I Didn’t Want to Terminate My Pregnancy at 20 Weeks. But I Needed To

I ended my pregnancy when I was 20 weeks and three days pregnant. I was 32 years old, happily married and overjoyed when I felt my baby kick for the first time. I didn't want to have an abortion. But my husband and I made the choice after finding out our baby boy was too sick to live outside my womb.

At every doctor appointment that my husband and I had gone to in my first trimester and early second, we were told our baby looked healthy.