Saving Nate

“Are you sure you won’t consider a reduction?” The monitor beeps. Christin Rosa is propped up on pillows in a hospital maternity ward. She’s nearly nine months pregnant and about to give birth to twins, yet she knows that one of them likely won’t survive. She and her husband, Mauricio, have been advised to reduce . . . to terminate . . . to abort “Baby A”—the tiny boy inside her—but the Rosas have decided to fight for their son’s life. The last several months have felt like waiting for a roller