Erin Grall and Jenna Persons-Mulicka, who co-sponsored the state’s 15-week ban, for comment on Dorbert’s situation. Interactive: A lonely struggle: Nine mothers share the mental health challenges they faced during ‘the happiest time of their lives’ĬNN reached out to Florida state Reps. The only options were to go out of state to get an abortion or to carry the baby to full term, and Dorbert and her husband didn’t have the money to travel. Her doctors told her it was too late to terminate the pregnancy in Florida, which bans nearly all abortions after 15 weeks. Not only was the baby sure to die, her doctors told her, but the pregnancy put her at especially high risk of preeclampsia, a potentially deadly complication.
She said her pregnancy was proceeding normally until November, when, at 24 weeks, an ultrasound showed that the fetus did not have kidneys and that she had hardly any amniotic fluid.
“I watched my child take his first breath, and I held him as he took his last one.” “He gasped for air a couple of times when I held him,” said Dorbert, 33. A Florida woman, unable to get an abortion in her state, carried to term a baby who had no kidneys.ĭeborah Dorbert’s son Milo died in her arms on March 3, shortly after he was born, just as her doctors had predicted he would.
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