A wife, mother, and academic with spina bifida is sharing her insights on life’s trials and triumphs after 23 years in a marriage. Bethany Hoppe, 51, explained to The Epoch Times, “Socially, our western culture doesn’t automatically take into consideration that people with disabilities marry, so celebrating 23 years of marriage might get a double-take,…

A couple in Johannesburg defied their doctor’s advice to abort their baby after he was diagnosed with spina bifida. The mom gave birth to a healthy baby boy—who is now a rambunctious 5-year-old. Christal Dreyer, 40, and her husband Bernard, 40, were thrilled when she fell pregnant. When she was about 20 weeks into her…

A mom who risked her life to bear a child with spina bifida looks back on a road “riddled with uncertainty” and knows she made the right choice—in the face of pressure, and ridicule from doctors urging her to abort. Her beloved baby girl, now 1 year old, continues to defy the odds. Surviving heart…

Swapping fear for faith, a Louisiana couple cultivated the strength to choose life over termination after learning their unborn baby had spina bifida. The journey they embarked upon 12 years ago has changed many lives and validated the virtue of “self-sacrificial love.” In 2008, Chad and Ashley Judice, of Lafayette, Louisiana, were pregnant with their…

A 9-month-old American bulldog, who happens to have spina bifida and went viral on social media when his potential adopters didn’t show up, has found the perfect forever family. Nonprofit Peaches Bully Rescue of West Chester, Ohio, posted on Facebook when the puppy’s 40-minute journey to meet potential adopters on Jan. 23 ended in a huge…

When an expecting mom went for her 17-week pregnancy checkup by herself, she thought she would surprise her husband with the gender of their baby. However, after finding out she was expecting a girl, she was blindsided by an additional reveal: Her baby had spina bifida. Nickell Thomas, whose eldest child is a boy, recently shared…