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When medical imaging forces impossible choices

The ultrasound showed our baby has a heart defect and my husband wants to terminate but I keep thinking about the 80% survival rate the doctor mentioned.

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Statistical hope and statistical risk can tear a relationship apart when they lead to opposite conclusions about the same future.

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