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By Bridget Sielicki When Phil and Elisabeth Scott went into the hospital to give birth to their daughter Brianna, they hadn’t even purchased a bassinet to bring their daughter home. Instead, the couple had been shopping for tiny coffins. Brianna had received a...
By Monica Snyder, Executive Director, Secular Pro-Life Trisomy 18 ‘fatality’ ignores worth of born, living children with the condition Important article for your consideration: “Texas woman seeking abortion argued Trisomy 18 is lethal. Michigan children prove it’s...
By Nancy Flanders Henry Jernigan and his wife Elizabeth learned they were expecting their first child just two days after the attack on the United States on September 11, 2001. It was a time when Americans lived in shock and worry, and the Jernigans wondered what it...
By Guest Blogger Editor’s note. This appeared at Secular Pro-Life and reposted with permission. March was Trisomy Awareness Month, and this condition is one of many prenatal diagnoses often used to defend the “need” for abortion. In Secular Pro-Life’s series, “Stories...
By Michael New, Mary Szoch, and Jennifer Bauwens In last week’s State of the Union address, President Biden recognized a woman who procured an abortion after receiving a diagnosis of a serious fetal anomaly. In recent years, many have used the potential future...
Despite what many media outlets said about the Kate Cox case, children with Trisomy 18 are both viable and valuable. By Sarah Terzo Kate Cox and Media Coverage Kate Cox sued Texas for permission to abort her baby, who had Trisomy 18. Cox’s doctor told Cox her baby was...
By Beverly Jacobson The day I first heard the words "Trisomy 18" was the worst day of my life. I was 18 weeks along in my pregnancy with our ninth baby. That phone call from the doctor turned our lives upside down. To be honest, it had taken me a couple of months to...
By Cassy Fiano-Chesser Parents of children with Trisomy 18 are outraged over the media’s false reporting of the condition amid the headline-dominating case of a Texas woman who sued the state, claiming she needed a “medically necessary” abortion after her child with...
By Chris Alexis A lot of people have read about Kate Cox, whose unborn child was diagnosed with Trisomy 18, and their hearts have ached for her. It's an intense scenario that no one could fully appreciate unless they've been there. But with the pain comes a message of...
By Nancy Flanders Photo via Prayers for Brianna Joy Facebook page. Atop a Tennessee mountain in 2019, Virginia Delegate Phil Scott and his wife Elisabeth received a devastating phone call. Testing that Elisabeth and their preborn baby girl had undergone...