‘The tiniest babies’: survival of babies born weighing less than 400g on the increase

LifeSiteNews ^ | 1/14/10 | Thaddeus Baklinski

[wagglebee]

This destroys the pro-abortion argument that second trimester babies cannot survive outside the womb.

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[Soothesayer]

Is it really on the increase? There is still the #1 leading cause of prenatal death: deadly viral agents called “leftists”

Until this pandemic disease is eradicated, medical science cannot make any progress whatsoever.

[JPG]

God gives life and the leftist/pro aborts want to destroy it. The lefties might want to practice up to be able to give an answer when ultimately the Big Guy asks them...WHY??

[AnAmericanMother]

My crusty old obstetrician told me years ago (when we were discussing a miscarriage I had before my firstborn) that we were going to see babies saved at earlier and earlier gestational age.

He also pointed out that many of these very early premies would have ongoing medical and learning problems because of the disruption of normal development inside the womb.

He was right on both counts, God rest his soul. (He also said that we shouldn't be making decisions about who to spare and who not to; do our best to save them all and let the chips fall where they may. And he did, he was a heroic doctor who died in harness - of a heart attack in the airport on the way to a medical conference. He gave his all for his babies.)

[The Good Doctor]

There is a cost-benefit ratio for everything. I'll probably be considered a genocidal maniac, but if it's costing enormous sums of money to save someone else's baby the benefit isn't worth the cost to me. Sorry, it isn't.

If a person wants to spare none of their own expense to save their child I understand completely. Just don't expect (or legislate) that everyone else feels the same about it.

I know the argument, "but that baby may have grown up and discovered a cure for cancer!". Yes. And that baby may also have grown up to be a criminal who mugs and murders me some day. Considering my experience with the demographics of ulta-low birthweight babies the latter scenario is more likely than the former.

[Jvette]

At every turn God shows us that a preborn life is fully alive and yet the abortionists and those who support their sinful culture of death refuse to see.

Three and four dimensional sonograms were not enough.

I pray that maybe such miracles will be.

[wagglebee]

There is a cost-benefit ratio for everything. I'll probably be considered a genocidal maniac, but if it's costing enormous sums of money to save someone else's baby the benefit isn't worth the cost to me. Sorry, it isn't.

Are you aware that the overwhelming number of people having babies have health insurance?

I know the argument, "but that baby may have grown up and discovered a cure for cancer!". Yes. And that baby may also have grown up to be a criminal who mugs and murders me some day.

I'm guessing "The Bell Curve" is one of your favorite books.

Considering my experience with the demographics of ulta-low birthweight babies the latter scenario is more likely than the former.

I presume your "experience" is that a child will turn out just like the parents? Do also you believe that Buck v. Bell was one of the Supreme Court's greatest rulings?

[DJ MacWoW]

Ahhhh. So all life is NOT precious to you. You judge the value of life on demographics. How.......interesting.

You do know that as you age your value will also be judged, right? You may be comfortable letting the left judge who's valuable but most are not.

[Gator113]

Good news, yet Obama and the likes of Pelosi and Reid will continue to support the murders of these little ones.

Obama wouldn’t want his daughters to “suffer” from such a “mistake.”

[RnMomof7]

You may be a doctor, but not a “good “one

Mar 10:18 And Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good? [there is] none good but one, [that is], God.

[MamaB]

Anyone remember reading KAREN and WITH LOVE FROM KAREN about Karen Killilea who was born weighing very little back about 1940? Her mom, Marie, started the CP group which led to bigger things. I always think of her when I read about tiny babies surviving.

[BykrBayb]

Good doctors do not pick and choose their patients based speculation about the patients’ future worth as human beings.

[netmilsmom]

>>Good doctors do not pick and choose their patients based speculation about the patients’ future worth as human beings.<<

Amen.

[The Good Doctor]

Some lives (like my loved ones) are more precious to me than others.

[The Good Doctor]

"I'm guessing "The Bell Curve" is one of your favorite books."

You found something inaccurate about "The Bell Curve"? Or do you just not like evidence that contradicts your view? (Statistically there are a lot more muggers than there are people who have cured cancer, so of course my assertion is correct, but I'm guessing you don't like statistics either.)

[DJ MacWoW]

Good side step but not good enough. You were judging the value of life based on demographics and your family wasn’t mentioned. What I said still stands.

[The Good Doctor]

To what do you think I was referring in my original post when I said, "to save someone else's baby"?

[DJ MacWoW]

You want yours saved but not someone else’s? How nice.