Abort Millions for the Right to Abort One?

The November 4, 2015 edition of the Boston Globe published yet another Why I Had My Abortion story.  This is the current media trend in order to "normalize" abortion and generate some sense of pride about it. Sadly, most women I talk with in the emergency department have deep and long-lasting regrets.  In this article, too, the pain is palpable.

"We weighed every scrap of information in the context of our unique situation." Trish Karter writes.

Unique, indeed. After conceiving a son and a daughter through fertility treatments (no mention if this involved IVF in which she would have chosen to implant two children), she discovered her daughter had Trisomy 8.

Here are her reasons for aborting her daughter; note that none of them contain any certainties.

1. "In 1993, our doctors told us that while our unborn son was healthy, his twin sister might not make it to term and would probably not survive childhood."
• The abortion assured she didn't.
2. "I learned that her condition might cause a spontaneous loss of both babies."
• Or it might not. Keeping abortion legal means millions of babies could be killed in order to possibly increase her one son's chance of surviving.
3. "If born, she would most likely have devastating limitations and maladies."
• While Trish's baby had Trisomy 8, babies with another genetic abnormality, Trisomy 21 (also known as Downs Syndrome) are aborted 90% of the time.  This is likely a driving force behind keeping abortion legal for people like Trish.
4. "There were also unquantifiable threats to my health if we decided to try to bring both babies into the world."
• I am not sure what those would be apart from any other twin pregnancy.
5. "We would likely not have another opportunity to have a second child, since this pregnancy was the happy result of years of fertility treatments."
• Again, we will legally abort millions of babies, and accept that she could abort one, so she could have that particular baby?

Trish concludes with, "I don’t share our story now because it is unique; I share it because it isn’t." Many of the people who do share her story have conceived "abnormal" babies and were heartbroken to "have to" abort them.  Her story could very well have been about her two wonderful babies even though the doctors advised her to have an abortion.