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  • Boy born with heart outside his body astonishes doctors: parents rejected abortion (now 3 y/o!)

    02/21/2012 2:24:08 PM PST · by NYer · 20 replies
    Life Site News ^ | February 21, 2012 | THADDEUS BAKLINSKI
    PENNSYLVANIA, February 21, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Ryan Marquiss, now three years old, was diagnosed with two rare heart conditions when his mother Leighann was twelve weeks pregnant. Although Leighann and Ryan’s father Henry were told by doctors that no child had survived these conditions and advised the parents to abort him, they chose instead to hope for the best and rejected abortion. Doctors said that Ryan had only half a heart, called hypoplastic right heart syndrome. This was compounded by ectopia cordis, where his heart protruded from his chest cavity, covered only by a thin membrane. “The doctors told...