Posted on 02/17/2005 1:24:14 PM PST by siunevada
A BABY survived at least three attempts to abort it from the womb and was born alive at 24 weeks old. The boy was delivered in hospital after his 24- year-old mother changed her mind about wanting the child after feeling it move on the way home from an abortion clinic.
Although the clinic had told her an ultrasound scan had confirmed the child was dead, she went into labour that afternoon and the boy was born alive.
Now two years old and healthy, he is the first long-term abortion survivor to have been born so prematurely. His remarkable entrance into the world is documented in the Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology.
The mother had not realised she was going to have a baby until 22 weeks into the pregnancy and felt that she could not cope with a second child. She was given a series of abortion drugs over four days at a private clinic.
After birth the child was rushed to the hospital’s neonatal intensive care unit where he was on a ventilator for 7Å weeks. He fought off several life-threatening infections and suffered from severe lung disease for his first six months. He was allowed home after seven months of treatment.
Dr Paul Clarke, one of the report’s authors and the baby’s doctor at Hope hospital in Salford, Greater Manchester, said: “This mother went through extreme hardship waiting to see if her baby was going to make it. She was told to expect him to die so many times. I am full of admiration for her.”
The attempted abortions had been carried out at the British Pregnancy Advisory Service’s Blackdown clinic in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire.
Clarke reveals that paediatricians often intervene to save babies who have survived abortions.
He writes: “Late abortion raises serious practical, ethical and professional concerns. The dilemma of being telephoned about an infant born showing signs of life following termination of pregnancy is one that many paediatricians have faced. If viable, and resuscitated, those infants who survive may suffer significant illness.”
The paper calls for a review of late abortions at private clinics where there are no staff qualified to give emergency treatment if babies are born alive.
Ann Furedi, chief executive of the British Pregnancy Advisory Service, said: “It sounds highly unusual. Usually we would keep a woman at the clinic until she delivered the foetus. When women are having a late medical abortion they are normally attended in the clinic by nursing staff with specialist midwifery training.
“It would never be the case that a woman would be discharged with the expectation that she would deliver at home.”
His nickname will be 'Lucky'.
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Also posted here.
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I've got the chain, anybody know where we can find a millstone?
Sometimes I wonder if Journalism schools even teach reading anymore.
Though I am glad the baby was born and is OK, I feel so sorry for the child. He is bound to find out years from now that he was the survivor of 3 abortion attempts. How is the mother going to explain this to her son? How do you tell your child that you tried to KILL him 3 TIMES? My prayers for this child, because I'm sure he'll have anything but a normal rearing.
This child has the hand of God on him. He will be great in the sight of God and man when he grows to maturity.
There are no accidents with God.
***If he had been aborted even once, that means he didn't survive. This headline is similar to "Man is murdered and survives!" ***
My biggest peeve like that is "electrocution." I once heard a friend of mine talking about how he was electrocuted. I told him I could guarantee he had not been. He bet me $20. I accepted. He went and got his friend who witnessed the event. I went and got a dictionary. "Electrouction - Death by electrical shock." I told him he looked pretty alive to me, and if he was in fact still alive, he owed me $20. Easiest money I ever made! =P
Isn't she the one that tried three times to kill him?
Why doesn't anyone feel sorry for the BABY!???
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Nice. Bet your friend was PO'd afterwards, though. :)
haha, thank you! Let's just say he's very careful with his wording around me now, even though I would never try to pull that on him again!
Dang!
I searched that headline a couple of different ways and didn't get a hit. I kind of thought it had to have been posted already.
Re: "Why doesn't anyone feel sorry for the BABY!???"
Because it is ALL about the ADULTS orgasm. I'm still looking for a millstone.
I think Headlines 101 teaches that the less a headline has to do with the actual content of the story the better the headline is. Gotta grab those eyeballs.
When squeezed in between diversity studies and Marxism 101it's hard for the worn out would-be journalist to remember the reading class.
Shalom.
"I am full of admiration for her."
That comment about made me lose my lunch.
"I am full of admiration for her."
That comment about made me lose my lunch.
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