James P. Greenwood: “In March 1995, Tammy Watts from Arizona and her husband Mitch made the agonizing decision to end a wanted pregnancy at…”

“In March 1995, Tammy Watts from Arizona and her husband Mitch made the agonizing decision to end a wanted pregnancy at 28 weeks gestation. It would have been their first child. The fetus, however, had extensive, ultimately lethal, anomalies related to a genetic condition known as trisomy-13. The Watts daughter, which they had already named McKenzie, was missing chambers in her heart, her brain was severely damaged and her skull had not formed in the back. Her liver and kidneys were oversized and already failing irreparably.”