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.
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Taking a step back, observe the attempt to justify generalized liberalization of abortion based on a hard case, a rare medical condition. Because one might reasonably debate the ethics of abortion in this case, then any woman can sleep around and be free of the consequences of her actions by termination of her pregnancy.
The justices who gave us Roe v Wade were all “Staunch Republicans”.
This is just another straw for Murder Inc. to grasp in order to justify their immorality.
During my pregnancy with my third child, J, I was diagnosed with a two vessel umbilical cord, typically an indication of severe genetic abnormalities.
They pushed for me to terminate.
My family knew what it was like to raise a special needs child. My nephew was born with an underdeveloped cerebellum and was technology-dependent his entire short life. My brother’s medical debt was catastrophic. Yet, I saw the absolute pinnacle of love in the way both my brother and sister in law treated him, how valiantly they fought not just for him to live but to give him a life, and how he loved them unconditionally in return.
I looked at my husband and asked if he was ready to go bankrupt taking care of a special needs child. He replied we would sell it all if necessary; God had given us our son. It was their job to help him come into this world alive and we would take care of the rest.
He’s 16 now, an honor student in high school, kind, funny, physically fit, a good looking kid. Is he perfect? No, he has NCCAH, premature bone maturation, and is sterile. Did his challenges bankrupt us? We braced ourselves for a lifetime of challenges, struggling, and sacrifice because his SOUL was more important than the body that housed it. Instead, we thrived in the years since then and his issues cost us very little.
Trust God, every time.
Killing one son to save the other would be a better headline.
Exactly. The left uses every case in which some insane person goes on a shooting spree as the hammer to take guns from everyone. They take the outlier sad sack abortion case to make the murder of children in the womb acceptable in all cases even up to the moments after birth.
Without much work I found articles evaluating laser fetoscopy as early as 2005.
The point though is not whether this procedure was available then, there were other treatments such as selective removal of amniotic fluid even earlier, but the mischaracterization by the author of the article that the existence of twin twin transfusion syndrome means that there can be no law against abortion at any stage in pregnancy since selective termination is needed to save one twin.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19788973/
Incidence of complications in twin-twin transfusion syndrome after ...Study design: One hundred fifty-two cases of TTTS were treated with selective fetoscopic laser photocoagulation from 2005-2008.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2666485/
Between July 2006 and June 2008, 19 monochorionic diamniotic twin pregnancies complicated by severe TTTS (Quintero stages III and IV) underwent fetoscopic laser ...
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19281575/
Selective fetoscopic laser ablation in 100 consecutive pregnancies with severe twin-twin transfusion syndrome. Aust N Z J Obstet Gynaecol. 2009 Feb ...
I am so glad to hear about your family & your son. Stories like yours are the best antidote to the despair I often feel at the current state of America & the world. May God hold your family in the palm of his hand.,
Several months ago, abortion proponents were pushing for expanding abortions, and were feeling so confident, they were using the tactic of women boasting about their abortion. An escalation of personal selfishness and a denigration of the human life sacrificed. Now, they are reverting back to the coat hanger argument. Ignoring the 800,000 plus abortions each year, the overwhelming number of which are just a convenient (ghoulish) form of birth control, suddenly the narrative is back to the very rare medical issues, the less than 1 percent rape abortions, and stories of how killing a baby helped a women have a wonderful life, instead of having a baby that would have destroyed her life.
He does, every day.
May God bless you, too.
It’s real. I had identical twins. It’s a rare phenomenon. I figure there’s going to be exceptions for this like there is the life of the mother.
She’s no longer married to Chris — guess he couldn’t live with the guilt of killing one of his sons, as he was raised Catholic and taught abortion was wrong per the article.
Tiffany became a lobbyist for NARAL circa 2011 and was even arrested at the DC hearings for Kavanaugh in 2018. She’s also worked for the ACLU in SD.
And even more bizarrely, in 2017 she accused a GOP lawmaker in the state senate of inappropriate behavior toward her in 2011. She wanted to obstruct his appointment to the Board of Prisoners & Parolees. He denied the incident and said he’d never even set eyes on her!
Apparently she’s gone over to the dark side in many different ways. So it’s fair to say that little Tiffany is a liar when she claims to be a “staunch Republican.” 🤣
“Even so, this is another one of those rare situations that the pro-abortion crowd tries to use to justify all abortions.”
That’s exactly what’s happening. They come up with these one-in-ten-million stories and say, “See, see! We need to be able to kill any fetus we want because of stories like this!!”
She was worried that if she continued the pregnancy, one of the boys might die so she murdered him instead.
Makes perfect sense.
To a liberal.
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.
Yeah, something is fishy here.
A normal reaction to this situation is to try a procedure or two to save both babies. Then if it doesn’t work and the healthier baby starts to go downhill at the same time the unhealthy one slips even farther, take the unhealthy baby.
Maybe I misread the article, but I don’t a clear sense that much was tried or that doctors had a good reason for believing there was no sense trying.
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.
LOL. The back story is always so much more interesting. Thanks for the research & for sharing it.
So, her sad tale of being forced to abort one baby to save the other makes it okay her to help women that see babies as a “punishment” per Barry Obama, kill their “problem” and go out to a club that night?
Not buying it and not buying this story.
It looks like the exact frequency is unknown because sometimes it goes undiagnosed, but this high end estimate if 3 per 10,000, or a third of one percent.
I hate how pervasive lying has become in our society . Public officials, teachers, scientists, but most of all journalists lie to us or greatly distort the truth, literally all the time
https://www.smfm.org/publications/80-twin-twin-transfusion-syndrome
I have no problem with the procedure the woman had done, and I don’t think abortion laws should have a problem with it either. To me the exception to be allowed is no different than the one to save the life of the mother. In her case it was to save the life of one of her children.
If “Republicans” think her anguished choice was wrong and should be outlawed, then maybe she is right to think she’s no longer a Republican.
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