Posted on 11/26/2013 11:27:24 AM PST by Morgana
Doctors told Liane and Iain Stooke that their baby Miley was brain damaged, after the prospective parents of anew baby had an ultrasound scan. The physicians at Frenchay Hospital suggested that they have an abortion when they said the scan showed Miley would be severely brain-damaged.
The couple agonized over the decision and decided to give their little girl a chance at life and their instinct paid off. Miley was born perfectly healthy a shock to them after the doctors assurance she would have physical problems and that the imaging and diagnosis had been wrong.
Liane Stooke, 38, tells the London Daily Mail newspaper she is glad her motherly instinct proved doctors wrong. Stooke said: We were told Miley was probably severely brain damaged and wouldnt be able to communicate with or recognize us.
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The doctors said she might never walk, talk, or recognise our faces, said Mrs Stooke, a bank administrator. It was also possible shed be physically and facially deformed. There were a lot of unknowns.
Although Mrs Stooke was, at 30 weeks pregnant, beyond the normal limit for abortion, doctors advised termination as an option because holoprosencephaly would prevent the child from enjoying a meaningful quality of life.
Holoprosencephaly is a condition in which the front part of the brain of an embryo fails to form two hemispheres.
The condition varies in severity but about 80 per cent of children with holoprosencephaly have facial abnormalities.
The doctor said it wasnt too late if we wanted to abort the baby he made it sound almost as if there was no other option, said Mrs Stooke. I just couldnt let go of my child, but I also had to think of the babys quality of life. My instinct was that if the child would one day be capable of recognising us and of knowing who we are, we couldnt go through with it.CLICK LIKE IF YOURE PRO-LIFE!
We were told there was still a very slim chance that the baby would recognise us. We exchanged a look and both knew instantly that we couldnt agree to the termination.
The couple braced themselves and Mrs Stooke delivered her daughter by Caesarean section in October 2011.
After the birth, the couple, from Bristol, were amazed to discover that, far from being physically deformed, their daughter was perfectly well.
And now her name should be “tongue”.
What was that recent story about the hard-working chemist-immigrant in MA who faked lab results... Annie Dookhan.
How many more never get caught, especially if they aren’t even responsible for criminal cases, just for test results on “old people”?
I’ve noticed the marked increase in the number of ethical lines that are crossed daily without any hestitation. Deceit and abuse is rampant under the cover of “fine print”. Can’t even go to a grocery store without being perpetually vexed by changing prices, product sizes, multiple packaging options all mixed together, etc.
In this climate of corruption and intentional confusion, fake lab tests will find their niche. And as you highlighted, no second opinions allowed. Retesting is wasteful and expensive. Be marked as a paranoid just for asking.
Doctors have been sued on the other end of the scale for not detecting birth defects in time for a legal abortion.
Yeah, just wait until nationalized healthcare kicks in.
If you don’t follow recommendations, the child will not be eligible for healthcare.
Kickbacks from Planned Parenthood? There are enough stories of doctors cheating Medicare for millions, so it is not beyond comprehension to suspect these charlatans.
Probably not. One usually needs to be in the US rather than England.
I should have added that few would catch on to fake results that come back “normal”, especially if in the context of a routine annual physical promised as an Obamacare human right.
By the time a once non-life threatening condition or illness advances and manifests serious, obvious symptoms, oops too late to treat aggressively, but here’s a pain pill.
If they start sending old peoples tests to a different lab that everyone else, lookout.
I’m surprised they didn’t force the abortion.
Don’t give her ideas!
I think this happens often. When one of my daughters was pregnant with her first child, the doctor told her that it was probably a Downs Syndrome child, so she should abort it.
She decided she wanted the child even if it did have Downs Syndrome. That was her first son, and fortunately there was no Downs Syndrome.
When Obamacare fully kicks in, they will pay for an abortion but not childbirth if the doctor makes a diagnosis like this, even if the doctor is wrong.
Time to file Attempted Murder charges against those doctors.
Baby Miley
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