This Lovely Life

Vicki Forman gave birth to Evan and Ellie weighing just a pound at birth at twenty-three weeks' gestation. During the delivery she begged the doctors to let her babies go -- she knew all too well that at twenty-three weeks they could very well die and if they survived they would face a high risk of permanent disabilities. However California law demanded resuscitation. Her daughter died just four days later; her son survived and was indeed multiply disabled: blind nonverbal and dependent on a feeding tube.