British woman rejects abortion, cancer treatment to protect pre-born baby
A young U.K. mother is risking her life to save her unborn child, forgoing both an abortion and rigorous cancer treatment so that her child can live.
Heidi Loughlin learned when she was three months pregnant in September that she had inflammatory breast cancer, and doctors gave her the option to abort her child so she could commence chemotherapy, since the treatment would endanger her unborn baby.
But an abortion was no guarantee of improving her prognosis with the rare and aggressive cancer....