The debate over abortion is at a fever pitch as Democrats try to use the issue to win in November.
But there are exciting medical advancements going on that are changing the entire debate.
And hospitals across the country are doing one thing that has pro-lifers applauding wildly.
Hospitals across the country are now saving more premature babies than ever thanks to improved medical capabilities.
Putting the lie to the pro-abortion lobby’s “viability” argument
For years, radical pro-abortion activists have claimed abortion should be legal up to the viability of the baby outside the womb.
But they’ve never been able to quite pinpoint just when that occurs.
And thanks to advancements in medical technology, that so-called viability timeframe is getting earlier and earlier.
According to the Wall Street Journal, doctors are now routinely able to save babies born as early as between 21 and 22 weeks with the aid of “improved techniques to help tiny lungs develop and protect fragile skin and organs.”
And those hospitals that have developed new protocols for resuscitating very premature babies are reporting survival rates of at least 67% for those babies born at 22 weeks.
When Fatima Goines went into labor at just 22 weeks, doctors at Methodist Hospital in Minneapolis told her no hospital could save her baby.
They said they would deliver her daughter and then allow her to hold her infant until she died.
But Fatima was determined, and she left Methodist Hospital and instead checked into a birthing center just seven miles away.
After Goines gave birth to her daughter there, baby Me’Lonii was intubated and placed in an incubator.
During the infant’s four-month stay in the NICU doctors closed a hole in an artery near her heart.
Now, four years later, Me’Lonii is a healthy girl who has “surpassed all the developmental milestones for her age,” reports the Wall Street Journal.
“She’s doing wonderfully well,” Dr. Thomas George, who directs the Children’s Minnesota neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), told the Journal.
Still progress to be made
This is good news to mothers-to-be and to the pro-life community, but there is still work to do.
Many U.S. hospitals are still poorly equipped to treat babies born this early.
And many have chosen not to provide such high-level care, telling parents the treatment is too costly and likely to fail.
Parents are also told that even if a very premature infant survives, they could face some lasting disabilities.
“[P]arents often aren’t aware of what’s possible or that other hospitals, even just a few miles away, might offer their newborns a fighting chance,” the Journal noted.
In June 2023, the smallest baby ever born to date at St. Francis Hospital in Hartford, Connecticut, was discharged from the hospital after having been delivered at 22 weeks and cared for in the NICU for four months.
Weighing just 12.4 ounces at her birth, with the help of her NICU team, Zahraliz Francis Angueira overcame the odds and grew to 7 pounds, 5 ounces by the time of her discharge, the hospital reported.
And in a news release said, “Over the past four months, Zahraliz has become the hospital’s “miracle” baby as colleagues have rallied to support her and her mom … in an emotional celebration, Saint Francis colleagues, including many of the doctors, nurses, and other staff who helped care for Zahraliz, gathered in the hospital Rotunda to provide well wishes to the family as they embarked on their journey home.”
This is great news for mothers-to-be and shows yet another fatal flaw in the false arguments of the pro-abortion lobby.
Pro-Life Press will keep you up-to-date on this developing story.
