"...they said he had several markers for Down Syndrome and that I should abort."
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"Choosing adoption is the strongest, bravest, most selfless, most loving thing you could do! Be someone's miracle!"
"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..."
"My wife was conceived in 1973 with the rape of a 12 year old orphan, Gail..."
"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..."
"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."
"So I was going to be a single mom. Crazy. Interesting. Not what I had planned. Then my gender ultrasound came up and my baby had markers for Down Syndrome and Trisomy 18."