<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[The Dish]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[http://dish.andrewsullivan.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[Andrew Sullivan]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://dish.andrewsullivan.com/author/sullydish/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[It&#8217;s So Personal: Not Knowing For&nbsp;Sure]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p>A reader writes:</p><div class="blockquote" style="margin-left: 40px;">When I was pregnant with my second child, this is what happened to me. I was in the middle of the <img alt="Views_of_a_Foetus_in_the_Womb_detail" class="at-xid-6a00d83451c45669e2011570b6e3e2970b " src="" style="margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px; width: 220px; height: 304px;" /> &quot;feel good&quot; sonogram at 21 weeks when the technician made a funny face and said that she was having difficulty getting some measurements.&#0160; Her supervisor came in and took over, after asking me whether I had any other children and whether they were normal.&#0160; And then I spoke with the radiologist, who was blunt and dour, and helped me get an immediate referral to Children&#39;s Hospital, where, several specialized sonograms later, we got as grim a verdict as I could possibly have imagined:&#0160; a severe brain defect, a severe heart defect, other highly unusual but not easily interpreted &quot;signs&quot; of impairment, including structural or neurological deficits associated with swallowing and other motor functions.&#0160; It all pointed to chromosomal anomaly, but, too bad for me, it wasn&#39;t possible to get definitive diagnosis in the time frame I had to make up my mind to obtain a legal termination. <br /><br />My choices were to do nothing, undergo termination with less than definitive diagnosis, or wait for the definitive diagnosis, and then go to New York or Colorado, or, I guess, Kansas.<br /></div><br />]]></html></oembed>