Free Republic

An opinion piece by a retired neonatologist recently published in The Denver Post highlights some of the dangers of the extreme pro-abortion amendment the state’s voters will see on the ballot next week. In the piece, Dr. Elizabeth H. Thilo warns that Amendment 79 would allow abortion all the way up to birth, even though infants born in the late second and third trimesters are capable of surviving outside the womb — a dichotomy she invites readers to consider. “There is no question in my mind, or in the medical literature, that premature infants who are 23 weeks or 24...

Before Simon’s arrival my husband, Scott, and I lost six children through miscarriage. With each loss the sting of pain was greater. After we lost our daughter Faith in September 2008, we rid our home of most of our baby items.Losing a child is a pain so deep that is difficult for anyone to grasp. It can be like falling down a chasm that seems to have no bottom. The chasm is lined with thorn branches that scrape and pull at your skin when you remember what you have lost.When we learned we were expecting in early 2010, Scott and...

Interview With Neonatologist Carlo Bellieni SIENA, Italy, DEC. 23, 2004 (Zenit) - Far from offering or requesting prenatal diagnosis as a routine examination, people should use it with great care, warns a neonatologist. Dr. Carlo Bellieni of the Santa Maria alle Scotte Polyclinic explains in this interview the risks of using -- or abusing -- prenatal diagnosis. Q: What is prenatal diagnosis? Bellieni: It is the way of knowing the fetus' health conditions. It can be done in an invasive way -- by extracting fetal material: blood, chorionic villi, amniotic fluid -- or in a non-invasive way. In the latter...