The doctor did not want to take me off life .
support, because they thought they could save my child. The doctors were not too sure that my child would make it two more months and if he did they were not sure how healthy/normal it would be. I started to get really aggravated, because I have always believed that everything happens for a reason, including the accident. I know I am not going to make it and I want my baby to be with his mother in heaven; I need to take care of him. My baby is the first grandchild my parents and my husbands parents will have and I know it is very hard for them to just let me and the baby go, but there is a reason for it. They said that if I was taken off life-support that I would be aborting my baby. I would love to shout out to them that according to the Encyclopedia Britannica the definition of abortion is : The expulsion of a fetus from the uterus before it has reached the stage of viability (in humans about the 20th week of gestation). An abortion may occur spontaneously, in which case it is also called a miscarriage, or it may be brought on purposefully, in which case it is often called an induced abortion. In my case the child would not be kept alive without me being kept on artificial life-support. I am not killing my child, I am practically dead myself so my child has nothing to keep him strong, but a machine. Some of the nurses were talking the other day in my room about abortion. I laid on my death bed day in and day out unable to talk or move or show any signs of life at all and I just listen helplessly to Dr. Frasier try to convince my family to make me hold on for two more months and then they can perform cesarean section. I kept on listening to the doctor talk about how he was not 50 percent sure my baby will make it at all even if they keep me on life-support. If my baby does make it then he has a very high chance of having significant birth defects.