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Headline : How 2 Families Faced a Catastrophic Birth Defect

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Cases of trisomy 18 may rise as many states restrict abortion. But some women choose to have the babies, love them tenderly and care for them devotedly.

Ashlee Wiseman with her daughter, Lennie Cardwell-Risenmay, who was born with trisomy 18, at home in Midvale, Utah. Credit...

Gina Kolata traveled to Utah to visit two families caring for babies with trisomy 18 and the doctor who counsels them.

Ashlee Wiseman, a waitress at a Sizzler in Idaho Falls, Idaho, was 10 weeks pregnant when a nurse phoned with crushing news: a test of fetal DNA in her blood had found that her baby girl had trisomy 18, a catastrophic genetic abnormality, and was unlikely to survive.

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