{"id":214418,"date":"2019-11-30T14:25:33","date_gmt":"2019-11-30T20:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=214418"},"modified":"2019-11-30T00:19:05","modified_gmt":"2019-11-30T06:19:05","slug":"refused-abortion-cancer-healthy-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/refused-abortion-cancer-healthy-son\/","title":{"rendered":"She refused abortion after a cancer diagnosis and gave birth to a healthy son"},"content":{"rendered":"
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When Jade Devis of Rancho Cucamonga, California, found out she was pregnant in December 2018, the last thing on her mind was a cancer diagnosis. But that’s exactly what she got two months later when a biopsy revealed that a lump on her breast was stage 2 triple negative breast cancer, a rare form of the disease.<\/p>\n

In an interview with TODAY<\/a>, Devis revealed the fear she felt for her preborn child after receiving her diagnosis.\u00a0\u201cI felt trapped. The only way out was to do the one thing that I thought I wasn\u2019t supposed to do, which is put my baby in harm\u2019s way,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Devis’ doctors recommended abortion, telling her that her preborn baby was too small to withstand chemotherapy. Killing her preborn child was an option Devis refused to consider.\u00a0\u201cI wasn\u2019t going to let anybody tell me his fate. I was going to do everything I could to save the baby. I wasn\u2019t going to let a disease take the baby from me,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n