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I saw this movie a few times and saw it again (skipping a bit) last night since it is available on Hallmark On Demand.  

Various familiar faces, including an award winning actress there only present briefly.  It concerns a young woman (privileged, my you) decides to bring her pregnancy to term after finding out she would be seriously disabled. Meanwhile, a girl (actress all grown up now) with a mom with problems comes on to help her. Plus, a doctor has a long time thing for the mom, who by the way married his brother, who couldn't handle raising a disabled child.

So, a lot is going on.  As the link notes, you also have the woman's mother, who is a librarian, who is a major character here.  The father brought up that the child would have various problems if an abortion did not occur and the asshole has a point.  The mom asks the doctor if the child would suffer and well he doesn't answer, which is an answer.  One can debate the best choice here and focus on just her experience (again privileged, including costs of medical care apparently not a problem ... to be fair, maybe the book covered that ground more), but it isn't an easy choice.    

Anyway, it is well acted and again a lot going on, all handled pretty well.  Pretty deep stuff. I do wonder about the actress, I think I saw that sisters were used, who played the daughter.  Is she disabled or whatever word we should use in real life?  Hard to tell -- either way, the girls used were very good.