Nebraska legislators hear from proponents of bill designed to promote hospice care for babies with

Nebraska legislators hear from proponents of bill designed to promote hospice care for babies with fatal birth defects

LINCOLN — The first ultrasound of Sarah Taylor’s pregnancy showed she was carrying a baby girl.

The second one showed her baby had anencephaly, a birth defect that meant she was missing most of her brain and skull. It also meant she would die shortly after birth, if she survived that long.

Taylor said her doctor told her most women, faced with such a pregnancy, choose abortion.

But the Blair woman decided to continue her pregnancy. Her child was born at 36 weeks and lived 2 hours and 15 minutes.

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