Post by Guadalupe on Feb 24, 2017 12:16:24 GMT -5
PRO-LIFE
Study validates babies in utero are worth protecting
Thursday, February 23, 2017 | Charlie Butts (OneNewsNow.com)
Pro-life obstetricians understand that a pregnant woman isn't the only patient, and now medical ability allows them to act on what science has already confirmed with earlier treatments for unborn and premature babies.
A study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine on February 16, 2017, from Duke Health of more than 4,000 babies born between 22 and 24 weeks shows more of those infants are surviving and with fewer neurological difficulties. Dr. Donna Harrison, executive director of the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists, says while that should be celebrated, it also should cause one to pause and reflect on how that weighs in on the abortion issue.
"Babies who we thought could never survive at 22 or 23 weeks now survive about 30 percent of the time without problems," she says. "And so we have a situation in our mind where we think that if a baby survives outside the womb then that's a person worth protecting – but we don't protect the same baby inside the womb."
The unborn baby is still a human being, just in a different location. That means the pregnant woman and her baby are both a doctor's patients.
"These are little human beings, and pro-life doctors recognize that the baby is also their patient," Harrison tells OneNewsNow. "And so there's more and more being done for the fetal patient, even surgery when the baby is in utero, to try and help this second patient who is so helpless."
The study was supported by grants from several organizations, among them the National Institutes of Health and the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.
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Study validates babies in utero are worth protecting
Thursday, February 23, 2017 | Charlie Butts (OneNewsNow.com)
Pro-life obstetricians understand that a pregnant woman isn't the only patient, and now medical ability allows them to act on what science has already confirmed with earlier treatments for unborn and premature babies.
A study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine on February 16, 2017, from Duke Health of more than 4,000 babies born between 22 and 24 weeks shows more of those infants are surviving and with fewer neurological difficulties. Dr. Donna Harrison, executive director of the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists, says while that should be celebrated, it also should cause one to pause and reflect on how that weighs in on the abortion issue.
"Babies who we thought could never survive at 22 or 23 weeks now survive about 30 percent of the time without problems," she says. "And so we have a situation in our mind where we think that if a baby survives outside the womb then that's a person worth protecting – but we don't protect the same baby inside the womb."
The unborn baby is still a human being, just in a different location. That means the pregnant woman and her baby are both a doctor's patients.
"These are little human beings, and pro-life doctors recognize that the baby is also their patient," Harrison tells OneNewsNow. "And so there's more and more being done for the fetal patient, even surgery when the baby is in utero, to try and help this second patient who is so helpless."
The study was supported by grants from several organizations, among them the National Institutes of Health and the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.
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