Forced to decide between a severely disabled baby unlikely to live long, or a late abortion, Joy Freeman chose the latter. She talks to people who faced a similar choice and finds that men and women deal with it very differently
Diagnosis of an abnormality in your unborn baby propels you into a strange alternate universe where everyone around you seems callously happy. You are still outwardly pregnant, and people congratulate you, but you are living with the poisoned chalice of knowledge and choice.
Our baby was diagnosed with spina bifida at a routine scan about halfway through the pregnancy. The prognosis was not good: major, life-saving surgery at birth, no walking, probably no talking. The likelihood that he would survive childhood was murky. My partner and I had to decide whether to raise a severely disabled child or have an abortion.
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