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U.S. Hospital Refuses to Help Premature Twins Born Alive, Leaves Them to Die
LifeSite News ^ | 5/23/18 | Lisa Bourne

Posted on 05/23/2018 7:24:06 PM PDT by marshmallow

COLUMBUS, Ohio, May 23, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – Twin premature newborn boys died at an Ohio hospital last year while staff stood by refusing to give them medical assistance, a pro-life group is reporting, and the hospital classified the boys’ deaths as stillbirth.

Both boys were born alive at 22 weeks and 5 days gestational age at Riverside Methodist Hospital in Columbus, according to the report.

The first born, Emery, survived for 45 minutes. His younger brother, Elliot, lived for two and a half hours, even crying, and his mother, Amanda, begged for help to no avail.

Alarming footage released today by Created Equal shows both boys just after their births.

Amanda is shown in the video beseeching in the case of Emery, “You guys are going to save him, right? Promise me they’re going to save him.”

Amanda then says, “Look at him, please save him.”

Amanda is shown holding and speaking to her newborn boys in the video.

Later in the video, she tells Elliot, “Mommy tried, Mommy tried.”

(Excerpt) Read more at lifesitenews.com ...


TOPICS: Current Events; Moral Issues; Religion & Culture
KEYWORDS: healthcare; ohio
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1 posted on 05/23/2018 7:24:06 PM PDT by marshmallow
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To: marshmallow

No words.


2 posted on 05/23/2018 7:27:47 PM PDT by LittleBillyInfidel (This tagline has been formatted to fit the screen. Some content has been edited.)
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To: marshmallow

Get a good lawyer


3 posted on 05/23/2018 7:28:30 PM PDT by headstamp 2 (My "White Privilege" is my work ethic.)
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To: marshmallow

Isn’t liberalism grand?


4 posted on 05/23/2018 7:29:20 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (#NotARussianBot)
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To: marshmallow

Show the video to a jury


5 posted on 05/23/2018 7:29:25 PM PDT by Darteaus94025 (Can't have a Liberal without a Lie)
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To: marshmallow

Then charge them all with murder.


6 posted on 05/23/2018 7:29:26 PM PDT by chris37 ("I am everybody." -Mark Robinson)
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To: marshmallow
Ok..so I'm in the business...and let me say my wife and I had a baby at maybe 21-23 weeks...die.

Rule of thumb is less than 25 weeks...they are not going to make it.

So...I get all that. Boy do I get that..Thumbs are sometimes broken... I'm torn...

7 posted on 05/23/2018 7:32:26 PM PDT by Osage Orange (Whiskey Tango Foxtrot)
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To: marshmallow

If it had been babies of an illegal, four doctors an 3 nurses would
have worked overtime to save those babies.


8 posted on 05/23/2018 7:35:40 PM PDT by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small fee.)
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To: marshmallow

Please, please PLEASE sue their Obamaholes off.
Then sue again.
Then call some hit men.


9 posted on 05/23/2018 7:36:58 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: Osage Orange

Did doctors TRY to save your baby?


10 posted on 05/23/2018 7:37:41 PM PDT by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small fee.)
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To: Osage Orange

Can you translate that into the common vernacular? Try English—the language.


11 posted on 05/23/2018 7:38:47 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: marshmallow

I am guessing the mother did not have health insurance? People forget private Hospitals are a business. They survive by eking out a profit. In a socialized medicine situation, like in Canada the preemies might have had a better chance of help.


12 posted on 05/23/2018 7:38:55 PM PDT by entropy12 (1 Mil Daca is the shining object to hide 30 mil low quality LEGAL immigrants in last 25 years)
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To: marshmallow

we need a few serious murder prosecututions to put an end to these Nazi style baby killings!
where’s the DA?


13 posted on 05/23/2018 7:43:52 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicans aren't born, they're excreted." -Marcus Tillius Cicero (3 BCE))
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To: marshmallow

I looked it up. The survival rate for babies born at 22 weeks is from 0 to 10%. And those that do survive have a very high chance of being disabled.

So the math says let them die. And that’s probably what a court would rule. But there is a higher law, one that says all life is sacred. I would have let that higher law guide me if I had been there.

http://www.spensershope.org/chances_for_survival.htm


14 posted on 05/23/2018 7:45:59 PM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: marshmallow

I guess they need to rename Columbus, OH, then so as not to insult Christopher Columbus.


15 posted on 05/23/2018 7:46:15 PM PDT by Theodore R.
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To: Osage Orange

I was in the medical profession when I was younger. They have seen all the different ways things end up in this situation.

Like you said the twins really didn’t have a chance at life. They did the most humane thing anyone could do; they let them die so they didn’t suffer needlessly.

It sucks, it blows, it’s a gut punch for sure but they did the right thing. If we can know when the right time to put an animal down so it doesn’t suffer; why can’t we do the same thing for our loved ones? In this case they let nature take its course. Hopefully those souls will be born again into healthy little bodies.

This kind of thing is likely one of the hardest for those pediatric doctors to do. It’s not for the weak or faint of heart. The tiny humans can’t tell anyone what is bothering them. All they can do is cry and then only if not in a coma or forced sleep.


16 posted on 05/23/2018 7:50:02 PM PDT by Boomer (Leftism is the Moral Equivalent of the Plague - It Destroys Anyone it Infects)
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To: entropy12

Doesn’t stop them from providing health care to illegals. Or anyone else who comes in the door as an emergency case.

I believe the earliest case of a preemie surviving was just under 22 weeks.


17 posted on 05/23/2018 7:54:26 PM PDT by hopespringseternal
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To: marshmallow

Cold blooded murder. Why the hell would you ever trust your life to asshats in that hospital?!


18 posted on 05/23/2018 7:54:59 PM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: Boomer
How much trouble and expense would go into an oxygen tent and an IV ?

The attempt should have been made if for no other reason than mama was watching and praying.

19 posted on 05/23/2018 7:55:20 PM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true, I have no proof, but they're true)
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To: knarf

What was the mailman’s son Governors take on this?


20 posted on 05/23/2018 8:00:54 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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