London, England, Jan 29, 2008 / 03:11 am
Lorraine Allard was four months pregnant when doctors discovered she had cancerous tumors in her liver. Her physicians recommended that she abort her child to save herself, but she valued her baby’s life more than her own.
According to the Daily Mail, the wife and mother of three was advised by doctors to abort the child so that she could immediately begin chemotherapy treatment. Instead, she courageously insisted on waiting long enough to give life to her unborn son. She told her husband Martyn, “If I am going to die, my baby is going to live.”
Martyn told the Daily Mail that it is believed the disease spread from bowel cancer that had been growing unnoticed for years. Because she was pregnant, the doctors said they were unable to do anything.
"She told them straight away they were not going to get rid of the baby. She'd have lost the will to fight.”