Heroes: perinatal hospices

A Place to Turn When a Newborn Is Fated to Die - New York Times

Most couples choose to have an abortion when they learn that the fetus has a fatal condition. But experts say about 20 to 40 percent of families given such diagnoses opt to carry the pregnancy to term, and an increasing number of them, like the Kilibardas, have turned to programs called perinatal hospice for help with the practical and spiritual questions that arise.

The article is accompanied by an extremely touching photo of a woman feeding her severely ill baby.

Parents, children, and caregivers, all heroes.

This is respect for life.

I had two twin brothers who died the day they were born. I will be 46 Sunday; they would have been 42 or 43.

There was no perinatal hospice for them. I wish there had been.

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