Wed Nov 9, 2022 – 5:00 pm EST
(LifeSiteNews) — On this week’s episode of The Van Maren Show, Jonathon interviews Irish pro-life activist Vicky Wall about how the experience of having a stillborn daughter led her to become a defender of mothers and children in similarly heartbreaking situations.
Vicky is the founder of Every Life Counts, an online support network for parents with children diagnosed with “life-limiting” or terminal conditions. On this week’s episode you’ll hear Vicky share moving testimony about her daughter Líadán, who was diagnosed in the womb with Trisomy 18, a condition that very few afflicted babies manage to survive.
Despite Líadán’s poor odds of survival and Vicky’s doctor telling her the “only option” was to “pop over to England” — i.e., to get an abortion, which was banned in Ireland at the time — Vicky knew in her heart that Líadán was not “incompatible” with life.
“She’s kicking, waving, and she’s actually sucking her thumb, which they said that she couldn’t do, and [the doctor is] saying … that she’s just not compatible with life,” Vicky tells Jonathon. “So I think he knew by my face that I was horrified that
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