The AP had to positively portray the liberal agenda in its Feb. 11 article, “High-risk pregnancies rising in U. S.” But it tripped up.
It does not bode well for the feminist movement that the reason for the headline was, “[p]atients are getting older, so by definition, they’re higher-risk.” The feminist movement has persuaded women to ignore their biological clocks and pursue careers before family.
But by expending the bulk of the article’s thrust that medicine is overcoming these obstacles, the author made point after pro-life point that abortions for “life of the mother” should be history. Consider these quotes….


But in this otherwise troubling trend is also some good news. A small but growing number of women are successfully having children despite life-threatening conditions that once made a safe pregnancy almost inconceivable….
[D]octors say that tens of thousands of organ transplant recipients, breast cancer survivors, women with heart defects, and even women with the AIDS virus have decided to risk childbearing in the last several years.
Not all of these stories have happy endings, and many people worry that some of these women will not live long enough to raise their children, or that they will pass on their medical problems.
But most results have been so surprisingly good that they are overturning decades of gloomy dogma about who is medically fit to have a child….
“We have to change our mindset about the perfect pregnancy,” [Temple University’s Dr. Vincent Armenti] said. Women should be given advice based on solid research “instead of an emotional feeling that some people just shouldn’t have a baby.”…


(Or the abortion industry’s financial stake.)

Birth outcomes for older women and those with medical problems “have been better than we would expect,” although complications are more common, [Dr. Mary D’Alton of Columbia University Medical Center] said. For example, about half of organ transplant recipients give birth prematurely, although often by just a couple of weeks….
fish.jpgDr. Gabrielle Fish [pictured right] felt optimistic when she decided to try pregnancy after her kidney transplant. Fish, of Cherry Hill, N.J., was in her mid-30s and had been stable on her anti-rejection drugs for two years…. The result: a healthy daughter, Madelyn, now 6….
A delivery room nurse from New York, [Carla Taylor] was 42 when she discovered she was pregnant after having artery embolization to treat uterine fibroids. Such women are advised not to try pregnancy because the treatment plugs blood vessels that feed fibroids, and that might keep a fetus from growing properly.
Taylor had a healthy daughter, Bailey, now 6. Moritz, the gynecology director who works with Taylor at Roosevelt Hospital, said 16 of his patients have unexpectedly had children after the fibroid treatment and most have done well….
Women with congenital heart defects used to die young. Those who lived were urged not to get pregnant. Now many such defects can be fixed, and children of women with heart defects are having their own children….
Nearly two-thirds of women who gave birth from 1996-2000 took a medication during pregnancy, a large federally funded study found. Of those, nearly 40 percent took a drug whose safety in pregnancy is not established, and nearly 5 percent took a drug potentially risky to the fetus. More pregnant women have taken new medicines for cancer, depression and other problems….
Each year, about 6,000 to 7,000 HIV-infected American women give birth. Such pregnancies have been controversial because of the risk of spreading the virus to their babies. But modern AIDS drugs are so effective at protecting babies from the virus’ spread that more doctors are accepting these women’s choice to have children.

The article also noted, “More people with high blood pressure are getting pregnant,” which to a large extent erases the toxemia/pre-eclampsia pro-abortion talking point.
Where there’s a will, there’s a way.
[Photo courtesy of AP.]

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