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.
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.
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!".
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.
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.
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.
Killing one son to save the other would be a better headline.
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.
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.” 🤣
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.
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.