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Weighed the same as half a bag of sugar at birth By Dave Andrusko Imagine you are the mom and your newborn son has joined you so much ahead of time he “was translucent and we could see his organs through his skin,” according to the mother of Austin Douglas. “His ears...
By Dave Andrusko In March, after a routine checkup, Samantha Crabb “thought everything was on track with her pregnancy,” according to reporter Julie Wootton. However, “Just a couple of days after a checkup, she went to the hospital with stomach pain and ended up going...
By Dave Andrusko Whatever their positions on abortion, many British newspapers are utterly fascinated by stories of premature babies who are born on the cusp of when it would be legal to abort them(24 weeks). The latest example, which I ran across this weekend, is Zoe...
“Jack Sparrow” born at 24 weeks By Dave Andrusko When doctors learned that Jack Riley Sadgrove would be born at 24 weeks, one of the first questions they asked his parents was whether they “wanted to keep the baby” since his chances for survival were so low. “The next...
By Fr. Mark Hodges LONDON, England, March 3, 2017 — Tiny Abiageal Peters, the youngest person to survive major abdominal surgery, has gone home from the hospital four months after her miraculous birth. At the time of the operation, she was less than 24 weeks from...
By Nancy Flanders Kelley Benham French, her husband Tom, and Tom’s two sons were already big fans of the Harry Potter book series by J.K. Rowling before baby girl Juniper was born 16 weeks early and the family wasn’t sure if she would survive. Weighing just one pound...
By Nancy Flanders Alyssa Young and her husband, Justin, had been talking about being parents since they first met and started dating as teenagers. They were thrilled when six years later, they were expecting their first child: a baby girl. However, things didn’t go as...
By Dave Andrusko Chicago is a city so wracked with deadly violence--it is in on a record-breaking pace for murders and shootings--that “Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson is expected to announce his department will be adding 970 hires to the force,” according to CNN....
By Dave Andrusko It’s easy to use the word “miracle” when talking about extremely premature babies who beat the odds. But if ever there were twins (about to celebrate their first birthday) whose survival qualifies as genuinely miraculous, it is Cadence Moore and her...
By Randall K. O’Bannon, Ph.D., NRL Director of Education & Research This analysis appears in the current digital edition of National Right to Life News. Along with all other columns, news stories, and commentaries, Dr. O’Bannon’s story can be read at...