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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

WISH-TV anchor Brooke Martin shared heartbreaking news Thursday, revealing her unborn daughter has been diagnosed with an extremely rare — and fatal — medical condition. Anencephaly, a neural tube ...

An Indiana mom and TV news anchor has shared details of the short life of her daughter, Emma Noelle, who was born last week with a rare and fatal birth defect. Brooke Martin gave birth to Emma Noelle ...