#356 Given 2 Weeks to Terminate Their Baby — They Chose Life | The Leopard Family
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Alisa Childers
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🗓️ 15 February 2026
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
When Jeff and Cat Leopard learned their daughter Adelyne had Trisomy 18, they were told she was “incompatible with life,” pressured to terminate, and given a countdown on a calendar. Instead, as Christians who believe every human being is made in the image of God, they chose life, and then fought for the medical care that would honor their daughter’s dignity. What followed was heartbreak, advocacy, hospital corridors, hard conversations… and an unexpected, stubborn hope.
You’ll hear the Leopards’ full journey from the cold, clinical appointment that offered only abortion or “comfort care,” to the physicians who finally said, “We’re going to do everything we can.” We also talk candidly about what Trisomy 18 is, how the “incompatible with life” label is often used, and why Christians must think clearly about personhood, human value, and the worldview assumptions driving modern bioethics. Jeff also shares how he teaches students to spot the cracks in naturalism, and why pro-life conviction isn’t just a political position—it’s a worldview lived out in real suffering, real love, and real courage.
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| 0:00.0 | But she's like, have a photographer there, take some pictures. |
| 0:03.2 | And it's like she may live a week. |
| 0:04.9 | She may live a month. |
| 0:06.6 | She was going to be born like December-ish. |
| 0:08.8 | Like she may not make it to Christmas. |
| 0:10.6 | You know, like she was giving us some reality. |
| 0:12.3 | But she also said, but we're going to do everything we can to get her there. |
| 0:16.9 | So that was the first time we felt hope from. |
| 0:20.2 | Yeah, the first time we felt hope from... Yeah, the first time. |
| 0:26.6 | Many of you may remember when in 2024, Joe Biden invited a woman named Kate Cox to join him at the State of the Union address to share her story. |
| 0:40.6 | And the way that her story was framed was that she had to flee her home state of Texas |
| 0:45.6 | where she would not have access to the abortion she supposedly needed, |
| 0:49.9 | and she had to go get that quote unquote emergency abortion in another state. |
| 0:55.2 | Now it turns out that her baby had been diagnosed with a rare condition called trisomy 18. |
| 1:01.3 | She was told this made the baby incompatible with life and that the only treatment for this would be abortion. |
| 1:07.3 | She was also told that it would endanger her future ability to bear children if she went |
| 1:12.4 | ahead with the pregnancy. So this was framed as her receiving life, saving care that she was denied in |
| 1:18.4 | Texas because of the overturn of Roe v. Wade. Well, today, I have a powerful conversation with a |
| 1:24.7 | family who received that same diagnosis but took a very different |
| 1:28.2 | path. In a moment, I'm going to introduce you to the leopards. When they learned they were pregnant |
| 1:33.1 | with their precious Adeline, they received that same diagnosis, trisomy 18. They were also told |
| 1:38.5 | that this made her incompatible with life, and they were advised to get an abortion. But because they're Christians, |
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