{"id":315584,"date":"2024-07-16T08:48:59","date_gmt":"2024-07-16T13:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=315584"},"modified":"2024-07-15T21:49:49","modified_gmt":"2024-07-16T02:49:49","slug":"mother-angry-daughter-died-naturally-aborted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/mother-angry-daughter-died-naturally-aborted\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother angry that daughter died naturally instead of being aborted: ‘She shouldn’t have had to wait’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Another mother is arguing<\/a> that she should have been able to kill her baby prematurely through abortion rather than allow her daughter to die a natural death. The media is predictably exploiting the family’s tragedy to promote unrestricted legalized abortion.<\/p>\n

Samantha Casiano of East Texas has joined a growing list of women who believe it would have been better to abort than to carry to term. In December of 2022, Roe v. Wade<\/em> was no longer in place and the Texas Heartbeat Act was in full effect, protecting preborn babies from abortion once their heartbeats were detectable \u2014 at about six weeks gestation. According to MSNBC, that’s when Casiano, pregnant with her fifth child, learned that her baby had anencephaly<\/a>, a condition in which the brain, skull, and scalp are missing, exposing the brain to amniotic fluid. Most children born with the condition do not live long outside of the womb, though at least one, Angela<\/a>, lived for nearly four years.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was told that it meant that my daughter was incompatible with life. And I wouldn\u2019t be adding another little human to our family. It was really hard to hear that. It felt like it was a dream \u2014 a really, really bad dream,” she said.<\/p>\n

Casiano’s daughter, Halo Hope, was a human being from the moment of fertilization and was always a member of the Casiano family. Receiving a diagnosis doesn’t negate a baby’s humanity.<\/p>\n

At the time of her prenatal diagnosis \u2014 a tool that can be beneficial<\/a> but which is sadly also used to exterminate children with disabilities \u2014 Casiano was told by her doctor that Halo \u201cwould die, either before I give birth, or as soon as I do give birth.\u201d Texas protects preborn children in all circumstances except when the mother’s life is said to be at risk (though induced abortion \u2014 the direct and intentional killing of the preborn child \u2014 is not medically necessary). Because of this, Casiano could not have an abortion in Texas, and she said she couldn’t financially or logistically travel for one, either. Texas’ pro-life law protected Halo from the horror of death by abortion, and protected Casiano too, though she may not feel that it did. Casiano remains angry that she could not abort Halo.<\/p>\n

“I should have been able to release my daughter that day [she was diagnosed]. I just wasn’t able to. I was restricted from doing that,” she said.<\/p>\n

“Incompatible with life”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Though Boston Children’s Hospital states<\/a> that 75% of children with anencephaly will be stillborn, a report<\/a> of families who chose to carry to term shows that about seven percent (7%) of babies with anencephaly died in the womb naturally and 18% died at birth. That means 75% survived outside the womb for some amount of time.<\/p>\n

About a quarter (26%) lived up to an hour, 27% lived between one and 24 hours, 17% lived between one and five days, and five percent (5%) lived six or more days. The report also found that “[o]ther pregnancy complications were rarely recorded” in pregnancies with babies with anencephaly. Of these families, not one reported regret about carrying their baby to term. Rather, they remarked at the importance of being able to hold their babies and give them funerals.<\/p>\n

Casiano didn’t see it that way. \u201cJust imagine yourself waking up every morning, knowing that your daughter was going to die. You can feel her kick and move, but she\u2019s going to die. So you have to plan her funeral while she\u2019s inside of you,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd that\u2019s probably the hardest thing any mother has to go through\u2026 It was traumatizing and hard. Just thinking about it now is just me makes my stomach hurt. And I was forced to go through it. It was torture.\u201d<\/p>\n

The pain of losing a child is unimaginable, and terrifying for parents to experience. But subjecting a child to abortion is also torture \u2014 and not just of an emotional kind. A D&E is the most common abortion procedure carried out in the second trimester and involves the dismemberment of the baby. The abortionist uses a Sopher clamp to tear the baby’s legs and arms off of her body before crushing the baby’s skull.<\/p>\n