Experience from high-income countries shows that overall mortality and disability from birth defects could be reduced by up to 70 percent if the recommendations in this report were broadly implemented.

I'm on disability. I'm on a fixed income, that's all I'd need right now!

We do everything we can to minimize mortality.

If mom can be as fit and well as possible at the time of conception, it reduces the risk of a birth defect.

Everyone has in their mind a picture of someone with a disability, and it comes from past experience. It is so much broader than that. For us to sit here and say what they can do would be just as complicated as saying what somebody without a disability can do.

It was almost like a second birth of that experience when it happened at Nevada. I think our kids responded to that.