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It just breaks my heart thinking of all the babies that have died in pain during abortions.
My hope too. Let's not count on it though.
“That’s when I discovered that the babies were not getting anesthesia,” he recalled recently. Infants undergoing major surgery were receiving only a paralytic to keep them still.”
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I remember this vividly; when my then sister-in-law had her preterm infant at 24 weeks, I was shocked at the baby’s appearance after surgery. I asked the doctors if she had received anesthesia during her surgery, and the doctors told me the name of a choline-type agent (if I remember correctly). When I told them that this was not an anesthetic, then asked what ANESTHETIC was administered, they simply walked away.
The baby girl died after surgery, from renal failure. I often wondered if it was shock from the pain of surgery without anesthetic. When I related my anger to my mother about this atrocity, she begged me to never tell the mother that her child probably suffered horrible pain because of the idiocy of doctors who operated on her bowels without anesthetics...
I agreed, only because I believe that the only pain worse than a baby’s pain during major surgery would be her mother’s pain at knowing her child suffered so during her brief life.
That is gut-churningly awful. I feel like vomiting now.
It *is* interesting, and surprising that you found
in in the New York Times. I’m not going to subscribe
bc of this one article, though! Thanks for bringing it
to our attention.