Joe and Crystal Ossello braced themselves for perhaps only five minutes to meet their daughter, Harlow. They got 15½ hours together. Harlow had a neural tube defect called anencephaly, which means ...

A Kentucky mother of three was forced to travel hundreds of miles to Illinois to receive an abortion after her fetus was diagnosed with anencephaly, a serious birth defect where the skull doesn’t ...

The day before Mardi Gras, Brittany and Chris Vidrine got exciting news — Brittany was pregnant. They would be adding a third child to their family. But when she went in for a 16-week checkup, ...

GRETNA, La. — We often talk about about the lives of those who died recently. We look back at their legacies, and at the impact they had while alive. This story is about Luke. His life was short, but ...

FORSYTH, Ill (WAND) May is Anencephaly Awareness Month. Anencephaly is a rare disease in which a baby does not fully develop their skull before birth. Virtually all babies die before birth or within ...

A recent viral tweet on X (formerly known as Twitter) by a Nigerian mother shared a heartbreaking story. She had missed her antenatal check-ups because she was hustling for money, and only went for a ...

All Heather and Nick Maberry wanted to do was hold their dead baby, but strict Kentucky abortion laws meant they couldn’t. They were “furious” that the laws meant they never got to kiss or cuddle ...

When Stephanie Schoonover and her husband first got the gutwrenching news at their 12-week ultrasound that their baby daughter Grace would be born with anencephaly, a deadly birth defect when babies ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WJAR) — Baby Angela, who touched the world with her “miraculous journey with anencephaly,” has died. “It is with great sadness I share that Angela went to heaven Saturday, December ...

Texas lawmakers have carved out some exceptions to the state's abortion bans. A mother's emotional anguish isn't one of them. None of the laws allow pregnancies to be terminated in cases of fatal ...