FTA:
“’We didn’t have any family with us in Cincinnati, I remember calling my mom,” Tiffany said. “I told the doctors beforehand, before we met, you know, after the three days of testing, and I said, ‘I don’t want to see pictures, I don’t want to see the stats… Just tell me what, what procedure we can do.’”
A decision was made to perform a radio frequency abortion on one of the twins. The procedure is done in cases of TTTS in order to save the life of one of the babies, while terminating the life of the other by cutting off the supply to the baby’s umbilical cord.
After the procedure, Tiffany’s water broke, and steps were taken to stop her from going into labor. Overall, the couple spent ten days in Ohio before they made the drive home.
“While we were driving back home, I said to my husband at the time, I said, I think what we just had done will be banned,” Tiffany said.’”
So, it sounds as if a few doctors perhaps carefully considered what could be done in her situation and perhaps they decided nothing could be done to save both babies.
Or maybe no one wanted to try.
It’s not clear.
But I imagine there are a few scenarios where a twin just can’t be save and allowing the pregnancy to continue is risking not just the other twin but the mother.
But, in this case, it sounds as if this woman did a 180 and is now for abortion rather than just for making sure abortion bans have carefully carved out exceptions not just for life of the mother but life of the other fetus in the womb.
I would not think it would be too hard to write up abortion bans to include such things as three doctors needing to sign off on there being no alternative but to take the life of a fetus and subjecting the sign off to after action review by a panel of doctors.
I appreciate your thoughtful reply but it doesn’t fit the medicine.
There are stages of TwinTwin Transfusion syndrome and the pregnancies are followed to see if there is progression before considering any therapy.
I’d love to know what the three days of testing entailed because there is very limited testing only measuring of the size of the amniotic fluid pockets under routine ultrasound with a look at the fetal bladders to see if both are producing urine, 30min-1hr time max.
To my ears this is a very sketchy story and the story seems created to support the abortion movement.
I think before that was done they would have used the same technology to diminish the abnormal supply not directly terminate. First case of radio frequency abortion is from 2009 well after selective vessel elimination was popularized in 2005-8, with hundreds of these rare cases treated during those years. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2698202/
Fetal radio frequency intervention is only done at University centers by referral, only about 40 centers in USA have the technology at this time, less when this incident occurred. The suggestion by another poster that the author’s docs did not know about the potentially twin saving procedure is not possible on the facts. The more we learn about the author and the details furnished the more this appears to be a curated and manipulated tale told for a purpose.