Doctors told Jodie to have an abortion of her "disabled baby."
But she REFUSED.
And now her daughter is happy and healthy!
At 30 weeks of pregnancy, Australian mom Jodie was told to abort what likely would be her only child.
She said she had suffered several miscarriages and her daughter was the first to survive that long. Because of her age and a recent break-up with her child’s father, she knew her baby girl likely would be her only child.
But when doctors discovered that her unborn daughter might have Down syndrome, they urged Jodie to throw away her dreams – and end her daughter’s life.
“I looked up the reality of terminating a child at that gestation, and it destroyed me. I would be induced and give birth to a dead child. I just couldn’t do it,” Jodie said. “Everything in me said, ‘No, this doesn’t make sense.’”
Jodie chose life and today is the mother of a happy, healthy little girl.
“She’s everything that I’ve ever wanted in life in a tiny little package of perfection,” she said.
From the start, she said she faced pressure to abort her unborn daughter.
“They said because of my age, my past history as a smoker and other statistics that there was a high risk of Down syndrome,” Jodie told the blog. “They wanted me to look at abortion then. It infuriated me.”
The abortion pressure increased during her 30-week ultrasound when testing indicated her daughter was missing part of her brain, pituitary gland and optic nerves.
“That’s when they said, ‘We think you need to terminate,’” Jodie said. “It was horrendous. I was spiraling. I lost it. I burst into tears. I couldn’t hear anything after that.”
Jodie said she looked up what a late-term abortion would be like and immediately decided against it. A late-term abortion typically is a three-day procedure that begins with injecting poison into the baby’s heart to kill her. Then, about two days later, labor is induced and the mother gives birth to a dead child.
Rejecting the horrific practice, Jodie said she was resolved to fight for her daughter.
“From that moment on, I stopped doing the ‘what ifs’ and just kept going,” she said.
Her daughter, Jasmine, was born. Other than having jaundice, she was healthy.
“Before I became pregnant, I was seeing a suicide counselor but now I can’t imagine not being here,” Jodie said. “I’m a million percent grateful that I didn’t listen to the doctors. … She’s completely changed my world. I’m a different person and a better version of myself because of her.”
@Borgialord@reddit_lies The moral equation is different when preventing a child, vs a child existing.
What's wrong is that they've been made to believe that abortion "prevents a child".
And as such, they believe they're"saving" the child from a bad situation.
It's magical thinking.
@TheFoxesSay@reddit_lies As long as they still believe the pro-choice lies, there's only increased useless suffering and ostracism in it for them.
The biggest lie is that it's ALL on them, therefore they have no right to complain.
But in reality, society should never have preyed on their vulnerability.
@transcended@reddit_lies They've been brainwashed into thinking that they're "preventing" a real child via abortion.
It's magical thinking, but it gets treated like a fact in most of our society.
Someone who is insecure, scared and/or alone, is especially vulnerable to making this "right choice".
@Kiekkokirja@__mariasofia@NNationalisti Ongelma onkin kun vauva tarkoituksellisesti erotetaan ihmisestä, jonka kehoa vauva kokee olevansa osa.
Pentujakaan ei tulisi erottaa emostaan ennen kuin ne ovat vieroitusikäisiä.
Vauvat syntyvät biologisesti katsoen keskosina, joten meillä tuo aika on vieläpä harvinaisen pitkä.
@lynnanabanny@JadeK526 I'm sorry, but we women actually can refuse to participate in allowing irresponsible men ejaculating inside us.
We're not just helpless victims here 🤷🏼♀️
@EinienX@pinkheretic@davidamusick I mean, of course those people exist too, but that's not the point.
We'd ALL encourage everyone NOT to have unwanted children, regardless of if we tell them to abort or not.
And doesn't abortion prevent unwanted children, as you see it?
@EinienX@pinkheretic@davidamusick I already explained.
There's nothing wrong with preventing a child (which we're made to believe abortion achieves), whereas it can be wrong to create one in a bad situation.
Encouraging people not to do the latter, is just common sense.
@EinienX@pinkheretic@davidamusick Of course they are, in every situation that isn't ideal to have a child in. What world do you live in?
Isn't it better to "prevent a child" than have a child under bad conditions?