I agree; this story seems so absurd that it is pretty unbelievable. The surgery for cleft palate is so simple, apparently, that American doctors regularly go to third-world countries to fix up kids who have this condition (and how did those kids manage to eat, eh?).
Like I said I did a report on this in Biology class back in college. Now this was a LONG time ago, but as I recall those women are able to feed the babies but only little bits of milk at at time like with a medicine dropper. It would take a while to feed the baby but it can be done.
If this story is true it just means either the doctors were afraid of being sued for not finding on the ultra sound or they really hate deformed kids.
I get frustrated when nameless doctors at nameless hospitals are cited. This hurts the pro life cause as much as anything. It makes others discount what we have to say.