WATCH: Five families describe the pressure to abort after a prenatal diagnosis

A new video compilation from Live Action exposes the intense pressure medical professionals often put on parents to abort their children or let them die following a diagnosis.

Key Takeaways:

• Five families share their stories of pressure to abort their children or let their children die following a prenatal diagnosis or a medical complication.

• Each family refused to intentionally kill their babies and shared that regardless of any challenges that they have faced, their lives are valuable and worth living.

The Details:

The video features five families, each sharing their story of facing pressure to abort their babies and why they chose life.

5 Doctors Pressured Parents To Abort. Look At Their Kids Now

Baby Sly

Pro-life speaker and author Leah Darrow (formerly known for her appearances on "America's Next Top Model") shared more of her son Sly's story, detailing that while she battled a sepsis infection during pregnancy, medical professionals told her that if baby Sly had to be delivered, they could just let him die. They told her there were many "things wrong" with her son.

Darrow said:

"There was an option to not intervene for Sly. There was an option to let him die, to let him pass. That sounds better, doesn't it? But it's the same thing.

I remember she sat on my bedside and explained to me what they had seen on the scans. And she said, 'If you want to choose to not intervene, you can, just let us know. And that's an option you can take.'

I remember just kind of being stunned by the process of that question, and I remember looking at her immediately [and saying], 'Intervene, intervene, save my child. You need to hear it from my mouth, if the choice is me or my child, you save my child.'"

When Sly's heart rate dropped at 22 weeks, Darrow was taken for an emergency C-section. She told the nurse she wanted her to ensure that if Sly was dying, he would not die alone and begged her to hold him as he died. The nurse promised her she would.

But Sly survived. He was intubated after birth and almost died multiple times, but today he is thriving at home with his family and continues to fight.

"Our potential doesn't begin at a certain age. It's been given to us. And that potential is for good," said Darrow. "And no matter how long Sly lives, I will always defend his life and protect it and make sure that it is a life that is worthy of his calling."

Baby Macrina

When Erin was pregnant with her fifth baby, Macrina, she went into early labor and faced a life-threatening situation. She was 19 weeks pregnant when she collapsed and was taken to a hospital in Denver, where a massive blood clot was found in her uterus.

Her husband Kyle explained, "We had the first conversation with the doctor who said the safest thing would be to, as she said, 'Conduct a procedure to reduce the risk to the mother.'"

Erin added, "Do you mean an abortion? And she said, 'Yes.' And we told her we can't do that."

But the doctors didn't want to take no for an answer. "Four different times, the doctors offered a 'procedure,' 'a safest thing to not be pregnant,' and 'proactive choice;' never did they lead with, 'What we're offering you is an abortion,'" said Kyle.

After refusing abortion, doctors said that if Erin could get to 21 weeks, there was a chance that Macrina could survive. The goal was to prevent labor and dangerous hemorrhaging for as long as possible.

But even then, Kyle explained that the neonatologist offered to give their baby no intervention at birth (including withholding nutrition and hydration), or all of the interventions (including providing her with nutrition and hydration).

Erin made it to 30 weeks before Macrina was delivered, and today Erin said Macrina is "the peak of health."

Baby Brianna

Phil and Elisabeth Scott shared the story of their daughter Brianna, who was diagnosed with Trisomy 18.

"We Googled it and we were devastated because a lot of the information out there is very negative. They say that it's life-ending. It's not compatible with life. We were told that she was going to live in a vegetative state, and we felt defeated instantly," said Phil.

Elizabeth explained, "They said, if you are interested in terminating, we need to do it quick because she [was] about, I think about 24 weeks at that time. There was no question for Phil and I whether or not termination was on the table because it wasn't."

She said doctors told them, "... If you want to see her alive, if you want a chance to hold her and spend a little time with her, if you want her to be able to meet your children and your family, we should probably go ahead and deliver early."

Briana was delivered at 34 weeks, and her family was prepared to say goodbye. But then the seemingly impossible happened — Brianna continued to live.

She was intubated so she could breathe, she underwent heart surgery, she had a surgery to connect her esophagus to her stomach, she had a G-tube placed, and she had a tracheostomy. And she's home with her family, including her four sisters.

"She's got the best quality of life that she could ever hope for because she is loved," said Phil.

READ: New AAP guidelines affirm Trisomy 13 and 18 are no longer ‘incompatible with life’

Baby Emersyn

Courtney Baker explained that at an appointment, the nurse brought her tissues and told her that her baby had Trisomy 21, Down syndrome.

"I just remember looking at those Kleenexes thinking I'm not going to cry. I'm not going to let them think that this is going to destroy me because it will not. And the doctor said, 'We really want you to go see a specialist to discuss your options.' And I said, 'I don't know what you mean by options, but if you mean abortion, there's no discussing that.'"

Baker and her husband, Matt, knew they were not going to have an abortion, but Baker went into a depression and stayed on her couch for weeks. "I felt like my life was over," she said.

Doctors continued to pressure them to abort their daughter, whom they had already named Emersyn. At every appointment, the doctor added more diagnoses, including that Emersyn had club feet.

But as soon as she held her daughter, all of Baker's fears slipped away. "I remember thinking this baby is so easy to love... I knew everything was going to be okay.

She added that "the proof that people are much more than their diagnosis is my daughter. My Emersyn is so much more than we were told she was going to be, more than my highest expectations, more than my greatest dreams."

Rachel Mary

When her mother was pregnant with her, Rachel Mary was diagnosed with a chromosomal abnormality that doctors assumed to be Trisomy 18. They told her parents that Rachel would be blind, deaf, and have cerebral palsy. Three doctors suggested that they have an abortion.

But Rachel Mary was born without those abnormalities.

"The day that I found out that three doctors wanted me dead was heart-wrenching," said Rachel Mary, who is now an adult. "To think that people wouldn't value my life, wouldn't value the lives of hundreds of children, just because of our location."

Rachel Mary ultimately decided to write to each of those doctors to tell them about her life and how wrong it was of them to suggest she be aborted. Two of them responded, telling her how happy they were that she was alive.

The Bottom Line:

A diagnosis is not a reason to kill someone. Just as a born child should not be killed following a difficult diagnosis, neither should a preborn child. Every life is worth living and protecting.