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A story on Yahoo! Parenting <\/a>tells of a woman who chose to have an abortion at 36 weeks, believing\u00a0it was the right choice for her situation. Writer Rachel Bertsche shares the story of\u00a0Kate, a 29-year-old mother outside\u00a0Boston, who had a late-term abortion after she learned her daughter had a brain abnormality. Kate chose abortion\u00a0even after\u00a0she was offered adoption as an option.<\/p>\n

The story\u00a0is\u00a0heartbreaking\u2014 almost like a woman who had a miscarriage and is grieving. But despite the circumstance of a baby who suffered from a brain malformation, the truth of the matter is that Kate and her husband opted to kill their daughter.<\/p>\n

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Baby Rose was, indeed, sick. She had a “severe presentation” of Dandy-Walker syndrome<\/a>, which is “a congenital brain malformation involving the cerebellum (an area at the back of the brain that controls movement) and the fluid filled spaces around it.”<\/p>\n

The Dandy-Walker Alliance website has many stories of families who chose to keep their child, despite recommendations to abort late into pregnancy; however,\u00a0Kate says her decision was the best option for her. Kate\u00a0<\/a>says\u00a0her husband first suggested abortion:<\/a><\/p>\n

“On the way home, even though I knew what I wanted to do, I couldn\u2019t say the word. What kind of mother is eight months pregnant and wants an abortion? I turned to my husband and said, ‘Tell me what you think we should do.’ He said, ‘Kate, you do not have to do this, but I think we should ask about the abortion.’<\/p>\n

“It was a gift. It felt like light and fresh air. I had been feeling so dark and so trapped, and when I realized we were together on this, I felt free. I knew what to do. It didn\u2019t matter anymore that people were going to call me a murderer, or that I\u2019d never heard of anyone doing this. It didn\u2019t matter that we didn\u2019t even know if it was legal. If I had my husband, I could do this.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Kate admits something else, too, as she describes her resolve\u00a0to get an abortion. Because Kate\u00a0believed\u00a0it was\u00a0perhaps too late to get a legal abortion<\/a>, she decided if she could not get an abortion, she would leave baby Rose alone to die after birth:<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we can\u2019t get the abortion, I\u2019m going to run away somewhere rural and I\u2019m going to have this baby by myself and let her die without intervention.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But for $25,000, the Boulder Abortion Clinic in Colorado was willing to do an abortion for Kate, who was on a plane with her husband a few days later. Her parents took the $25,000 from their retirement fund to pay to abort their grandchild. The procedure took four days:<\/a><\/p>\n

“The second and third days were short appointments, so we took a nice drive through the Rockies to pass the time. Then on the fourth day, they induced my labor. I got Pitocin, and it was actually a very natural birth. It was quite healing for me.<\/p>\n

“I couldn\u2019t do anything for this baby \u2014 I couldn\u2019t fix her brain or make her well, but I could deliver her from my body. I chose to view her, so they cleaned her up and brought her in and she looked a lot like my older daughter. She was beautiful and she was whole. I got her footprints and had her cremated and they sent us her ashes in the mail a few days later. We wanted to name her after a flower, so we called her Rose.<\/p>\n

“Ten days after we had that 35-week ultrasound, she was gone.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Soon after, Kate says:<\/a><\/p>\n

“My 30th birthday party was scheduled for the Sunday after we got home \u2014 two days after I gave birth to Rose. It was only for close family and friends, so I decided not to cancel. I told people that the baby died and that we induced a stillbirth. I didn\u2019t tell them I went to Colorado. I didn\u2019t tell them the baby died because we gave her an injection.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The mother’s narrative almost sounds like a tragic miscarriage, rather than a miscarriage of justice for an innocent child.<\/p>\n

While it’s clearly understandable that Kate and her husband felt intense grief, confusion and devastation, her open attitude that her baby would die one way or another\u2014 even if it meant leaving the child\u00a0alone to die \u2014 is devastating.<\/p>\n

In this case, medical personnel even offered to\u00a0arrange an adoption, but that was not an\u00a0option for\u00a0Kate. Without question, this was a tragic pregnancy; however, the tragedy lies in the parents’ decision that baby Rose should not have a chance to live.<\/p>\n

As Kate\u00a0told her eldest\u00a0daughter who asked about the baby in her belly on a regular basis: “No, honey. Baby died. Baby\u2019s all gone.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u00a0is heartbreaking\u00a0that late-term abortions are\u00a0a legal procedure in our nation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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