Every day, I wake up and thank the fine people of Colorado for the beauty and fullness of my life.
2000 miles away, in Boston, I was 35 weeks pregnant, knitting a turquoise sweater for my beloved baby, Laurel, when my doctors discovered profound malformations in her developing brain. Prognosis was a brief life of intense pain. Infant hospice was not legally available. Invasive, life-extending measures go against every instinct I have as a mother.
Choose one for your child: life or peace.
If Prop 115 passes, my gift of peace will become illegal and unavailable in Colorado, as it is in Massachusetts. Most of you will never feel the difference. Women like me and babies like mine are rare. But we are not singular. This happens, and when it happens, we must trust women and families to do best for our babies. Big government overreach can not replace a mother’s love. One day it could be your daughter. Your wife. Your sister. One day it could be you and your baby scrambling to flee a medicalized, invasive Hell on Earth. We few and unlucky rely on you, the many and generous. Our lives rest on your trust in a complicated, sad world.
Please share my story with your family and vote NO on Proposition 115 to honor my beloved baby Laurel.
Kate Carson
Boston, MA
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