{"id":253092,"date":"2021-09-19T13:37:32","date_gmt":"2021-09-19T18:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=253092"},"modified":"2021-09-17T20:31:45","modified_gmt":"2021-09-18T01:31:45","slug":"chose-life-fatal-fetal-diagnosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/chose-life-fatal-fetal-diagnosis\/","title":{"rendered":"Laura chose life after fatal fetal diagnosis: ‘She knew nothing but love’"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/div>

In Focus on the Family\u2019s See Life series<\/a>, a woman named Laura told her story of choosing life after her daughter was diagnosed in the womb with a fatal brain disorder.\u00a0A labor and delivery nurse, Laura and her husband were pregnant with their fourth child. She was excited to go in for her 20-week ultrasound but knew it was the one where potential problems with the baby could be discovered.<\/p>\n

\u201cI knew, because it’s my fourth time, that this sonographer was going slow and quiet,” she said. “And I remember thinking, ‘Oh, no, no. No. This is not going to be us.'”<\/p>\n

\"\"

Laura<\/p><\/div>\n

The doctor came in and told her that her daughter wasn\u2019t going to survive. He immediately asked her and her husband, \u201cWhat do you want to do?\u201d\u00a0Laura explained:<\/p>\n

And I was like, what do you mean what do I want to do? I’m going to have a baby in four more months. That’s what I’m going to do.<\/em><\/p>\n

[The doctor] said, “We could go take care of this.\u201d Meaning, let’s go upstairs and start an induction [for an abortion]. But I knew there was a story here. And I need to embrace what that story was with our baby.<\/em><\/p>\n