{"id":253103,"date":"2021-09-22T08:43:56","date_gmt":"2021-09-22T13:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=253103"},"modified":"2021-09-22T13:55:02","modified_gmt":"2021-09-22T18:55:02","slug":"prenatal-diagnosis-pressure-abort-born-healthy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/prenatal-diagnosis-pressure-abort-born-healthy\/","title":{"rendered":"Pressured to abort due to a prenatal diagnosis, they refused and their daughter was born healthy"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Focus on the Family has produced\u00a0a pro-life program<\/a>\u00a0featuring interviews with individuals who have lived through the \u201chard cases\u201d of abortion. These are the so-called “exceptions” to pro-life laws, such as babies with a poor prenatal diagnosis \u2014 cases in which even many people who consider themselves to be pro-life erroneously support abortion.<\/p>\n

In August, a woman named Rachel Guy (whose story<\/a> has been shared by Live Action News before) shared her story with Focus on the Family. Rachel\u2019s parents were devout Christians, and they wanted a child very much but struggled for six years to conceive. When Rachel\u2019s mother finally became pregnant, they were overjoyed.<\/p>\n

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Rachel<\/p><\/div>\n

Rachel\u2019s mother had an alpha-fetal protein test, and the doctor told the couple that Rachel might have Down syndrome. He recommended an amniocentesis to find out, a test that carries with it a chance of miscarriage. According to some estimates, the test causes a miscarriage one to two percent of the time<\/a>.\u00a0Rachel\u2019s parents refused the test, saying that they wouldn\u2019t abort even if the baby did have Down syndrome. According to Rachel, the doctor was \u201cfrustrated\u201d at their refusal.<\/p>\n