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But the weight of their son’s disabilities soon led to heartbreak. Not only were his arms missing, but the family soon learned that he also lacked a fibula and his stomach was smaller than it should have been. Additionally, one of his feet was malformed and had to be placed into a cast, according to the report.
“I thought, ‘Why us? Why our child?’” Mariaan said. “You pray and you ask for a healthy child, but then this happens. But if I had to choose today, I would take him just like that, again, without arms.”
A turning point for the family came three months later when Hendré took a first step to overcoming his disabilities.
“… he taught himself to roll from place to place, and it was like a cloud lifted,” his mother said. “I realized my child was OK, then I was OK and the depression went away.”
Since then, his father said Hendré has learned to cross the room to get toys on his own: “he moves or he pulls his little legs under him and pushes himself forward.”
Their story echoes hundreds of similar accounts of families facing intense pressure to abort unborn babies with disabilities. Some parents say they were pressured to abort their unborn babies right up until birth, and others accused doctors of scheduling abortion appointments without even asking them. Tragically, many parents succumb to the pressure. In Iceland, for example, nearly 100 percent of unborn babies diagnosed with Down syndrome are aborted.
To parents in those difficult situations, Mariaan urged them to think again before going through with the abortion.
“I wish they could hear me when I tell them it’s okay to have a child who’s different from society’s idea of ‘normal,’” she said. “Hendré is the greatest gift we could have received.”
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