Trisomy 18 had a 95% fatality rate during pregnancy. If her child is one of the lucky 5% who lives, there is another 40% they will die during birth. If they survive the birth, there is a 90% chance they will die before the first year. Overall, there is than .3 percent chance Kate’s baby will live. She is not avoiding having a child that is developmentally delayed, she wants to spare her child a painful death. Meanwhile, Kate Cox has been to the ER 3 times last week for care due to complications from her pregnancy. Her doctors have stated if her pregnancy continues, her health is at serious risk. They say if her pregnancy continues the baby most likely will have to be born via Caesarian. Katie cox has already had several cesareans, and having another one will likely damage her uterus where she can’t further children. In addition, with the number of pregnancy complications happening her health is being put at risk, and her doctors agree the pregnancy could progress to the point where her life is at stake. Kate has two children, are you suggesting she risk her life and her chance to have further children at the so that she 99.7% chance she have a dangerous pregnancy and watch her child suffer a horrible death? Is it fair to her existing children she risk her life and leave them without a mother so that they can watch their sibling die?
Kate instead is leaving the state to get an abortion so she can get better. She and her family want another baby. I don’t think she should risk death and her future fertility and her family’s chance to have another baby so that she can watch her child die a painful death. This is not eugenics. This is the government getting involved her health care to the point where she has to suffer serious repercussions over someone else deciding what gets to happen to her body.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/12/11/kate-cox-texas-abortion/

I don’t know the exact disease my cousins baby had. She never told me. She just told me about what happened at that appointment. Likely she was too distraught to remember the scientific names or the exact details. I know she thought long and hard about it.

Are you an obgyn doctor who knows all the details and possibilities about things that can go wrong with a pregnancy? Are you fully educated on all the details of pregnancy and the various complications? Or a skilled psychologist? Are you an expert on fetal pain, and infant death? Do you believe you or any one else has a right to decide exactly how much these women’s lives are at risk when medical staff should intervene? Are you saying you know when it’s best for my cousin to have to give a very painful birth and watch her deformed child die outside her womb? That that is what is best for her and baby?
These are really complex personal questions, and they should be made by the poor mother in the position with her doctor. Not by strangers, politicians, you or anyone else. It’s very easy to volunteer someone else to suffer horrific physical, psychological pain and serious health risks if you don’t have to experience it yourself. You don’t know what these babies have to go through to be born and have an extremely painful death, and what the mothers and their families have to go through. You will never have to deal with watching Kate’s baby die, or her loss of fertility, or the potential loss of her life. That needs to be her decision with the help of her doctor. Pregnancy is very dangerous, women and babies die from it. Women should be in charge if they want to risk their lives for each situation.