Willow has OI, Type III, which is severe, but not fatal.Ĭharlotte, her mother, initiates a wrongful birth lawsuit against her best friend and obstetrician _ barely seeming to think about it before starting with it. Charlotte says that's why she initiated the lawsuit, to give Willow more opportunities than she would otherwise have in an ordinary family, struggling to get by. And, from what I could gather from the story, it would be almost impossible to diagnose it at 18 weeks.Īnd the lawsuit is basically saying to Willow _ who is six, and incredibly smart _ that Charlotte didn't want her, when clearly she loves her and in every other way fights as hard as she can for her. By the time Willow's OI is diagnosed, when Charlotte is 27 weeks pregnant, she won't even consider a late-term abortion. Except that Charlotte's a practicing Catholic, which is only one of the things in the book that really confused me. If the OI had been diagnosed when Charlotte had her 18-week ultrasound, she could have made the decision to have an abortion. The story made no sense to me.Ĭharlotte O'Keefe initiates a wrongful birth lawsuit against her obstetrician _ who is also her best friend _ when she discovers that Piper maybe, just maybe should have diagnosed her daughter Willow's condition earlier. Here's the thing, and I know I'm jumping around a lot. But I was really, really let down when it did happen.
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