A 21-year-old Arizona woman who is 26 weeks pregnant with a girl who is “incompatible with life” says she is now forced to feel her unborn daughter “suffer every day” after her termination was canceled following the Supreme’s recent repeal by the Court of the Roe v. Wade ruling.
The woman, Chloe, 21, who asked for privacy reasons not to disclose her last name, was told 23 weeks into her pregnancy that her baby was “incompatible with life.”
The 21-year-old, who is from Arizona, had planned an introduction, but the day it was set to take place, Roe v. Wade was quashed.
She was then told by her doctor not to remove the baby as it still has a heartbeat meaning she will now have to wear it until it either “dies inside her” or until she gives birth on her own, despite it being has seizures ‘several times a day’ in the womb and has no chance of survival when born.
Now she’s sharing her story in hopes of raising awareness by continuing to write Instagram“What kind of sick country do we live in where we force a mother to feel her baby suffer every day until her baby dies?”
During a conversation with the Today show recently, Chloe — who already has a daughter with her fiancé, who didn’t share his name — recalled excited but nervous when she found out she was expecting another child.
A 26-week pregnant woman who found out her daughter ‘wouldn’t make it’ will not be allowed to terminate pregnancy after Supreme Court reverses Roe v. Wade ruling
Doctors have told her to wear it until it “dies inside her” or until she gives birth on her own, despite the fact that it has countless seizures and has no chance of survival.
“My daughter was five months old, so I was very nervous, but I was also very excited because I love being a mother,” she gushed. “I was very excited to have another baby.”
But after completing an anatomy scan at 21 weeks, her doctor told her he saw some ‘red flags’ and sent her to a specialist, who shared the tragic news that her baby would not survive.
“There they found out that my baby was not doing well and that her circumstances were incompatible [with life],’ she explained to the outlet.
“My OB-GYN actually gave me the options to… have an abortion, be hospitalized, or stay pregnant until [the baby] either died in me or I [went] full term.’
On Instagram, the mum-of-one said she decided to ‘terminate’ the pregnancy so she could end her baby’s ‘suffering’.
My baby suffers inside me and has seizures several times a day. I feel them all,” she wrote. “I knew I didn’t want her to suffer any longer.”
However, she explained to the Today show that she preferred her daughter to “die naturally,” so she decided to induce labor rather than abort the fetus, knowing the baby would die after the birth.
“I wanted the more intimate moment of giving birth and letting her die naturally,” she told the outlet.
“I wanted to end her suffering peacefully, and I wanted to spend some moments with her and be able to love her.”
The mother-of-one said she had informed her doctor of her decision and that he had scheduled an induction for her.
However, after it was announced that states could again ban abortion, she was told he would not be able to continue the procedure.
She is now saving to travel to another state so she can have an abortion, calling her situation “unfair” and adding that she feels “lost, torn and confused.”
She shared her story in hopes of raising awareness, writing on Instagram: ‘What kind of sick country do we live in where we force a mother to feel her baby suffer every day until it dies?’
“I thought it would be okay,” she continued on Instagram. “I thought the law wouldn’t come into effect for a while. Unfortunately that is not the case.
‘I don’t have a choice now. My doctor called me today and told me to stay pregnant until this baby inside me dies or dies when it’s born.”
According to axiosAbortion was illegal in Arizona before Roe v. Wade was passed in 1973, so when the Senate overturned it last month, “health care providers stopped performing the procedure, unsure whether the person’s law would amount to a total ban on abortion.”
Chloe, who is still pregnant despite knowing her baby isn’t going to make it, said strangers often ask her about expecting when they bump into her in public, which is hard for her.
“When I go out in public, people see my belly, they see I have a bump, they ask me questions about my pregnancy, like, ‘Is it a boy or a girl?’ or, “How far are you?” she said. “I don’t even know what to say.”
There are 18 states (including Arizona) that previously had almost complete bans on abortion, while four others had a time limit in the past. Four others are likely to pass new bans
She is now saving to travel to another state so she can have an abortion, and has started a… GoFundMe account – where she has already raised over $20,000.
She admitted on Instagram that she wasn’t going to talk about it originally, but decided to show people “different perspectives” — calling her situation “unfair” and adding that she feels “completely lost, torn and confused.” †
She also told Today: ‘I can really only describe it as a feeling of captivity. Because I can’t choose what to do regarding me and her, I just feel trapped and it’s not fair to me or anyone going through something like that.
“Mom, we should be doing the right things for our kids and I don’t think anyone wants their kids, their baby, to suffer.”
She concluded on Instagram: ‘If you’re celebrating the overthrow of Roe V. Wade, then? [middle finger]† I hope you never have to go through this.
“This is no time to be happy. we should ALL mourn the loss of women’s rights.”