- by Kaitlyn Neath

When I was 26 weeks pregnant with our first, I went into early labour and gave birth to our daughter, Braylie.
She had been previously diagnosed with IUGR and was roughly 18 weeks gestational size.
Her lungs were not developed enough for her to breathe on her own.
She weighed just 355g.

The doctor asked us before she was born if we would like to be transferred to a different hospital, where they may have been able to prolong her life, but it was inevitable that at some point, she would die.

We held her for a while before she passed. It was difficult, horrible, actually, but it was absolutely the right thing to do.
Circumstances like this, in which a baby is very unlikely to survive, are the only times that conversations like this would ever take place. And it is not execution.

This is a call from Trump to prolong the suffering of dying infants and their parents. I am mortified.
This is the President of the United States, misrepresenting the facts to appeal to people’s emotions. To enrage them. To engage them to fight against abortion rights.

I didn’t have an abortion, my baby was stillborn,  and that is what he wants to criminalize.
If abortion becomes illegal, women who have suffered through pregnancy loss may also stand trial, as they are accused of murder.

This cannot be our reality.