{"id":83348,"date":"2026-06-05T08:10:45","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T12:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=83348"},"modified":"2026-06-05T08:10:45","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T12:10:45","slug":"youtuber-and-wife-announce-pregnancy-termination-following-down-syndrome-diagnosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/youtuber-and-wife-announce-pregnancy-termination-following-down-syndrome-diagnosis\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTuber and Wife Announce Pregnancy Termination Following Down Syndrome Diagnosis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From\u00a0 <em>My Christian Daily:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/mychristiandaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/jesse-and-ashley-ridgeway.png\" alt=\"jesse and ashley ridgeway\" width=\"251\" height=\"249\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A popular YouTuber and his wife are facing backlash after announcing online that they are terminating their pregnancy due to a Down syndrome diagnosis.<\/p>\n<p>Jesse Ridgway, known online as McJuggerNuggets, has sparked widespread debate after revealing that he and his wife chose to terminate a pregnancy following a prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome.\u00a0Ridgway, 33, who has more than four million subscribers on YouTube, has describing the decision as one of the most difficult experiences of his life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From\u00a0 My Christian Daily: A popular YouTuber and his wife are facing backlash after announcing online that they are terminating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-83348","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83348"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83349,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83348\/revisions\/83349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}