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<p>BY <em>Kristi Burton Brown</em></p>
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<p>ESPN airs a weekly show called “E:60.” This investigative hour-long show highlights stories – often personal, touching, and sometimes tragic ones – related to sports. On October 1, ESPN posted a segment of “E:60″ called &#8220;Perfect” to YouTube. “Perfect” is nothing less than a gripping, life-changing tale.</p>
<p>Heath White, a military man, marathon runner, and all-around success story, was suddenly faced with a choice. During his wife’s second pregnancy, Heath discovered that his new daughter would be born less than perfect, to his way of thinking. Heath admits that he pressured his wife to have an abortion, yet she bravely refused. <span class="post-teaser-more">&nbsp;<a href="http://heartsunitedforlife.com/?p=2030" title="Permanent Link: &#8230;the story of a dad who wanted to abort his Down syndrome daughter" rel="bookmark">Read more...</a> <i>(256 words, estimated 1:01  mins reading time)</i></span></p>

<div class="post-teaser-block">This is a preview of <q>&#8230;the story of a dad who wanted to abort his Down syndrome daughter</q>. <a href="http://heartsunitedforlife.com/?p=2030" title="Permanent Link: &#8230;the story of a dad who wanted to abort his Down syndrome daughter" rel="bookmark">Read the full post (256 words, estimated 1:01  mins reading time)</a></div>{"id":2030,"date":"2013-03-26T20:51:16","date_gmt":"2013-03-27T00:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heartsunitedforlife.com\/?p=2030"},"modified":"2013-08-15T18:24:47","modified_gmt":"2013-08-15T22:24:47","slug":"the-story-of-a-dad-who-wanted-to-abort-his-down-syndrome-daughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/heartsunitedforlife.com\/?p=2030","title":{"rendered":"&#8230;the story of a dad who wanted to abort his Down syndrome daughter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>BY\u00a0<em>Kristi Burton Brown<\/em><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>ESPN airs a weekly show called \u201cE:60.\u201d This investigative hour-long show highlights stories \u2013 often personal, touching, and sometimes tragic ones \u2013 related to sports. On October 1, ESPN posted\u00a0a segment\u00a0of \u201cE:60\u2033 called &#8220;Perfect\u201d to YouTube. \u201cPerfect\u201d is nothing less than a gripping, life-changing tale.<\/p>\n<p>Heath White, a military man, marathon runner, and all-around success story, was suddenly faced with a choice. During his wife\u2019s second pregnancy, Heath discovered that his new daughter would be born less than perfect, to his way of thinking. Heath admits that he pressured his wife to have an abortion, yet she bravely refused. <span class=\"post-teaser-more\">&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/heartsunitedforlife.com\/?p=2030\" title=\"Permanent Link: &#8230;the story of a dad who wanted to abort his Down syndrome daughter\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read more...<\/a> <i>(256 words, estimated 1:01  mins reading time)<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"post-teaser-block\">This is a preview of <q>&#8230;the story of a dad who wanted to abort his Down syndrome daughter<\/q>. <a href=\"http:\/\/heartsunitedforlife.com\/?p=2030\" title=\"Permanent Link: &#8230;the story of a dad who wanted to abort his Down syndrome daughter\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read the full post (256 words, estimated 1:01  mins reading time)<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2031,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>...the story of a dad who wanted to abort his Down syndrome daughter - Hearts United For Life<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/heartsunitedforlife.com\/?p=2030\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"...the story of a dad who wanted to abort his Down syndrome daughter - Hearts United For Life\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&nbsp; BY\u00a0Kristi Burton Brown ESPN airs a weekly show called \u201cE:60.\u201d This investigative hour-long show highlights stories \u2013 often personal, touching, and sometimes tragic ones \u2013 related to sports. 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