Parents chose life for daughter given two per cent chance of survival

A woman in the US whose parents refused to abort her following the diagnosis of a rare genetic abnormality has urged others to choose life.

At about 18 weeks gestation, Lindy Navarro’s parents were told that she had Turner Syndrome (TS). Medics gave their daughter only a two per cent chance of surviving a full-term pregnancy and recommended an abortion.

Despite the struggles she faces because of her condition, she still believes that her parents made the right decision.

‘Give life a chance’

In an article for Oregon Right to Life News, Navarro admits: “Statistically speaking, I shouldn’t be alive.”

But, she writes, “I never understood the logic of encouraging somebody to abort a child, even with such grim chances of survival.

“If we abort the baby, they have a 100% chance of death. If we don’t abort them? They may only have a 2% chance of survival, but somebody has to make up that 2%. What if they’re in that 2%? Why would we not give life a chance?

“If the choice is almost-certain death, or certain death, why are we immediately choosing death?”

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• 29 Apr 2026

Abortion has been legal in England, Wales and Scotland since 1967, and in Northern Ireland since 2020. Women in England and Wales can now kill their babies in the womb at any time without sanction, although the 24-week limit still applies to doctors. In Scotland, abortion is legal up to 24 weeks for most reasons, while in Northern Ireland, abortion is available on demand, for any or no reason, up to twelve weeks. In all parts of the UK, abortion because of disability is allowed up to birth.

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