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Thursday, February 22, 2018

Testing for Down Syndrome, When Woman Sees Ultrasound, She Realizes She’s Pregnant With “a Little Person”


By Sarah Terzo
National Right to Life

From a woman who was being tested to see if her baby had Down syndrome or another handicap; she had been considering abortion if the baby was discovered to be disabled. She’s describing what she saw on the ultrasound:
“I was on this incredible high, like I saw the head and the little shoulders and then I came home and I suddenly crashed because I thought, there was this little person, I mean, it looked like a little person. And I was more upset than I’d ever been because what would I do? You know, would I have an abortion? Because here I’ve seen it, and it looks like a little person.”
Rayna Rapp, “Testing Women, Testing the Fetus: the Social Impact of Amniocentesis in America” (New York: Routledge, 1999) p. 129

Editor’s note. This appeared at Clinic Quotes and is reposted with permission.


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