by APFLI | Jul 19, 2007 | Hard Cases - Incest / Rape / Congenital Anomalies / Life of Mother
British Mother Gives Birth to a Healthy Baby Doctors had told her to abort. A British mother has given birth to a baby who doctors said would die in the womb or be severely disabled after birth. Physicians told Deborah G., a 36 year-old woman, that she should...
by APFLI | Jul 12, 2007 | Hard Cases - Incest / Rape / Congenital Anomalies / Life of Mother
Mom's pride: 25 years after his bleak beginning, adopted crack baby earns law degree Parents' love proves ultimate cure The kid came into this world with two strikes against him. Then he hit a home run. Ila Pawley became his mom. "I got...
by APFLI | May 28, 2007 | Hard Cases - Incest / Rape / Congenital Anomalies / Life of Mother
"Every child . . . no matter how fragile their life or brief their days, forever changes our world." ~Victoria Miller, Founder, Trisomy 18 Foundation 99 Balloons Touches Tens of Thousands Parents of Eliot, a Trisomy 18 child, celebrated...
by APFLI | Feb 10, 2007 | Hard Cases - Incest / Rape / Congenital Anomalies / Life of Mother
See also http://livingwithtrisomy13.org/MemoriesofJerimiah.htm Trisomy 13: WHEN WHAT SEEMS BROKEN IS PERFECT The graph is still taped to the inside of my kitchen cupboard, pencil on a string dangling down beside it. It depicts the progression of my newborn...
by APFLI | Feb 10, 2007 | Hard Cases - Incest / Rape / Congenital Anomalies / Life of Mother
International Down Syndrome Coalition for Life. http://idscforlife.wordpress.com/ Down Syndrome Described in 1866 by John Langdon Down, an English physician. Jerome Lejeune, the French "Father of Fetology", identified the actual...
by APFLI | Jan 22, 2007 | Hard Cases - Incest / Rape / Congenital Anomalies / Life of Mother
Hope Ann W. lost her battle against trisomy 18 [Edward’s syndrome] last week. But she lived seven years and brought joy to everyone around her. Doctors had urged Hope’s mother, Teri, to have an abortion after prenatal tests revealed her baby had a severely...
by APFLI | Jun 27, 2006 | Hard Cases - Incest / Rape / Congenital Anomalies / Life of Mother, Studies - Breast Cancer
Amy Langford was utterly surprised when, at 42, she found out she was pregnant. Her joy dissipated a few weeks later, when she and her husband were told that a suspicious lump in her right breast was cancerous. “The doctor came back and said he had ‘not...
by APFLI | Jun 25, 2006 | Hard Cases - Incest / Rape / Congenital Anomalies / Life of Mother
Question: My family and I have a claim against — regarding the birth of our child (severe hydrocephalus). Five sloppily performed ultrasounds missed the diagnosis (as late as 26 weeks). If we had known, we would have delivered...
by APFLI | Jun 14, 2006 | Hard Cases - Incest / Rape / Congenital Anomalies / Life of Mother
Elliot Institute director Dr. David Reardon says most women who become pregnant through rape or incest do not want abortions. Instead, most report feeling coerced into abortion and that abortion only increased their grief and trauma. Reardon, co-editor of the book...
by APFLI | Apr 22, 2006 | Hard Cases - Incest / Rape / Congenital Anomalies / Life of Mother
Jacob has survived despite receiving a rare metabolic disorder of the liver from his mother, Keeley. Although doctors warned her that getting pregnant would be risky, Keeley had no thoughts about abortion once she found out she was carrying Jacob and that he had...
by APFLI | Sep 22, 2005 | Hard Cases - Incest / Rape / Congenital Anomalies / Life of Mother
By Joel Brind, Ph.D. We all know that abortion was marketed to American society through appeals based on the hard cases. The hardest of these is when the life of the mother is at stake. Perhaps the most common indication for a “life of the mother” abortion...
by APFLI | Sep 2, 2005 | Hard Cases - Incest / Rape / Congenital Anomalies / Life of Mother
Brazilian Congresswoman Whose Mother was Raped, Voices Opposition to Abortion Brazilian Congresswoman Fatima Pelaes shared her personal testimony on the floor of the Brazilian House of Representatives during a vote on a measure that would protect the unborn from...
by APFLI | Aug 5, 2005 | Hard Cases - Incest / Rape / Congenital Anomalies / Life of Mother
The baby of brain-dead pregnant woman Susan Torres, 26, who is on life support, was born 3Aug05. Susan Torres, 26, lost consciousness from a stroke on May 7 after aggressive melanoma spread to her brain. Her husband, Jason Torres, said doctors told him his...
by APFLI | Mar 19, 2005 | Hard Cases - Incest / Rape / Congenital Anomalies / Life of Mother
Perinatal Hospice http://perinatalhospice.org Hospice care serves patients of all ages…even those yet to be born. Last year, Mary Gravina, a social worker at the nonprofit Hospice Care Network, received a call from a pregnant mother of three in Merrick....
by APFLI | Jul 27, 2004 | Hard Cases - Incest / Rape / Congenital Anomalies / Life of Mother
First, let’s define the term “rape”. We should use the phrase “forced rape” or “assault rape” for that specifies what we’re talking about. Rape can also be statutory. Depending upon your state law, statutory rape is...
by APFLI | Mar 13, 2004 | Hard Cases - Incest / Rape / Congenital Anomalies / Life of Mother
By Dr. David Reardon, Director of the Elliot Institute for Social Sciences Research, 1994 How does one intelligently discuss the complex issue of rape pregnancies and abortion in less than 800 words? Not thoroughly; but we can touch on a few highlights which will help...
by APFLI | Mar 13, 2004 | Hard Cases - Incest / Rape / Congenital Anomalies / Life of Mother
What rape takes away from a woman, abortion can not restore. Firm statistics show that in the entire United States in one year, no more than ~500 women become pregnant from assault rape. … by Frederica Matthewes-Green Opinion polls on the abortion issue...
by APFLI | Mar 13, 2004 | Hard Cases - Incest / Rape / Congenital Anomalies / Life of Mother
Keep in mind that screening/testing for genetic abnormalities can prove to be inaccurate… CYSTIC FIBROSIS SCREENING LED TO "UNNECESSARY" ABORTIONS, RESEARCHERS SAY "New Scientist" magazine has reported that a national U.S. screening program...
by APFLI | Mar 13, 2004 | Hard Cases - Incest / Rape / Congenital Anomalies / Life of Mother
I wanted to comment about hard cases. I have a son who is 7 years old who has Cornelia de Lange Syndrome. He was diagnosed at @ 4 mo. It has not been easy raising him thus far; but, I must say I would not take any amount of money for him or the experience of having...
by APFLI | Mar 13, 2004 | Hard Cases - Incest / Rape / Congenital Anomalies / Life of Mother
My name is Dr. M.M.; I am a pediatrician. Regarding children with OI type 4: although I am not an expert on this disorder, I do have some knowledge which may be of help and consolation to the parents. Osteogenesis imperfecta type 4 is the...