"...they said he had several markers for Down Syndrome and that I should abort."
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Choose Life
"We decided from the beginning, even if he had died his first day, that we would fight for him. That is what a parent does."
"You will never regret giving them a chance at life."
"Never in a million years would I regret the decision I made... I changed his life to make sure he got the things I would never have been able to provide. And I gave an incredible couple the chance to be a real family and have the love and happiness that they deserved."
"I don't want to get into much detail because it's still a touchy subject, but I was raped and I knew the person ... I ended up pregnant at the age of 16."
"I was 16 years old. I was given a new name and then I was drugged."
"I was the foetus that was to be aborted 50 years ago; 3 times aborted but somehow they were not successful."
"During this pregnancy we got news that our baby might have Spina Bifida. My heart felt like it shattered..."
"While all around me my pregnant friends were preparing their nurseries, I was preparing her funeral."
"I am a child of rape. My mother was 19 and at a party. She was raped by three different people from her high school..."
"At 15 I was raped. I found out I was pregnant 6 weeks later."
"We have triplet girls who are almost 5 years old - two of whom are Mono-Mono Twins, a very rare type of identical twins. We were told repeatedly by one doctor to eliminate them to give the remaining triplet a better chance at life."
"One of the options we were given was to end our small daughter's life to give our bigger daughter a better chance at life. This was not an option for us, nor had it ever crossed our minds."