Thu Jan 27, 2022 – 11:37 am ESTThu Jan 27, 2022 – 11:38 am EST
(LifeSiteNews) — A mother and her child have arrived safely at home after a doctor recommended an abortion since the baby boy had only a one percent chance of survival.
U.K. mother Ann Rice chose life for her now 9-month-old son Chester Rice. Chester was born with underdeveloped lungs, and weighing in at under two pounds at 30 weeks gestation, following 11 weeks of severe complications in which Ann’s water had broken at just 19 weeks.
“I didn’t even know it could happen, I never knew that you could break that early, and you could still continue the pregnancy,” Ann told a Wales newspaper.
“They [the doctors] said, ‘look there’s nothing we can do — if it was your waters then nature will take its course and you’ll miscarry,’” she recalled. A doctor then told her her, “You’ve got a 1% chance of the baby surviving the week.”
Another doctor told Ann she should have an abortion, as the complication, known as preterm premature rupture of membranes (PPROM), could lead to her developing sepsis and threatening her life as well as
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