Texas mother Kate Cox on the outcome of her legal fight for an abortion: "It was crushing"
Lifelong Texans Kate and Justin Cox were already parents to a young girl and boy when they found out last August that Kate was pregnant again. "We have the two children that we absolutely adore, and yeah, the thought of having a third one added to the family was incredible," Justin said.
But a series of tests revealed the baby they were expecting, a girl, had trisomy 18, a genetic condition that causes severe developmental problems.
According to a 2016 study, nine out of 10 infants won't survive more than a year. And for Kate and Justin's baby, the prognosis was even more grim.
Kate said, "We asked, 'How long we could have with our baby – best-case scenario?' And she said she thought maybe a week. … If she survived the pregnancy and the birth, that it might be a week. And what that would mean as far as – I didn't want to watch her suffer. That would be very hard. She would have had to be placed directly on to hospice. There's no treatment that can be done." ...
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