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Radio host born with one arm and half her legs after a failed abortion

A woman who was born missing an arm and half her legs has revealed that her mother told her that her disabilities were due to her failed abortion.

The Canadian radio-host Charlie Rousseau, 25 grew up feeling like a ‘normal child’ and ‘didn’t realise she was disabled’ until she was a teenager.

Charlie found out from her mother that the reason she had disabilities was because of a ‘botched’ abortion her mother tried to have whilst she was pregnant with her.

The radio host told FEMAIL: “My mother decided to have an abortion but… it went wrong. My parents believed making a big deal of it would ruin my life because the story would be everywhere as I was growing up.”

“The doctor allegedly told my parents to keep the baby even though the abortion process wasn’t finished. They could’ve taken it further, they could’ve taken the hospital to court but we were living in a small town and my parents didn’t want to make a big deal”.

The 25-year-old said: “I never realised I had a disability until I was 16. My parents sent me to a normal school and I had normal friends. I had a big character so I fitted in fine”.

“It was only when I became interested in dating and fancying boys did I really accept my disability and that I was so different”.

Travelling the world

After travelling to Britain to teach, she decided to travel the world and experience other opportunities. Despite confessing she finds it difficult to carry her bags and experiences struggles at airports, she has since visited Mexico, Ibiza, Portugal and Australia.

“Charlie has said that now she’s older, and now she understands what happened, according to her mother, she may one day decide to look into it – but for now, she wants to continue with her dream to work and live remotely, and see the world”. 

Right To Life UK spokesperson Catherine Robinson said: “These cases of failed abortion show what really happens in an abortion. In most abortions, the main victim of abortion, the unborn baby, is never seen. In cases of failed abortion though, the person who would have been the victim of abortion is there for all of us to see.”

Dear reader,

You may be surprised to learn that our 24-week abortion time limit is out of line with the majority of European Union countries, where the most common time limit for abortion on demand or on broad social grounds is 12 weeks gestation.

The latest guidance from the British Association of Perinatal Medicine enables doctors to intervene to save premature babies from 22 weeks. The latest research indicates that a significant number of babies born at 22 weeks gestation can survive outside the womb, and this number increases with proactive perinatal care.

This leaves a real contradiction in British law. In one room of a hospital, doctors could be working to save a baby born alive at 23 weeks whilst, in another room of that same hospital, a doctor could perform an abortion that would end the life of a baby at the same age.

The majority of the British population support reducing the time limit. Polling has shown that 70% of British women favour a reduction in the time limit from 24 weeks to 20 weeks or below.

Please click the button below to sign the petition to the Prime Minister, asking him to do everything in his power to reduce the abortion time limit.