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Shortly after their wedding, Corbella found out she was pregnant, but the child was diagnosed with anencephaly, a serious birth defect in which the baby is born without parts of the brain or skull.

Almost every baby with anencephaly dies within days or is stillborn. According to the Fetal Health Foundation, around 10% of infants with anencephaly live for up to a week.

As testing has increased, so has the rate at which babies with disabilities are aborted. In the U.S., 67 percent of babies prenatally diagnosed with Down syndrome are aborted.