Posted on 02/12/2005 7:13:32 PM PST by aculeus
A BABY survived at least three attempts to abort it from the womb and was born alive at 24 weeks old.
The boy was delivered in hospital after his 24- year-old mother changed her mind about wanting the child after feeling it move on the way home from an abortion clinic.
Although the clinic had told her an ultrasound scan had confirmed the child was dead, she went into labour that afternoon and the boy was born alive.
Now two years old and healthy, he is the first long-term abortion survivor to have been born so prematurely. His remarkable entrance into the world is documented in the Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology.
The mother had not realised she was going to have a baby until 22 weeks into the pregnancy and felt that she could not cope with a second child. She was given a series of abortion drugs over four days at a private clinic.
After birth the child was rushed to the hospital’s neonatal intensive care unit where he was on a ventilator for 7Å weeks. He fought off several life-threatening infections and suffered from severe lung disease for his first six months. He was allowed home after seven months of treatment.
Dr Paul Clarke, one of the report’s authors and the baby’s doctor at Hope hospital in Salford, Greater Manchester, said: “This mother went through extreme hardship waiting to see if her baby was going to make it. She was told to expect him to die so many times. I am full of admiration for her.”
The attempted abortions had been carried out at the British Pregnancy Advisory Service’s Blackdown clinic in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire.
Clarke reveals that paediatricians often intervene to save babies who have survived abortions.
He writes: “Late abortion raises serious practical, ethical and professional concerns. The dilemma of being telephoned about an infant born showing signs of life following termination of pregnancy is one that many paediatricians have faced. If viable, and resuscitated, those infants who survive may suffer significant illness.”
The paper calls for a review of late abortions at private clinics where there are no staff qualified to give emergency treatment if babies are born alive.
Ann Furedi, chief executive of the British Pregnancy Advisory Service, said: “It sounds highly unusual. Usually we would keep a woman at the clinic until she delivered the foetus. When women are having a late medical abortion they are normally attended in the clinic by nursing staff with specialist midwifery training.
“It would never be the case that a woman would be discharged with the expectation that she would deliver at home.”
Copyright 2005 Times Newspapers Ltd.
Send this to Hillary Clinton. She can write a letter to the boy telling him he shouldn't have been born if only she could "fix healthcare".
Mighty fine health case system they got over there.
care, that is.
BTTT!
Is this true? How many babies have survived?
The boy sounds like a fighter to me. Hope his mother named him Winston.
So in the UK they send women home with dead babies inside them(??)
I get the feeling the nursing staff would make sure there would be no survivor.
What world do I live in? Who could do such a thing in the first place? Hasn't anyone ever heard of adoption? Once again I ask, what world do I live in?
The body ejects the dead child just as it would in a natural miscarriage.
Abortion MURDERS a living child.
Well, isn't that big of them? < sarcasm >
"If viable, and resuscitated, those infants who survive may suffer significant illness.”
And there should be a heavy enough burden of guilt to go around for both mother and doctor abortion practitioner in knowing that the responsibility for the suffering of these little ones rests squarely on THEIR shoulders. Of course, instead of doing the right thing and turning away from this evil, the socialists will probably use it as "evidence" to justify terminating children after they are born.
I find it amazing that any society would sanction such a horrifying spectacle as the mother must witness in the aftermath of such an event.
***Somebody explain how you can get 20 years in a federal pen for terminating an Eagle fetus (messing with their eggs), but nothing for terminating a human fetus.***
Ohhh, EXCELLENT!
Wow. Every aspect of this is just incredible. How will she ever face that son?
This is one seriously mixed up mother. She goes for an abortion, changes her mind, feels the baby stirring, goes back again, gets the abortion drugs, goes home, delivers the baby, and rushes it to a hospital neonatal unit. Now, as far as I can understand this article, the baby is home again, now two years old, with the same mother who tried to abort him.
I sure hope she doesn't change her mind again.
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