{"id":288836,"date":"2023-04-13T18:38:07","date_gmt":"2023-04-13T23:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=288836"},"modified":"2023-11-06T15:44:24","modified_gmt":"2023-11-06T21:44:24","slug":"doctors-abortion-22-weeks-survive-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/doctors-abortion-22-weeks-survive-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"Doctors offered abortion at 22 weeks for baby they said wouldn’t survive. They were wrong."},"content":{"rendered":"
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(Right to Life UK<\/a>) A Welsh mum was told her daughter would not survive birth and was offered an abortion at 22 weeks, but she refused and her daughter is now 18 months old.<\/p>\n

Kim and her husband, Richard, were expecting their fourth child when, at the 12-week scan, they found that their baby had a problem with her heart. They were referred to Liverpool Women\u2019s Hospital for further tests and found their daughter, Esmay, has an irregular heartbeat.<\/p>\n

By 20 weeks, her heart had stopped growing and Kim was offered an abortion at 22 weeks.<\/p>\n

Kim, 38, said<\/a> \u201cAt 22 weeks I was offered an abortion because one side of her heart had stopped growing but I refused as I believe every child deserves a chance\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen Esmay was born she had a blood test which discovered that she had a rare chromosome disorder in which the top end of chromosome six had been deleted. As a result of the chromosome deletion comes another condition called Axenfeld-Rieger syndrome which causes the back of her eyes to stop forming and will eventually make her blind\u201d.<\/p>\n