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After years of trying to get pregnant, she and her husband finally succeeded. But later, they got some sobering news.
April and her husband would have to wait longer than expected to bring a child home with them. Doctors told them that the baby had what's called lethal skeletal dysplasia. Essentially, this meant that just moments after birth, her newborn son would suffocate and die.
April was faced with a painful decision: She could have an abortion, or she could carry the fetus to term, knowing it wouldn't survive for more than a few painful minutes. At 21-weeks pregnant, April chose to have an abortion.
"If I had been forced to carry my pregnancy to term, my life would be very different now."
How might her life have changed if she gave birth to a son with no chance of survival? How would things be different?
"I can't imagine giving birth and watching my son suffer," she says.
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