Thu May 4, 2023 – 6:50 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — “I watched my child take his first breath, and I held him as he took his last one,” a Florida mother said of her baby boy Milo, who lived 94 minutes outside the womb after being born with no kidneys.
Milo’s mother snuggled him, sang to him, and read him a book before he passed away in her arms after a challenging and emotionally draining pregnancy.
Now, according to CNN, Milo’s mom, Deborah Dorbert, is angry at pro-life Florida lawmakers for preventing her from ending Milo’s life before he had that chance to breathe, to meet his mother, and to hear her voice as she sang to him.
The story is absolutely devastating. At about 24 weeks’ gestation, little Milo was diagnosed with Potter’s syndrome, in which a baby’s kidneys don’t develop. Dorbert was also at risk of preeclampsia, which is sometimes deadly (about 1.5% of cases are fatal) and often leads to premature delivery.
I can’t imagine the pain, the fear, and the uncertainty that the Doberts must have felt, and it must have been heartbreaking for them to meet little Milo only to see
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