A British woman is praising God for her child after she fought doctors who wanted her to have an abortion.

Michelle Macaulay and her husband learned in late 2012 they were going to have a second baby.  At her 12-week scan, doctors said the baby had a genetic disorder and that she was unlikely to make it to her birth.

The doctors said Michelle needed to abort the baby.  They called the child “incompatible with life.”

“To be told by a consultant the baby was incompatible with life was just horrendous because, looking at that screen, there was a life already started,” she said. “It’s just an awful term to call anyone, let alone a baby growing inside of you.”

The baby was born at 36 weeks and has tested negative for a wide range of genetic diseases.  Baby Carla is now two years old and while she has struggles, she has beaten the odds doctors gave her.

“Carla’s not walking, but she started crawling and pulling herself up in November—-things we were told she would never be able to do,” Macaulay stated. “She will develop and then she might plateau for a long time. She can eat normal foods but she can’t feed herself. The physiotherapists are really confident that she will walk and they’ve always been quite positive.”

Pro-life groups are making an effort to inform mothers across the world that a doctor saying their child is “incompatible with life” is not a medical diagnosis.

“We have undertaken this global campaign because the phrase ‘incompatible with life’ is not a medical diagnosis: it misinforms parents, it pushes families towards abortion, and it denies those families a chance to spend time with their children, to make memories and to heal,” declared Every Life Counts spokesman Tracy Harkin.