Fifty years of legalized abortion on demand have turned American values on their head.
Discrimination is considered “compassionate” and protecting children’s lives is “cruel” – especially when it comes to unborn babies diagnosed with fatal medical disorders.
The message comes from doctors, leading medical groups, politicians and the media, as well as the pro-abortion movement. And their lies and propaganda have succeeded in convincing many vulnerable, heartbroken couples that having their sick baby poisoned or dismembered in the womb is more loving than allowing the child to live and die naturally.
Such was the case with a Kentucky couple that CNN recently interviewed. Heather and Nick Maberry, of Stanton, blasted their home state for its elective abortion ban, claiming the law prevented them from holding their baby girl, Willow Rose.
“Please keep our little bean in your prayers as we wait for our first doctor appointment,” Heather wrote on Facebook in December, sharing the news of their pregnancy with family and friends. “Everything seems to be going good so far. The girls and us are so excited.”
In April, however, at five months of pregnancy, Willow was diagnosed with anencephaly, a fatal condition in which the baby’s brain and skull do not develop properly, according to the report. Doctors told the Maberrys that their daughter would die in the womb or soon after birth.
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“Please keep Nick, me, and our girls in your prayers,” Heather wrote on Facebook, sharing an ultrasound image of Willow. “We just received the worst news about our baby girl. This is our baby girl, Willow Rose. We love you so very much!!!”
Soon, Heather decided that she wanted an abortion. She told CNN that she had high blood pressure and hyperemesis, and did not want to continue the pregnancy if her baby girl was going to die anyway.
But Kentucky law protects unborn babies from being killed in elective abortions, so the Maberrys traveled to Chicago instead.
According to CNN:
Since Kentucky Medicaid wouldn’t cover the procedure, the Maberrys sought help from organizations that support abortion and from family and friends, but they still couldn’t raise enough for an induction.
A clinic in Chicago agreed to do a surgical procedure called a dilation and evacuation for free, and organizations that support abortion rights paid for their travel expenses, Heather said.
She said the procedure was “a nightmare” and “the worst pain ever” – much more painful than giving birth to her daughters.
It also was a nightmare for their unborn daughter, although the Maberrys probably were not told that. A dilation and evacuation also is known as a dismemberment abortion, a procedure in which the abortionist dilates the woman’s cervix and then uses steel instruments to pull the baby’s body apart, limb by limb, while his/her heart is still beating.
Most families are not informed about the gruesome, violent reality of abortion.
And because Willow’s body was dismembered, the Maberrys did not have the chance to hold her and say goodbye, as they wanted to.
In the CNN interview, the family lashed out against the Kentucky pro-life law, blaming it for preventing them from holding their daughter.
“We’ll never know what her face looked like. We’ll never know what it was like to hold her in her arms,” Heather said. “We’re grieving someone that we’ve never seen.”
But it was abortion activists’ lies, not pro-life laws, and the Maberrys’ own choice to seek an abortion that kept them from holding their daughter.
It is clear that they loved and valued Willow. Their desire to hold her and their grief and anger over her death demonstrate that. But, in their heartbreak over the diagnosis, they were vulnerable to the pervasive lies about abortion.
Frequently, families say doctors and genetic counselors pressure mothers to have abortions after their unborn baby is diagnosed with a medical condition. Often, the child’s condition is presented in the worst terms and families are not informed about resources, such as perinatal hospice and support groups, to help grieving families. Perinatal hospice would have helped the Maberrys fulfill their desire to hold their daughter. The program provides grief support and planning services to families of babies diagnosed with fatal disabilities, working with hospital staff to prepare for the baby’s birth and death, as well as arranging for photographs and other mementos of the baby, funeral arrangements and more.
Instead of being offered these life-affirming options, too many families are told that having their unborn baby killed in an abortion is the only compassionate thing to do.
It is this pro-abortion mindset, not pro-life laws, that is damaging families like the Maberrys. They and their daughter deserved better.
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