Posts Tagged ‘Back alley births’

Joy was a sick little girl. Only 14 weeks old since her conception, she was diagnosed with hydroencephaly. That meant her brain wouldn’t develop properly; that it would fill with fluid; that her chance of surviving to birth was bleak; and that if she actually was born, she had minimal chance for any kind of normal life. Her life and death are immediately relevant as Obamacare begins to impose its will on medical decisions.