I have never read a story like this one
before. Sarah Carpenter, a married woman with two children, becomes
pregnant with her third child. After finding out that the child had a
disability, she and her husband Andrew make the decision to abort the
child in order to spare him from having a bad life.
The gut-wrenching thing about this story is that everything inside
this woman—her conscience, her maternal instinct—is telling her to
protect her baby. But her doctor and family members are telling her to
spare her child by killing him. In other words, she has a very
real sense of what she ought to do, but her conscience collapses
underneath the weight of the culture of death. What follows is an
extended excerpt from the article in which this mother explains her
decision, her abortion, and its aftermath. Read it. Weep. Pray.
Maranatha.
And so it was that a week after that
first scan, and against my initial instincts, I realised I couldn’t
bring this child into the world, knowing the extent to which he would
suffer. Continue at Denny Burk
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