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Article: Mum defies docs' abort baby order.
- Article from:
- Sunderland Echo (Pennywell, England)
- Article date:
- March 6, 2006
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THIS is the healthy baby boy a couple were told they should abort.
Stacy Jackson said ten-week-old son Jaxon would not be here, if she had followed hospital advice to terminate her pregnancy.
Stacy and partner Scott claimed they were warned at Sunderland Royal Hospital that their baby would be so severely brain damaged it would be best to have an abortion.
First-time mum Stacy, 20, of Grangetown, said: "We were told the baby would be lucky to get through the pregnancy or that even if he did he may only last a day, a week or a month, but that he would not survive."I was just so upset, it was such a shock. I think it must have been motherly ...