{"id":315646,"date":"2024-07-17T08:43:55","date_gmt":"2024-07-17T13:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=315646"},"modified":"2024-07-16T17:27:17","modified_gmt":"2024-07-16T22:27:17","slug":"father-letter-son-grateful-abort-him-sibling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/father-letter-son-grateful-abort-him-sibling\/","title":{"rendered":"Father writes letter to infant son, expressing gratefulness for option to abort him and his sibling"},"content":{"rendered":"
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HuffPost recently published<\/a> “A Letter To My 1-Year-Old Son About His Abortion,” by Matt Tente. In the article, Tente speaks of the gratitude he has for the pro-abortion law that allowed his first child to be killed in the womb, and that allowed him to consider aborting his second child (now one-year-old) as well.<\/p>\n

The first abortion<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Son, one day you\u2019ll ask us what it was like when you came into this world and for years, we will lie. We will say it was joyful and wonderful and beautiful and all the other –fuls<\/em> we can think of, because the truth won\u2019t be easy to tell,” wrote Tente. “That the story began nearly two years before you were born, when your mom\u2019s obstetrician confirmed she was pregnant.”<\/p>\n

But, explained Tente, that baby was diagnosed with Trisomy 18, also known as Edward’s syndrome; as a result, that child was killed by abortion at 15 weeks and three days old.<\/p>\n

“I won\u2019t tell you how your mom woke up every morning knowing that if she continued that pregnancy, it was almost certain to end in a miscarriage, stillbirth or neonatal death. That if it had been taken to term, the resulting complications might have made your conception impossible,” he wrote.<\/p>\n

This isn’t accurate<\/a>. While there are some increased risks for the mother, such as increased blood pressure and gestational diabetes, there is no known risk<\/a> of future infertility specifically after carrying a child with Trisomy 18 to term. In addition, Trisomy 18 is no longer considered<\/a> “incompatible with life,” but rather is a \u201clife-limiting\u201d condition because children with T-18 are now able to live longer lives, thanks to the dedication of parents and medical teams.<\/p>\n

While children with the condition face a higher risk of miscarriage and stillbirth, those who do survive are seeing improved outcomes.<\/p>\n

Research<\/a> from the University of Michigan\u2019s Mott Children\u2019s Hospital revealed that by \u201ctaking an aggressive approach to treatment, 90% of babies born with Edwards syndrome can go home from the hospital, and their five-year survival rate can reach close to 77%.\u201d<\/p>\n

The second abortion<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tente and his wife were happy to find out they were pregnant a second time, but at 10 weeks, a doctor told them with “75% certainty” that this second baby did not have a skull. It’s a condition known as anencephaly, and based on this information, the couple\u00a0scheduled an abortion for the day after their next planned appointment.<\/p>\n

Tente wrote to his son, “We won\u2019t tell you the obvious \u2014 that that condition is fatal \u2014 or how we scheduled another abortion for the day after the 12-week follow-up to confirm the diagnosis, because it would be barbaric to make your mom live one more day waiting to lose a pregnancy that was already lost.”<\/p>\n

Is it “barbaric” to carry a child who is still living, or is it “barbaric” to intentionally kill a human being by suction, dismemberment, or poison? Those who choose abortion frequently either think only of how they may feel or deal with grief, or comfort themselves with the idea that abortion (often, dismemberment while the baby still lives) is the more “merciful” thing to do, to spare their child suffering.<\/p>\n