If Fetal Surgery Can Save the Life of an Unborn Child, Why Do Some Oppose It?

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Daily Signal:

Gabriella Morrongiello

December 12, 2014

 

Roughly three percent of babies born each year in the United States suffer from a complex birth defect, according to the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.

That number is lower than it would have been without the work of Dr. Michael Harrison, who pioneered maternal-fetal medicine and performed the world’s first open fetal surgery at the University of California, San Francisco, Children’s Hospital in 1981.

 

The innovative procedure enabled physicians to address developing or existing defects that previously had been limited to postnatal treatment.

 

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But although prenatal surgery can minimize the severity of neurological damage and physical abnormalities in unborn babies, some question the ethics of these procedures since most introduce risks to the life and future fertility of pregnant mothers.

 

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AMAZING!!!

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Is the title a trick question?

[Valin]

Is the title a trick question?

 

 

Nope

[Cyber_Liberty]

 

Is the title a trick question?

 

 

Nope

 

That's too bad because every answer I can come up with sucks dogs running.

[Valin]

 

 

Is the title a trick question?

 

 

Nope

 

That's too bad because every answer I can come up with sucks dogs running.

 

 

 

Everything has consequences. Thing is not that long ago this kind of operation was Sci-Fi.