Reality television star Kailyn Lowry is speaking out about her most recent pregnancy, and how seeing an ultrasound made her realize abortion was not an acceptable option.

Lowry originally appeared on the MTV show “16 and Pregnant” in 2010, and now stars in the “Teen Mom 2” spinoff. Lowry got pregnant by her boyfriend and suffered a lack of support from her estranged family. She later had two more children, and recently discussed her surprise fourth pregnancy.

“If I’m being totally transparent here, I think that there was a time where I found out I was pregnant, again, and it wasn’t the ideal situation, and so I was like, is this the best decision for me?

A mother from Italy is sharing her story of faith and hope in the face of a high-risk pregnancy in which both her life and her baby girl’s life were on the line. Though doctors offered her an abortion, she refused, and now her little girl is home with her family after months in the hospital.

“I was proposed therapeutic abortion,” Jessica told Avvenire.it, “[…] but I immediately refused.” She added, “I would have accepted her with any problem.”

At 23 weeks, Jessica had to undergo an emergency C-section due to a placental abruption. Baby Nicol Vittoria was born on May 8, weighing just one pound and measuring about 11 inches.

Lauren Ashley had wished for twins, but when she and her husband learned they were expecting their first child, she never really expected it to happen. But shortly after her dream became a reality, doctors nearly shattered it when they diagnosed one of her twins with a life-threatening health issue… and offered to abort one or both twins immediately.

At eight and 11 weeks, Ashley experienced some bleeding and was terrified she would lose her babies. But ultrasounds revealed the babies were doing well. Because she was having twins, Ashley had an appointment scheduled with Maternal-Fetal Medicine, which deals with high-risk pregnancies.

DICKSON, Tenn. (CNS) — Mikey Schachle, who turned 5 in May, climbs onto a stump in the yard of his family’s home in Dickson.

He carefully takes stock of the short distance to the trampoline buried in the ground below him, then slowly steps off the stump into space and falls happily onto the trampoline as some of his 12 brothers and sisters surround him with smiles and hugs.

It’s a scene that would have been impossible for his parents, Dan and Michelle Schachle, to imagine five years ago when they sat in a doctor’s office to hear that their still unborn son had zero chance of living more than a few days or weeks.

Conjoined twins, who were attached at the head, have been successfully separated in a “landmark surgery,” according to a news release from UC Davis Children’s Hospital in Sacramento, where the surgery occurred.

Abigail and Micaela Bachinskiy are nine months old, and were diagnosed with the rare condition of craniopagus twins when their mother was just 11 weeks pregnant. Their parents, Liliya Miroshnik and Anatoliy Bachinskiy, have three sons, and were “shocked” to hear the diagnosis.

“It was very tough,” Miroshnik said. “I was just shocked. I couldn’t process. When I got home my husband said that everything will be good. We will get through it.