Posted on 10/12/2013 9:41:22 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Surgeons in Los Angeles have for the first time performed a life-saving procedure on a tiny fetus inside its mother’s womb after practicing on a grape.
Using a hair-fine wire, a miniature needle, a tiny balloon and a catheter, they successfully carried out the operation on the unborn child’s heart—which is about the size of a walnut.
It was a medical first for the surgical team at CHA Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center in Los Angeles, and according to the LA Times, it appears to have been a success. …
Practicing for such a critical and exacting procedure, remarkably, involved using a jelly mold to replicate the mother’s body and a single grape representing the fetal heart. …
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
As soon as the GOP caves, this kind of miraculous medical work will only be performed on the children of high-ranking party members...if anyone remembers how.
But, if they do try it, they’ll practice on healthy peasant babies because Obama might want that grape.
You may like this article.
You sound so cynical... and probably correct!
Funny the compartmentalization that libs go through when talking about babies in the womb, on the one hand the article talks about the fetus, ie non human then talks about the mother. News flash Haman beings can only be mothers to human children, not lumps of tissue, if a fetus is not human how can it have a mother.
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