{"id":229516,"date":"2020-08-27T10:21:40","date_gmt":"2020-08-27T15:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=229516"},"modified":"2020-08-26T21:44:15","modified_gmt":"2020-08-27T02:44:15","slug":"parents-refuse-abortion-baby-tumor-outweighed-her","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/parents-refuse-abortion-baby-tumor-outweighed-her\/","title":{"rendered":"Parents refuse abortion for baby girl with tumor that outweighed her by a pound"},"content":{"rendered":"
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During the 20-week ultrasound for their preborn baby girl, Lenai and Matt Schier of Australia were told there was a massive tumor growing on her tailbone. According to the Mirror<\/a>, two days later, doctors diagnosed little Zalya with sacrococcygeal teratoma (SCT), a rare birth defect, and offered her parents an abortion. They refused.<\/p>\n

“The doctors told us not to Google anything when they found the lump,” Lenai explained. “However, my husband and I did. For those two days, all I could think was did this happen because I didn’t take my pregnancy vitamins every single day or not eat healthy enough? I was so scared our baby wouldn’t be able to walk or she would be in a lot of pain.”<\/p>\n

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I still can\u2019t believe our little lady is one! Where did that year go?! #zalyawarriorprincess #nicubaby #sctsurvivor #micropreemie #28weeker #sacrococcygealteratoma #sacrococcygealteratomasurvivor #oneyearold<\/a><\/p>\n

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