My friends wife is 2 months pregnant. she contracted chicken pox now and doctor's say that she had to abort the child. is it really needed.

Chicken pox : If a pregnant woman gets chicken pox during the first 20 weeks she runs a1-2 percent chance of encountering a problem. These problems can usually be picked up by ultra sound.After twenty weeks there is less of a problem.

Difficult issue: About 2% of those infants born to mothers with chickenpox during the first 20 wks of pregnancy will have the fetal varicella syndrome.The risk may be higher in the earlier weeks. The effects include mental deficiency with or without seizures, brain shrinkage, small heads, eye defects, limb and skin defects. This is a difficult position to be in for anyone, but these are the current facts.