Posted on 11/26/2013 11:27:24 AM PST by Morgana
Doctors told Liane and Iain Stooke that their baby Miley was brain damaged, after the prospective parents of anew baby had an ultrasound scan. The physicians at Frenchay Hospital suggested that they have an abortion when they said the scan showed Miley would be severely brain-damaged.
The couple agonized over the decision and decided to give their little girl a chance at life — and their instinct paid off. Miley was born perfectly healthy — a shock to them after the doctors’ assurance she would have physical problems and that the imaging and diagnosis had been wrong.
Liane Stooke, 38, tells the London Daily Mail newspaper she is glad her motherly instinct proved doctors wrong. Stooke said: ‘We were told Miley was probably severely brain damaged and wouldn’t be able to communicate with or recognize us.
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‘The doctors said she might never walk, talk, or recognise our faces,’ said Mrs Stooke, a bank administrator. ‘It was also possible she’d be physically and facially deformed. There were a lot of unknowns.’
Although Mrs Stooke was, at 30 weeks pregnant, beyond the normal limit for abortion, doctors advised termination as an option because holoprosencephaly would prevent the child from enjoying a meaningful quality of life.
Holoprosencephaly is a condition in which the front part of the brain of an embryo fails to form two hemispheres.
The condition varies in severity but about 80 per cent of children with holoprosencephaly have facial abnormalities.
‘The doctor said it wasn’t too late if we wanted to abort the baby – he made it sound almost as if there was no other option,’ said Mrs Stooke. I just couldn’t let go of my child, but I also had to think of the baby’s quality of life. ‘My instinct was that if the child would one day be capable of recognising us and of knowing who we are, we couldn’t go through with it.CLICK LIKE IF YOU’RE PRO-LIFE!
‘We were told there was still a very slim chance that the baby would recognise us. We exchanged a look and both knew instantly that we couldn’t agree to the termination.’
The couple braced themselves and Mrs Stooke delivered her daughter by Caesarean section in October 2011.
After the birth, the couple, from Bristol, were amazed to discover that, far from being physically deformed, their daughter was perfectly well.
Prenatal death panels.
They named the baby Miley?
That is child abuse. :p
They should sue the doctor for putting them through unneccessary anxiety and stress. Perhaps a couple of lawsuits would restrain doctors from making these misdiagnoses, which are all too frequent.
Bet it don’t happen..national healthcare and all..right governor
they did it to me twice. once.PP and once a Dr.
their names are.christopher age 23. amanda age.27.
Malpractice or murder attempt.
God is in charge, not the doctor.
Unborn Baby body parts are priced high. There’s income to be made on those lumps of tissue. Every donation is appreciated ... if they can persuade you to donate.
They should sue the parents for naming the baby Miley! Where did that dumb name come from anyway?!
Time to start publicizing the names of these evil quacks (so-called doctors). There needs to be blowback.
Notice this gets no mention in the Regimedia.
Did Miley suffer from Holoprosencephaly without any external physical symptoms? The article doesn't make it clear if the diagnosis was completely wrong, or if she is part of the 20% without facial abnormalities but still has a developmental problem with her brain.
Pre-natal prevention of post-natal lawsuit.
I often wonder if tests get mixed up “somehow” and noone intends to verify the results, just to push the death panels as an only option.
In another delivery room, was a child with this condition born to the shock of her parents and doctors? Perhaps not, if one scan can be reused to pressure several expectant parents to abort.
I think false tests are going to be the MO of any Obamacare “care”. What patient is going to be able to actually challenge the veracity of lab tests, when the labs are all run by Obama-approved rats? These people are capable of making up whatever-they-want to further their agenda.
you are sooo right. i found out later that research orgs including universities.and hospitals were “renting space “ at PP. in turn the got free body parts. it explained why they pushed me and pushed me.
after i told PP i wanted the child they told me i was NOT pregnant.
i was. they got their jollies off when i cried. they lied. sick sick people.
You aren’t allowed a “second opinion” in a monopoly
Which brings to mind the old joke about the difference between God and a doctor --God doesn't think He's a doctor...
Miley Cyrus was born with some other name that I don’t recall right now. As a baby she smiled a lot, so they nicknamed her “Smiley,” which got shortened to “Miley.” I guess people are giving their kids that name outright now.
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