[TXBubba]

Nearly half of all infants born extremely premature show no significant learning and physical disabilities by the time they reach school age, the largest such study has found.

[Eepsy]

NEWSFLASH! More than half of all infants born extremely premature have no significant learning and physical disabilities by the time they reach school age, the largest such study has found.

[BigSkyFreeper]

Medical advances have allowed doctors to save earlier and smaller babies.

BS. I was born 34 years ago. I was 2 months premature. I've had CP since birth and lost 80% of my hearing in both ears by the time I turned 6. Aside from that, I'm pretty damn healthy and fortunate to have lived a helluva lot longer than the doctors expected me to 34 years ago.

[Constitutionalist Conservative]

Nearly half of all infants born extremely premature have significant learning and physical disabilities by the time they reach school age, the largest such study has found.

<LeftSpeak>The compassionate thing would have been to smother them at birth.</LeftSpeak>

[VOA]

About Half of 'Miracle Babies' Have Disabilities by Age 6

Use extensive methods to deliver infants that wouldn't have survived a
generation ago...and the doctors are suprised that a fair percentage have
developmental problems?

You don't have to be a heartless Darwinist to expect that sort of outcome.

(And I'm NOT saying the best efforts shouldn't be made for infants at risk.
I'm just suprised that even some baby docs are suprised at this outcome.)

[mikegi]

This study supports the info I found after we had PPROM at 17w. Just getting to 24 weeks seemed like a miracle at that point. IIRC, the survival rate at 24w is around 50% and conventional wisdom is that the significant disability rate of survivors is equal to the survival rate.

[Coleus]

Eugenics Alert?

I wonder what the hundreds of other acrticles from the medical literature say about this topic?

What would one expect from the Washington post.

[Mr. Silverback]

Disabled or dead...pretty easy choice for me, I like being alive.

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[Salvation]

Angel in the Waters -- New Pro-Life book for children [Tissue Alert]

[aruanan]

About Half of 'Miracle Babies' Have Disabilities by Age 6

"Weed be beter of ded," defective "Miracle Babies" plead.