By Brandy Zadrozny
Twenty weeks into Taylor
Mahaffey’s pregnancy, her baby started emerging from her womb, with
doctors powerless to stop it—and because of Texas’s fetal-pain law, all
the hospital could do was send her home.
Daniel and Taylor Mahaffey were 20 weeks pregnant and desperately wanted their child, but when doctors informed them a complication meant the fetus had no chance of survival, they just wanted their baby’s suffering to end. Yet because of their state’s “fetal pain” law, the married Texans say they were forced to endure a stillbirth and wait as their baby slowly died in utero.
The Mahaffeys had begun decorating the nursery in anticipation for the little boy they planned to name Fox, after one of the Lost Boys in Peter Pan.
On
Wednesday night, Taylor, 23, felt something abnormal and since their
last pregnancy ended in miscarriage, they rushed to the hospital. By the
time they got there, Fox’s feet were already pushing through his
mother’s cervix. Doctors tried several emergency measures to stop the
preterm labor, including putting Taylor on an incline in the hopes that
they could perform a cervical cerclage—a procedure in which doctors
stitch shut the cervix. Nothing worked. Nothing could save him.
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Source: The Daily Beast
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