#112 | Late-Term Abortion: Andrea's Story of Choosing the Impossible
Down to Birth
English - July 14, 2021 09:00 - 36 minutes - 49.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 418 ratingsParenting Kids & Family Health & Fitness pregnancy childbirth hypnobirthing pregnant postpartum breastfeeding maternity motherhood birth newborn Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Trigger Warning: This episode contains sensitive content and detail and may not be for everyone. We share this story because we know many women, like Andrea, suffer with the nearly impossible choices around late term abortion.
Andrea is a singer/songwriter living in NYC who wants to be a mother. She joins us on the show today to share her heart-wrenching story of choosing between having a severely disabled child or letting go of the baby she desperately wanted, not once, but twice. She has been pregnant three times, one ending in a spontaneous miscarriage, and the other two ending with the agonizing experience of choosing late-term termination. In both cases, she was faced with a short window of time to determine the level of viability of her babies using the available screening tests for 1st and 2nd trimester genetic and anatomical screening. Today's story sheds light on the question of how we judge ourselves and others in making these nearly impossible choices.
At the closing of the episode, Andrea sings a song from her newest album release, titled "Bruno" in honor of her journey in pregnancy and loss.
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