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 second son, and an unexpected diagnosis sparked fears. Talking to The Epoch Times, Chad, an award-winning author and national speaker, shared how his son Eli’s birth transformed his outlook on love, God, and parenthood. “I had honored God all of my life, but I was never desperate for Him,” said Chad, the director of Catechetics in the Catholic Diocese of Lafayette. “A routine ultrasound for a second pregnancy turned into my greatest fear becoming my reality. I prayed for God to change the situation, instead, He used the situation to change me,” Chad said. “God …