{"id":233036,"date":"2020-10-25T09:03:51","date_gmt":"2020-10-25T14:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=233036"},"modified":"2020-10-22T21:41:59","modified_gmt":"2020-10-23T02:41:59","slug":"dominic-alive-doctors-told-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/dominic-alive-doctors-told-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"Dominic is alive and well today after doctors told his mom she needed an abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In 2016, Tara Vigarino’s water broke at just 17 weeks. Terrified, Vigarino was told that her baby had no chance of survival due to such an early gestational age.\u00a0“I was a basket of emotions,” Vigarino told SELF<\/a> magazine. “It was not at all what I was expecting to hear.”<\/p>\n

Doctors at Vigarino’s hospital encouraged her to either have an abortion or to go home and wait for a miscarriage to happen. However, her OB\/GYN offered her help and hope and told her to stay in bed and drink fluids to try to increase what amniotic fluid she did have.<\/p>\n

Once a week she would visit her OB\/GYN to check on the baby. She also began to see a doctor at the Cleveland Clinic who specialized in high-risk pregnancies. That doctor told her that if she could make it to 23 weeks, then they could do more to help the baby should labor begin. By following her doctor’s advice, Vigarino made it to 31 weeks. Doctors then determined it was safer to deliver her baby than continue the pregnancy.<\/p>\n

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Baby Dominic was born two months prematurely and did “amazingly well,” Vigarino said. Women’s health expert Jennifer Wider, M.D., told SELF that PPROM (preterm premature rupture of the membranes) occurs in less than three percent of all pregnancies. It is rare, but serious. The baby is at risk of being born too soon and his or her mother is at risk of infection. In the case of infection, antibiotics can be administered. If they fail to resolve the infection, then early delivery may be necessary.<\/p>\n

It is important to note that early delivery while attempting to protect both mother and infant lives is not abortion<\/a>. While the abortion industry uses frightening stories like this to advocate for late-term abortion, the truth is abortion is never necessary to save a woman’s life.<\/p>\n