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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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To: Leaning Right
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.

Which came first - the chicken or the egg? IOW - is the survival rate so low because the babies are so underdeveloped they can't survive or is it low because they make the assumption, as these doctors did, that the babies will die and don't even bother to try to save them?

41 posted on 05/23/2018 8:36:19 PM PDT by Shethink13 (there are 0 electoral votes in the state of denial)
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To: LittleBillyInfidel

Where did this concept of “free” hospitals come from?


42 posted on 05/23/2018 8:39:27 PM PDT by babygene (hMake America Great Again)
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To: EDINVA

no


43 posted on 05/23/2018 8:44:29 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: marshmallow

Murder.


44 posted on 05/23/2018 8:44:47 PM PDT by Reno89519 (No Amnesty! No Catch-and-Release! Just Say No to All Illegal Aliens! Arrest & Deport!)
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To: Chickensoup
No the babies would not have made it. No matter what ethnicity.

Do you have some kind of "God" complex? I repeat my question - is the survival rate so low because the babies are too underdeveloped or is it because, like YOU, it is assumed they won't survive so they don't even try. And, I might add, console a burning conscience by contending any such attempt would be torture.

45 posted on 05/23/2018 8:45:43 PM PDT by Shethink13 (there are 0 electoral votes in the state of denial)
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To: Darteaus94025

The worst thing about this is that they did not even try. That is unforgivable.


46 posted on 05/23/2018 8:48:08 PM PDT by Reno89519 (No Amnesty! No Catch-and-Release! Just Say No to All Illegal Aliens! Arrest & Deport!)
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To: Chickensoup

It always amazes me when people post what they want to believe without bothering to do a simple google search.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1380282/Earliest-surviving-premature-baby-goes-home-parents.html

https://www.cnn.com/2017/11/08/health/premature-baby-21-weeks-survivor-profile/index.html

I found quite a few instances of babies being normal after being born extremely early.


47 posted on 05/23/2018 8:53:00 PM PDT by hopespringseternal
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To: Tell It Right
#26: "It’s a Methodist hospital. They support abortion."

Well my, my, my. Wouldn't John and Charles Wesley be proud. NOT!


48 posted on 05/23/2018 8:53:11 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (MAGA in the mornin', MAGA in the evenin', MAGA at suppertime . . .)
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To: Da Coyote
#9: "Please, please PLEASE sue their Obamaholes off."

Sue not just the hospital. Personally sue each individual who was on duty at that time. Personally sue them for wrongful death.
 

49 posted on 05/23/2018 8:58:12 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (MAGA in the mornin', MAGA in the evenin', MAGA at suppertime . . .)
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To: tennmountainman
Oh..you have know idea what you are talking about and it's hurtful really....Our baby was still born..My wife had a detached placenta...

Are you normally an asshole?

50 posted on 05/23/2018 9:23:01 PM PDT by Osage Orange (Whiskey Tango Foxtrot)
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To: kosciusko51

Praise God Indeed!

I’m fairly far removed from when I used to keep up with this, but my understanding is that before the babies reach a certain size, equipment and physics are the main problems. Catheters have to be too small for meds or liquids to flow through, Breathing tubes small enough to fit can’t deliver volumes of oxygenated air needed.

It’s going to take major advances, not just sizing down of equipment to cross that 24-25 week threshold, I think.

Love,
O2


51 posted on 05/23/2018 9:24:18 PM PDT by omegatoo (You know you'll get your money's worth...become a monthly donor!)
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To: Osage Orange

My cousin’s twin boys were born at the same age as these guys were. They’re 12 now and both play hockey. It was a rough start, but they’re doing well.


52 posted on 05/23/2018 9:25:02 PM PDT by Bulwyf
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To: LittleBillyInfidel

Tie them over ant hills.


53 posted on 05/23/2018 9:29:18 PM PDT by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL!)
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To: marshmallow; All

http://baby2see.com/development/week25.html

They left it to the will of God.


54 posted on 05/23/2018 9:31:18 PM PDT by Fhios
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To: marshmallow

Get ropes.


55 posted on 05/23/2018 9:58:36 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: All

The is the inevitable result of the culture endorsing the murder of babies between conception and birth.


56 posted on 05/23/2018 10:38:30 PM PDT by Architect of Avalon
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To: Leaning Right
"So the math says let them die."

If we go by the math, a lot of people should die.

Who should die depends on who is in charge of the math.

57 posted on 05/23/2018 11:09:41 PM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (I told you so)
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To: FamiliarFace
Reincarnation, huh?

I don't know. Maybe. Do you know?

58 posted on 05/24/2018 12:47:22 AM PDT by Boomer (Leftism is the Moral Equivalent of the Plague - It Destroys Anyone it Infects)
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To: entropy12

Are you kidding. Do you remember the child in London that they would not let the parents take out of the country and just let him die!!!!


59 posted on 05/24/2018 3:40:14 AM PDT by ontap
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To: tennmountainman

I meant no offense.
I’m sorry for the loss of your child.


60 posted on 05/24/2018 4:05:08 AM PDT by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small fee.)
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