Here's my two cents worth. I have an incompetent cervix and as I result, I lost a little girl in 1979. She weighed a pound, she was born alive, but she just didn't make it. Her name was Catherine Maude. I had two pregnancies after Catherine that ended the same way...I lost both of them at 18 weeks. FINALLY, a doctor thought to put the McDonald stitch in early on in my pregnancy (at 12 weeks), put me on terbutaline, and Jason (now 26-year-old) was born. I tried for a second child after Jason. I got pregnant and, at 12 weeks, they once again put the stitch in...but, it didn't hold. At 17 weeks, I was leaking and my water broke...but the baby was still going strong. The doctor on call that weekend told me that the easiest thing for me would be to just let them abort the baby...they said he wasn't going to make it anyway. I CHOSE to continue the pregnancy. I stayed in bed, in the hospital, for two weeks hoping to save that life. But, once again, infection set in, he was stillborn...and I delivered him. BUT...it was my choice to give it a shot. Personally, abortion is not right for ME...I can't make the choice for others...they should be allowed to do this. Only my opinion.

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