{"id":336447,"date":"2025-08-19T14:53:39","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T19:53:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=336447"},"modified":"2025-08-19T17:43:52","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T22:43:52","slug":"state-doesnt-love-angry-preborn-sons-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/state-doesnt-love-angry-preborn-sons-texas\/","title":{"rendered":"‘My state doesn’t love me’: Mom angry she couldn’t kill her two preborn sons in Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A woman is blaming Texas law for her decision to twice travel to Colorado to abort baby boys she and her husband conceived by IVF, after receiving diagnoses of bilateral renal genesis for each of their preborn sons. <\/span><\/p>\n

In her article, “Texas law forced me to choose: Watch my baby die or flee my home for medical help,” published by <\/span>Courier Texas<\/span><\/a> and reprinted by <\/span>Ms. Magazine<\/span><\/a>, Megan\u00a0<\/span>Bond described the abortions as \u201cmedical care,\u201d and presented abortion as the couple\u2019s only option and as her own self-sacrificial choice. Bond also blamed Texas’ pro-life laws for the couple\u2019s suffering.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Backstory:<\/h2>\n

Bond explained that she met and married her husband, Kevin, in her early thirties. After trying to conceive naturally for a year, the Bonds met with medical professionals in the fall of 2023, who told them the only way they would conceive children was through IVF. <\/span><\/p>\n

Bond doesn\u2019t mention whether any of the medical professionals offered<\/span> Restorative Reproductive Medicine<\/span><\/a> to heal Bond so she could conceive naturally. Instead, like so many American couples hoping for children, it appears the Bonds were directed straight to the IVF industry, which<\/span> commodifies<\/span><\/a> children from the moment of fertilization and is fraught with health risks for mothers \u2014 and the babies who manage to survive the process.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Details:<\/h2>\n

The Bonds\u2019 first son, Kevin, conceived via IVF, was diagnosed with <\/span>bilateral renal agenesis<\/span><\/a> at 17 weeks gestation. <\/span>This is a <\/span>condition<\/span><\/a> in which the kidneys do not form, preventing the preborn child from urinating. This causes a low amount of amniotic fluid, which leads to underdeveloped lungs and other concerns (Potter syndrome). Without kidneys or fully functioning lungs, most children with these complications die at birth or very soon after.<\/span><\/p>\n

Learning the diagnosis was devastating for the couple.\u00a0<\/span>Bond described that moment:<\/span><\/p>\n

Not surprisingly, when we were at our first anatomy scan at 17 weeks, Kevin and I were very excited. We were watching our baby move around and we were looking at his heartbeat. We didn\u2019t know that anything was wrong until our maternal fetal medicine specialist came in and told us.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

She explained that our son had no kidneys, which meant that there was no amniotic fluid around him, and with no amniotic fluid his lungs couldn\u2019t develop.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

This meant that he would be crushed in utero without the amniotic fluid, and then if he did survive until birth he would suffocate because his lungs wouldn\u2019t work, and it would be incredibly painful for him.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

A Fatal Decision Based on Incorrect Information<\/b><\/h3>\n

Bond related that she immediately made up her mind to end her son\u2019s life after receiving his diagnosis. <\/span><\/p>\n

Abortion was not offered by the Texas medical staff, and the medical professionals also didn\u2019t advise the Bonds on how to obtain an abortion out of state. <\/span>Bond recounted that all the doctors who consulted the couple said, “No baby with this diagnosis ha[s] ever survived.\u2019” But this claim is false. Cleveland Clinic notes<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

Until recently, a newborn with no kidneys and underdeveloped lungs had little hope of surviving outside of the uterus for more than a few hours. But new experimental treatments offer a reason to have hope. <\/em><\/p>\n

The treatment involves injecting saline (saltwater) solution into the uterus during pregnancy to restore amniotic fluid levels. The fluid allows the fetus\u2019s lungs to develop. After birth, the baby receives dialysis<\/a> until a kidney transplant procedure<\/a> can take place. <\/em><\/p>\n

This treatment is still experimental and not widely available.<\/em><\/p>\n

Live Action News has reported the stories of multiple children who were able to survive birth without kidneys and went on to survive with kidney donations, thanks to dedicated medical professionals and the generosity of their parents and organ donors.<\/span><\/p>\n

In 2020<\/span><\/a>, Andi Mahoney of Florida faced a diagnosis<\/a> of bilateral renal agenesis for her baby girl, Emmie Hope, <\/span>at 20 weeks<\/a>; doctors told her family there was no chance of Emmie’s survival. Mahoney tracked down a medical team that would help her, underwent amnioinfusions during pregnancy, and after Emmie was born, cared for her on dialysis for two years before she was able to donate her own kidney to her.<\/p>\n

Former U.S. Representative Jaime Herrera Beutler\u2019s daughter was also diagnosed<\/a> with bilateral renal agenesis and survived thanks to a kidney transplant from her father.<\/span><\/p>\n

Killing to ‘prevent suffering’<\/h3>\n

Bond framed her decision to have an abortion as a way to suffer so her son wouldn\u2019t have to.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI knew immediately that the decision I would make was to terminate the pregnancy with an abortion. I could take on my baby\u2019s pain so he wouldn\u2019t have to do it,\u201d Bond wrote.<\/span><\/p>\n

Bond seems to believe that the abortion spared her son from pain because he did not have to experience suffocation shortly after birth. <\/span>However, the two-day, second trimester abortion that Bond described is most likely the <\/span>dilation and evacuation (D&E) abortion<\/span><\/a>, a horrific procedure in which the unborn baby is dismembered, torn limb from limb, and taken from the uterus in mangled pieces. The abortion procedure is also difficult on the mother and father. <\/span><\/p>\n

Bond related that her husband witnessed the abortion.<\/span><\/p>\n