This Naval Officer Says Abortion Was the Compassionate Choice: 'It Meant Our Child Didn't Have to Suffer'
My husband and I met later in life; we were almost 40 when we got married and decided to start a family. Age was a factor [in childbearing] for us; we ended up experiencing two miscarriages when we first tried. We lost a baby at 10 weeks and lost a baby at 6 weeks, so when we found out that we were pregnant a third time, it was very, very exciting for us.
We are stationed in Japan, and it took a long time for us to get the results back. When I called to get the results, the doctor asked us to come into the office — and my heart dropped. When we got to the office, the physician said that the test came back positive for Patau syndrome and he discussed what that might mean for our child.
After she completed the ultrasound, she showed us the results — the things my son had wrong with him. He had malformation of the brain, where the majority of his brain was actually liquid, and not fully formed; a severe cleft palate and malformation of his nasal area, which meant that he would be unlikely able to breathe or eat if he was carried to term. It was hard to tell if his heart was fully formed.
A very good friend of our family is a pediatric intensive care specialist, and he spent about an hour of his time on the phone talking to us about what Patau syndrome looks like – the possible interventions, the palliative care. Eventually after a lot of discussion and thought and research into it, my husband and I realized that that was not a life we wanted to have for our son.
We found out that we were eligible to have an abortion here in Japan, and that the typical type of abortion they do is a labor and delivery induction and that seemed so much better to us than having a dilation and evacuation procedure, or D & E. Abortion is not just about getting rid of a baby. Being able to have an abortion for us meant our child, our son, didn’t have to suffer. And that my husband and I got to provide to him only safety and security. When he was born, I was able to hold him, my husband was able to hold him.
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