Halina Pastuszko decided that she didn’t want any more children after giving birth to a third daughter in Poland.
But she learned at the age of 42, the same year that her first grandchild was born, that she was five months pregnant.
The pregnancy alarmed the physician, and he warned that the child might be born disabled because of Halina’s age. Poland lacked facilities to raise disabled children at the time.
The physician suggested an abortion and gave Halina the telephone number for a doctor…Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ann-en/~3/MsOxa30zCp0/