A teenage mother who had an abortion was shocked to
discover she was still pregnant three months later.
Shannon Skinner, 19, had the abortion when she was
eight weeks pregnant, having decided it was too soon to
have a second child.
She and her 24 years old partner Anthony Hunt already
have a 9 month old child.
But in a rare occurrence, the abortion failed and
Shannon continued having morning sickness and
feeling movements in her womb.
Doctors told her they were side effects of the abortion,
but after three months, tests revealed the mother-of-one
was pregnant - and her baby daughter had miraculously
survived the induced miscarriage.
Scans have since shown that her baby looks physically
fine and she is due to be born on May 7.
According to Shannon:
‘We thought she had gone. I had grieved for that baby
and we'd just managed to get our heads around it.
Anthony and I felt like we'd made the right decision
because we were having problems and we didn't think
it was right to bring a baby into that.
I'd always been one of those people that was against
abortions and hated them but I was suffering with post-
natal depression. Lacie was just four months old at the
time, so I had to do what I thought was best. But it was
not an easy decision and I regretted it straight away
after it and even at the time didn't know if I was doing
the right thing.
The couple have been told that survival after a medical
abortion occurs in just three per cent of cases.
They are still inside the legal 24-week termination limit
but the couple say their baby girl is now too old and has
been put through too much.
Ms Skinner, a stay-at-home mother, said:
We've now decided to keep the baby, as we don't feel
it's right to have an abortion at this stage. She's
obviously a little fighter, and we don't want to cause her
any more harm. When I had the abortion it didn't feel
the same as it does now - we have seen her and her
heartbeat.’
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