Gabriele Helms, a Canadian college professor, died of cancer on New Year’s Eve, after giving premature birth to her daughter:

In Canada is it routine for pregnant women diagnosed with cancer to abort, but Helms’ friends said that being a mother was her first priority….”She was in excruciating pain but she was still elated about her pregnancy. I saw her during her stay in the hospital and she was always putting her hand on her stomach because she could feel the baby by that time. In (Gabi’s) obituary, it says she chose her daughter over herself. She did that because she wanted the child so much.