Mom pens powerful letter to doctor who urged her to abort child with Down syndrome
More than a year after Courtney Baker had her daughter Emersyn Faith, she decided it was time to write a letter to the prenatal specialist who encouraged Baker to abort her child.
Emersyn, or Emmy for short, was diagnosed with Down syndrome prenatally, and Baker explains that the doctor “repeatedly suggested we abort. He said her and our quality of life would be horrible.”
So Baker wrote the letter, and with her 15-month-old’s help, they mailed it to the doctor in late May. The contents of the letter were then shared to the Parker Myles Facebook page, which highlights inspirational content about children with Down syndrome. It has been shared more than 2,400 times at time of writing.
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Image: Courtney Williams Baker via Parker Myles
“He was so unbelievably wrong,” Baker wrote to the Facebook page. “I want to do something to advocate, but other than my letter to him, I don’t know what yet. Can you please share my photo?”
“Every action from opening and closing the mailbox, to raising the red flag, was closure for me,” Baker told ABC News. “I have no idea how the doctor might have reacted to my letter, but I do have faith that God can work any miracle and He can change any heart.”
[h/t: Parker Myles]
