Would you end your pregnancy if the Dr told you something is wrong?

Question

Read something similar on fb, just had to ask here.
If the Dr said the chances of your baby living after birth are low due to something found in baby. Or if the baby will live a life if pain due to whatever condition he/she may have. Or for whatever reason the Dr gives you, you know your child will be in any sort of pain for the rest of their lives, would you terminate the pregnancy or not?

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I said yes because quality of life is so important to me.
I have a medical condition and it causes me daily pain, fatigue, stiffness amongst many many MANY other things (inflammation which causes aching eyeballs, liver problems, sore teeth sometimes, depression, anemia, etc) and it's only going to get worse as I get older. I can still function now but it's such a condition that you can apply for disability. My uncle died at 60 from complications of the illness, from heart failure after being in immense pain for decades. 
And honestly, it's not a quality of life I wish on anyone.

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I couldn't do it.  Life is still life to me and I'd want to give them the best shot I could even if it's just for a few hours.  Doctors aren't always correct; I've heard of several cases were the doctor said there was a major problem and the baby turned out perfectly healthy.  If I had aborted, I could never forgive myself.  But even if it was true and my baby would only survive a few hours, I'd still go ahead for the sake of organ donation.  There are plenty of newborns in desperate need of organ transplants and even if mine couldn't survive, I'd gladly do what I could to help save someone else's child.

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I have heard 100 stories of doctors saying that something could be wrong and then the baby was born and he was absolutely perfect. My friend's doctor tried to encourage an abortion when the doctor was fairly certain that there were signs of Down Syndrome. They were very against it and now they have a beautiful healthy baby. Doctor's can be wrong and even if they aren't, I would bust my ass to make sure that baby lived the best life for as long as he could. I just couldn't do it.

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That totally depends what the complications are. Me and my brother we’re both miracle, emergency c-section premies. My brother was literally 1lb and had to stay in hospital from the time he was born (September) to after Christmas sometime. (Idk he’s older than me). And I had major hip dysplasia and my parents were told I’m might not walk and we turned out fine. With the technology available these days and the fact that we both survived despite all of the odds against us, I would only decide to terminate if it was extremely high risk. And my mom was young when she had us too. (24 and 26), so it’s not always an age thing.

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I was put in a similar situation in early 2016. I found out that I was really sick a short time after I found out I was pregnant. I was given about a 20% chance for both me and the baby to make it through the entire pregnancy and if we both made it through, chances would be very high that my baby would have been severely disabled for the rest of it's life.
My husband wasn't ready to raise a child without me if I died, especially one that was disabled and it wasn't right to bring a child into a life that we knew would be painful and unfair from the very start so we terminated the pregnancy when I was 8 weeks along.
It was the hardest decision I have ever had to make.

Would you end your pregnancy if the Dr told you something is wrong?

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