition in which the spine and spinal cord have not properly developed. After that, Halson says she was repeatedly told to abort her daughter, saying the doctors “made out like an abortion was my only option and explained that if I went ahead with the pregnancy my baby would be wheelchair bound and have no quality of life.”<\/p>\n

To these doctors, life in a wheelchair is apparently a fate worse than death. Aborting a baby because of a prenatal diagnosis is discrimination.\u00a0“I found out as much as I could and realised that there were options, I refused to give up on my baby but the medics just wouldn’t take no for an answer,” she told Fabulous Digital<\/a>. “It was so insistent even after I’d repeatedly said no, but it was getting offered a termination just weeks before she was born that really upset me. She was a proper little person at that point, it was vile to think they just wanted me to get rid of her.”<\/p>\n

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