We Overcame a Grim Prenatal Prognosis
Doctors said our baby couldn’t survive birth. We tried something new, and it worked.
Radical legislation in New York and Virginia has brought late-term abortion into the spotlight. Advocates justify the practice on the ground that, as one put it, “terminations after 24 weeks are for severe fetal anomalies.”
I have some personal perspective on the matter. In 2013, during my second term in Congress, my husband, Dan, and I were excited first-time parents when we went in for my 20-week ultrasound. We weren’t prepared for what we were told: Our unborn baby had no chance of survival. There were no kidneys. She...