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By Lisa Bourne June 24, 2019 – Cleveland Clinic medical center has successfully performed its first in utero fetal surgery to repair a spina bifida defect in an unborn baby girl nearly 23 weeks old, the facility has announced. The surgery was performed in February by...
Prenatal Surgery Exposes Abortion for What It Really Is By John Stonestreet & GH. Shane Morris In an age of prenatal medical breakthroughs—and I mean incredible breakthroughs—it’s hard to imagine how abortion can still be considered healthcare. Just a few...
Nine months later her baby is developmentally “right on schedule” By Dave Andrusko When Michelle Blaire of Hermitage, Pa. learned her unborn child had been diagnosed with the most severe form of spina bifida, she told WFMJ-TV she was given three options. “Abort—always...
By Texas Right to Life As surgical technology advances, doctors are better able to address health conditions before a baby is even born. By treating a child’s conditions before birth, doctors can sometimes prevent further damage, facilitate a healthy delivery, and...
By Dave Andrusko Denise Grady is a first-rate Health and medicine reporter at The New York Times. I love reading her stories for her ability to break incredibly complicated medical stories down into layman’s language and to inject a dose of her own humanity. Which...
By Dave Andrusko It would be impossible to imagine the heartache experienced by Khae Saetern-Angeles and husband Bobby when they learned their unborn son had deadly amount of fluid in his chest. They had battled years of infertility, according to Monica Jacquez of ABC...
By Dave Andrusko We’ve carried many stories of fetal surgery in which surgeons most typically correct spina bifida or remove lung tumors. But a report that came out recently in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology documented a medical first. Three years...
By Dave Andrusko Sometimes it may help not to do the obvious, in this case check out the date showing when something was published. That’s what I did, for good or for ill, when I ran across (and then read) a book review of “The Making of the Unborn Patient: a Societal...
By Wesley J. Smith We hear sometimes from pro abortion types that fetuses are nothing of moral note until they are born–and sometimes not even then, e.g., personhood theory. We are sometimes told that during prenatal care, only the mothers are patients. Yet, a story...
By Dave Andrusko Sometimes it may help not to do the obvious: check out the date showing when something was published. That’s what I did, for good or for ill, when I ran across (and then read) a book review of “The Making of the Unborn Patient: a Societal Anatomy of...