The miracle of life, from the world's smallest surviving baby

American Thinker ^ | 05/29/2019 | Monica Showalter

[SeekAndFind]

When I was a little girl around the age of 7 in the late 1960s, the most exciting thing in the world was to persuade my parents to take me and my sisters to Sharp Hospital, up the road from where I lived in San Diego, to go see the newborn babies through the hospital window. In my little-kid mind, two things were very important - to see the giant statue of the stork carrying a baby at the hospital entrance, and to see the window with all the newborn babies and find the babies in the incubators, marveling at how tiny they were in their oversized diapers and how they needed those specialized warm glass bubbles.

I'm still here in San Diego and almost every day I walk to this same hospital to get exercise. The hokey stork is still there, moved to the parking lot roof probably due to public demand that they not get rid of it even as the hospital modernized. The old hospital is still there but it's built around with more modern edifices. The baby window, for obvious reasons, probably to prevent baby-snatching, is no longer there. Yet suddenly, the miraculousness of the tiny incubator babies in the window comes back to me with this wonderful NBC news item:

The world’s smallest surviving baby has been born in San Diego, according to hospital officials.

The baby girl weighed 8.6 ounces when she was delivered in December. She went home this month as a healthy, happy 5-pound infant.

Officials with Sharp Mary Birch Hospital announced the successful birth Wednesday. 

The baby girl was born at 23 weeks and 3 days, induced because she was not gaining weight in the womb after the mother developed preeclampsia. Her parents were advised their baby may not survive

[I want the USA back]

It is not a mass of cells. There is no difference between a baby-in-development and one outside of the womb. Giving the baby a name is not what makes it human. It is already human, from the moment of conception.

We now have laws in the USA that “allow” the murder of a human.

[YogicCowboy]

Yep. A tumor is a mass of cells; the mitotic proliferation that eventually emerges from the uterus is a differentiated genetic being of the same species as the female who bore it.