Financial and Emotional Burden on Survivors
The family is now dealing with escalating hospital costs, intensive care billing, and future special needs uncertainty — without having made any decisions themselves.
“I think every woman should have the right to make their own decision,” Newkirk said. “And if not, then their partner or their parents.”
She emphasized they still don’t know what they would have chosen. But what hurts most is not having the option.
“She’s pregnant with my grandson. But my grandson may be blind, may not be able to walk, wheelchair bound — we don’t know if he’ll live once she has him,” she said.
“It should have been left up to the family because, I’m in my fifties, her dad is in his fifties, so we’re gonna have the responsibility with her partner to raise her sons.”
“And I’m not saying that we would have chose to terminate her pregnancy, what I’m saying is we should have had a choice.”
