Posted on 07/09/2022 6:49:17 AM PDT by Morgana
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — Tiffany Campbell never thought she would have an abortion.
“I was a staunch Republican, I would not even vote for a Democrat, straight party ticket,” Tiffany said. “But I also never thought I would need an abortion.”
In 2006, Tiffany and her then-husband Chris found out they were pregnant with their third child. Like her first two pregnancies, Tiffany was experiencing severe dehydration and vomiting and regularly went to the doctor for fluids and other treatments.
On one particular visit, Tiffany was informed she had a kidney infection and would need a stent and have to spend the night at the hospital. Before the procedure, a nurse performed an ultrasound and Tiffany found out she was pregnant with twins.
Her excitement was short-lived.
“And then the ultrasound tech got very quiet, went to the phone, and was whispering. I knew something was wrong,” Tiffany said.
That’s when a team of doctors at Sioux Valley Hospital, now known as Sanford Health, diagnosed her twins with Twin-to-Twin Transfusion Syndrome (TTTS). The Cincinnati Children’s Hospital says that this rare condition happens when identical twins share a placenta and the “abnormal blood vessel connections” cause an uneven blood flow between the fetuses.
Dr. Peter Van Eerden was an OB/GYN with Sioux Valley at the time and told KELOLAND News that TTTS can develop as early as 16 weeks and has a mortality rate up to 80%.
“Even 100% if left untreated for both babies,” Van Eerden said.
Without treatment, doctors in Sioux Falls told Tiffany that her pregnancy would end with the death of at least one of her twin boys, if not both.
(Excerpt) Read more at keloland.com ...
This is one even I have not heard of.
"Twin-to-Twin Transfusion Syndrome (TTTS)"
Children’s Hospital says that this rare condition happens when identical twins share a placenta and the “abnormal blood vessel connections” cause an uneven blood flow between the fetuses.
Who an tell us anything about it? No cure? Did she really have to chose abortion on one baby to save the other?
I can't imagine having to kill one baby to save another.
This is definitely a real syndrome. It is the first thing to check for on finding a twin pregnancy. The lie is that that nothing could be done to save the lives of the twins or if the one twin had a condition incompatible with life & the shunt was killing the other twin that the law would prevent treatment, even if that treatment ended the life of the incurably affected twin.
https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseases/twintotwin-transfusion-syndrome-ttts
Sophie’s Choice. Even so, this is another one of those rare situations that the pro-abortion crowd tries to use to justify all abortions. This is not an “I didn’t want to bother with birth control” scenario.
Of course they start with...”I was a staunch Republican”. Purely anecdotal. Because of this one lady, we’re supposed to support killing babies?! I don’t think so.
You know if it were me I’d do everything I could to save both babies. Even induce labor early as possible and have the babies in an incubator if that meant saving their life. I can’t kill one to save the other.
I can imagine this. If two babies share a single placenta, it’s very possible that it could not support adequate blood flow which includes nutrition and oxygen for two growing babies.
For twin to twin syndrome:
Laser fetoscopy is a treatment that can be done at up to 26 weeks gestation.
“Twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome can be a troubling diagnosis for a patient to receive, but the good news is that we offer a procedure that has very good results,” says Dr. Bahtiyar. If no action is taken, one or both twins will die in more than 80 percent of cases.
Proving the left lies.
https://www.yalemedicine.org/conditions/twin-to-twin-transfusion-syndrome
When I see the word “staunch” I stop reading as I know the thing is propaganda.
There is actually a current TV series that has characters that were affected by this syndrome. It’s called Black Bird.
She was against abortion ONLY because she was straight ballot republican? That’s idiocy.
Don’t trust in God’s providence, trust in mans’: he always gets it right. Man bats 000.
You are exactly correct and that is the standard treatment. I attached the Yale posting showing that there is treatment to save both babies. The article is innaccurate & misleading.
Laser fetoscopy (selective laser photocoagulation) is the preferred method of treatment for TTTS. Yale New Haven Hospital is one of only 30 to 40 hospitals in the United States offering the procedure. Laser fetoscopy can be safely done up until 26 weeks of gestation.
With laser fetoscopy, the physician makes a small incision in the mother’s abdomen and inserts a tiny instrument equipped with a laser, which burns the unequal blood vessel connections. Excessive amniotic fluid is then drained from the area around the recipient twin using a vacuum-assisted device.
The procedure, which only takes about 15 minutes, typically requires a one-night hospital stay and is significantly better in saving one or both babies compared to amnioreduction, which involves draining large volumes of amniotic fluid in hopes of slowing down TTTS.
“When I see the word “staunch” I stop reading as I know the thing is propaganda.”
I know this but I want the truth when it comes to the illness the baby had.
National policy should never be determined by anecdotes. Even when they’re true, which is always subject to question, they represent the most extreme cases that are on the fringe and not at all typical. None of us can live our lives based on exceptional circumstances. But these stories are mostly not true.
We see the same thing here in North Dakota's largest city and our liberal news media. Non stop stories about "OMG, look at what hardships women will face now that abortion is banned!".
Thank you Dr. Galt this was very educational. Fetal surgery certainly as come a long way. So glad to know both of Mrs. Campbells babies could have been saved. Sounds like to me she just did not want twins.
This is another of what appears to be a concerted effort by the pro-abortion crowd and federally funded professional Planned Parenthood types, to plant stories like these to show how abortion cannot be outlawed.
My two cents:
(1) Law should not be made based on hard cases.
(2) This reminds me what we used to get in high school classes when we were propagandized with “situation ethics.” It’s the old “lifeboat survivor” scenario. Movies were made about this (the most famous being with Tyrone Power, I believe called, “Lifeboat”). The dilemma: if you cannot save everyone after a shipwreck in a lifeboat, is it moral to choose who will live and who will die? If so, how do you choose? Who does the choosing?
(3) Traditional Christian morality was based on principles and their application. In this case, a choice between who would live and who would die would not be permitted. Either both would be saved or both would die.
(4) Is it more tragic for both to die than to make the choice to expedite the death of the other and let the other live? Should that power of choice over life and death be given to anyone in such a situation - especially a medical one? Because once you open that can of worms, the subsequent application of that policy (and its inevitable expansion of application) creates fertile ground for a tyranny I would rather not contemplate.
That is why I asked for the truth when I posted. I wanted to know. FReepers came through once again!
Thank you all.
Classic leftist tactic and right out of the Alinsky playbook. Take the most exceptional outlier case and use it as a hammer to forge policy for the remaining 99.9% of the country
This was 16 years ago. Was this procedure available then?
Assuming they have told us everything about this case (which I doubt) this is one of the 0.0001% of cases they trot out to justify abortion 100% of the time.
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