{"id":320849,"date":"2024-10-28T08:48:39","date_gmt":"2024-10-28T13:48:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=320849"},"modified":"2024-10-28T00:22:11","modified_gmt":"2024-10-28T05:22:11","slug":"choosing-life-rory-trisomy-18-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/choosing-life-rory-trisomy-18-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"Mom shares story of choosing life for son with Trisomy 18 – and the mission it inspired"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A recent episode from the Shout My Story<\/a> podcast tells the beautiful story of a family who chose life for their son diagnosed with Trisomy 18 \u2014 and the ministry born from their experience.<\/p>\n

Keira Burke told host Cindy Morales that when she was 20 weeks pregnant with her fifth child, Rory, she and her husband learned that Rory likely had Trisomy 18, a life-limiting condition that often means a child may not live long after birth. Burke said her doctor offered them an abortion as a routine course of action, but they refused.<\/p>\n

It was only after confirming a second<\/em> time that they were not going to abort their child that they were offered the option of perinatal hospice \u2014 a fact Burke described as “unfortunate.” She said if more families were offered perinatal hospice as an equal alternative to abortion at the outset rather than an afterthought, she believes many of those families would choose life.<\/p>\n

Instead, many parents are led to believe that abortion is the norm.<\/p>\n