{"id":206033,"date":"2019-07-11T08:41:59","date_gmt":"2019-07-11T13:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=206033"},"modified":"2019-07-10T17:51:56","modified_gmt":"2019-07-10T22:51:56","slug":"doctors-birth-defect-pressured-abort-born-healthy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/doctors-birth-defect-pressured-abort-born-healthy\/","title":{"rendered":"Doctors said her son had a birth defect and pressured her to abort. He was born healthy."},"content":{"rendered":"
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Lauren Webster, a Scottish woman, has gone public about being repeatedly pressured to undergo an abortion<\/a> after being told her preborn baby had a fatal birth defect. In an interview with the Scotsman<\/a>, Webster said that after refusing an abortion, her son was born healthy.<\/p>\n

Webster, 21, had previously suffered two miscarriages, but was hopeful about her latest pregnancy. “When I found out I was pregnant, I was very scared because of what had happened before,” she told the Scotsman. “But I just had a gut feeling that this was my time.” But then, at 13 weeks, she had an ultrasound at the Princess Royal Maternity Hospital in Glasgow and was told there was a problem with her baby.<\/p>\n

“I was scared when I found out I was pregnant with Ollie,” she said. “I just thought, this is going to happen again. Because I had had two miscarriages previously, I got two early scans but there was a heartbeat so they weren’t concerned. But when I went for my 13-week scan, the doctor told me he had a bladder obstruction. She asked me if I wanted to terminate, saying there was a low chance he would survive.”<\/p>\n