Check out this story in the Daily Mail, and the Telegraph:

Parents are celebrating their first New Year with their 10 month old baby after they rejected recommendations from doctors to abort their baby following a diagnosis of a fatal chromosome defect, Edwards syndrome, and the diagnosis of a life threatening heart condition called hypoplastic aortic arch. Following tests after the baby was born, doctors confirmed that Edwards syndrome had been misdiagnosed, and the baby’s heart condition has confounded medical opinion by miraculously curing itself.

This story demonstrates yet again the inaccuracy of disability testing, and that the best medical care for babies is the only appropriate response to disability. The parents are reported to have said: ‘We never once considered we could go through an abortion. It was never even an option for us. We refused to give up on him and decided throughout the pregnancy that as long as he was fighting, we would continue fighting with him. It is a complete horror to think he may not be here with us.’

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