Sextuplets : Gift From God
The parents of Ireland’s first set of sextuplets have said they were given the medical option to abort some of the foetuses. Nuala Conway, 26, of Dunamore, County Tyrone, gave birth to four girls and two boys 14 weeks early last month. She said 14 weeks into the pregnancy, doctors warned her and husband Austin of the risks of proceeding.
“But we knew without discussion what we both wanted. These babies are a wonderful gift from God,” she said. “Whatever God laid out for our lives, we were taking it,” she told the Sunday Express newspaper.
Abortions in Northern Ireland are still strictly limited and can go ahead only if it can be proven that the pregnancy would damage the physical or mental health of the woman. Mrs Conway’s babies were delivered by a team of 30 people at the Royal Jubilee Maternity Hospital in Belfast and all arrived within the space of five minutes.
