After a five year struggle with infertility, many heartbreaking disappointments, and with the help of IVF, Jessica Pritchett was finally pregnant. She and her husband awaited the arrival of their much-loved daughter, Izabella. But after multiple medical complications far outside of their control, and after all medical intervention failed, losing Izabella was inevitable and they were faced with the most horrible of choices: to carry the child further would result in Jessica’s death and her daughter’s too. The pregnancy was not far enough along for the infant to be viable outside the womb. Together with her husband and her doctors, Jessica made the agonizing choice to induce labor, knowing that her daughter would likely not survive it. This was grief upon grief for this couple that so wanted to be parents.

Now, in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision to disregard 50 years of legal precedent, and to overturn federal laws to protect a woman’s right to body autonomy and medical privacy, Jessica has discovered a new kind of grief. She’s been called vile, disgusting, selfish, and a murderer by those who claim to hold a “pro-life” stance. 

This is a story of hard choices and a family that has faced them, lived with them, and remained a loving family.