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Boy is Aborted 3 Times and Lives
The Times (UK) ^ | 1/14/05 | Lois Rogers and Sarah-Kate Templeton

Posted on 02/14/2005 3:50:53 PM PST by marshmallow

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.”


TOPICS: Culture/Society; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: abortion; abortionlist; abortionsurvivor
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Clarke reveals that paediatricians often intervene to save babies who have survived abortions.

You mean they don't deliver the coup de gras? What are they, physicians or something?

There are so many "you gotta be kiddings" and "what the *#!!s" in this piece, it's hard to know where to start.

God bless the little fighter who wanted to live and wouldn't lie down and die.

1 posted on 02/14/2005 3:50:54 PM PST by marshmallow
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To: marshmallow

That's gotta be rough on the mother having an unwanted kid.


2 posted on 02/14/2005 3:52:15 PM PST by G32
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To: marshmallow

Sounds to me like we have a "trifecta" here..a medical malpractice suit, a criminal indictment, and a miracle..


3 posted on 02/14/2005 3:52:54 PM PST by ken5050 ("Joe Biden is the dumbest person in the Senate"......the Great One, Mark Levin)
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To: marshmallow
“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.”

I'm a little confused here. Was the hardship that the baby might live or that it might die?

4 posted on 02/14/2005 3:54:16 PM PST by nosofar
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To: marshmallow; cpforlife.org; Coleus; TexasCowboy; Polycarp IV; Mr. Silverback; cgk


5 posted on 02/14/2005 3:54:18 PM PST by farmfriend ( Congratulations. You are everything we've come to expect from years of government training.)
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To: marshmallow

"She was told to expect him to die so many times. I am full of admiration for her.”

...I'm not.


6 posted on 02/14/2005 3:54:29 PM PST by Flightdeck (Liberals see Saddam's mass graves as half full. I prefer to see them as half empty.)
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“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.”

Huh?

7 posted on 02/14/2005 3:55:03 PM PST by DTogo (U.S. out of the U.N. & U.N out of the U.S.)
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To: mhking

This deserves one of your pings for sure buddy.


8 posted on 02/14/2005 3:56:43 PM PST by b4its2late (If you look like your passport picture, you probably need the trip.)
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To: G32

It's gotta be rougher on the baby since someone attempted to murder him!


9 posted on 02/14/2005 3:56:57 PM PST by Free2BeMe
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To: G32

Hey , give her a break.

She said she was having a hard time "coping" with the pregnancy.

Rape, incest, life of the mother and "cope-ablility"- all the necessary exceptions.


10 posted on 02/14/2005 3:57:12 PM PST by KidGlock (W-1)
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To: marshmallow

They kind of work on the same principle of slaughterhouses sparing the cow that jumps a fence and runs around town. By the time they catch it, somebody cares about it and wants to help it. Too bad nobody cared about this little guy in the womb


11 posted on 02/14/2005 3:57:49 PM PST by Toto_for_breakfast
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To: Flightdeck

"I'm not."

Ditto. This woman repeatedly tried to murder the child.


12 posted on 02/14/2005 3:58:19 PM PST by Tarpaulin (Look it up.)
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To: marshmallow

Thanks be to God for medical incompetence!


13 posted on 02/14/2005 3:59:54 PM PST by JimRed (Investigate, overturn and prosecute vote fraud in the State of Washington !)
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To: marshmallow
Boy is Aborted 3 Times and Lives

Lois Rogers and Sarah-Kate Templeton (the authors) need to get an education.

The boy was not aborted. He survived 3 abortion attempts. The correct title should read:

Baby Boy survives 3 Abortion Attempts

Is this a serious paper or a tabloid? Sorry for my rant all--sometimes it gets the best of me. Rant over.

14 posted on 02/14/2005 4:03:50 PM PST by Protect the Bill of Rights
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To: marshmallow

Amazing story. Thanks.


15 posted on 02/14/2005 4:04:52 PM PST by Desdemona
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To: JimRed

They sending the baby home with its mother??????
God help us all!


16 posted on 02/14/2005 4:05:36 PM PST by floridavoter2
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To: Protect the Bill of Rights
The Times is what the Brits like to call a "quality" daily. It was not a tabloid last time I was in the UK but I seem to recall reading a report recently that said it was changing to the tabloid format.

Perhaps one of our English members will confirm or deny.

17 posted on 02/14/2005 4:06:49 PM PST by marshmallow
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To: marshmallow

That's gotta be one seriously pissed off baby!


18 posted on 02/14/2005 4:07:02 PM PST by Still Thinking (Disregard the law of unintended consequences at your own risk.)
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To: marshmallow

This kid is going to have an interesting relationship with his mother growing up. "I love my baby so much except that I tried to kill him three times."


19 posted on 02/14/2005 4:08:18 PM PST by CaptainAwesome2
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To: marshmallow

Better name him Haysoos.


20 posted on 02/14/2005 4:09:01 PM PST by DainBramage
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