{"id":281016,"date":"2022-12-07T10:46:29","date_gmt":"2022-12-07T16:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=281016"},"modified":"2022-12-06T19:02:54","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T01:02:54","slug":"abortion-legacy-conversations-health-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/abortion-legacy-conversations-health-care\/","title":{"rendered":"How abortion’s ugly decades-long legacy changes conversations in health care"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Vice News recently published the story of a Texas woman pressured into an abortion. Referred to only as \u201cA,” she is the mother of a toddler who learned she was pregnant with twins. After receiving treatment for several severe bouts of nausea and vomiting, the hospital discovered that one twin was less developed than the other. Then, at 12 weeks into her pregnancy, that particular twin was found to be in more trouble than originally thought. The baby had an issue with his brain, some organs developing outside his body, and showed symptoms of Trisomy 18.<\/p>\n

Doctors told A that her baby would not live past birth, and they pressured her to abort, telling A that the sick twin could harm her other baby. \u201cEvery other doctor, every genetic counselor, they were all unanimous that every day that Baby B continued to grow, that he was putting his twin and myself at further risk,\u201d A told\u00a0Vice<\/a>. In the end, A flew to Colorado and aborted her preborn baby through a \u201csingle twin reduction.\u201d<\/p>\n

A\u2019s case shines a spotlight on problems endemic to much of the medical community\u2019s approach toward women and their preborn babies \u2013 the ugly legacy of decades of legalized abortion.<\/p>\n