When prenatal testing reveals that a fetus has a serious birth defect, some women may consider ending their pregnancies.
Every year an estimated 7.9 million children - 6% of total births worldwide - are born with a serious birth defect of genetic or partially genetic origin.
Babli, 22, was five months pregnant when she found out her baby had anencephaly – a serious birth defect in which the brain and skull do not develop properly.
Her savings have been drained to help pay medical expenses for a niece with a serious birth defect, and all that remains is a 401 (k) retirement plan that would be wiped out in little time under Walton's order.
Eva Ottosson, 56, the director of a lighting company, said she would offer her uterus to her 25-year-old daughter, Sara, who cannot have children because of a serious birth defect that left her without a womb.
In "Lélé" a small-town Haitian woman, who knows that the child she is carrying has a serious birth defect, leaves the baby's father, convinced that had she never ventured into the adult world of relationships, she might have remained exempt from the worst losses and woes of life.
Roughly 6% of all births have a serious birth defect, which is genetic or partly genetic in origin (Christianson et al., 2006).
And the fetal surgeons working with Messersmith are testing whether the glue can help reseal the tissue surrounding the spinal cord to repair a serious birth defect known spinal bifida in rabbits.
