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Tracy Jan

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Now: Deputy Health & Science Editor. Then: Race & Economy Reporter @WashingtonPost, @BostonGlobe national politics. [email protected]

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Deborah Dorbert is devoting the final days before her baby’s birth to planning the details of the infant’s death. She and her husband will swaddle the newborn in a warm blanket, show their love and weep hello even as they say goodbye.

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They have decided to have the fragile body cremated and are looking into ways of memorializing their second-born child. “We want something permanent.' Perhaps a glass figurine infused with ashes. Or an ornament bearing the imprint of a tiny finger.
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“Not an urn,” she said, cracking one of the rare smiles that break through her relentless tears. “We have a 4-year-old. Things happen.”
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Halfway through their planned and seemingly healthy pregnancy, a routine ultrasound revealed the fetus had devastating abnormalities, pitching the dazed couple into the uncharted landscape of Florida’s new abortion law. By FrancesSteadSellers
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