Pro-life video of the day: Baby saved by prenatal heart surgery
by Hans Johnson
Josh Andrew Frydlewicz’s heart had an underdeveloped left side, so doctors at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia operated – months before he was born. They placed a stent by way of a needle through his mother’s abdomen. No child had made it to his or her first birthday after such a procedure. Until Josh Andrew did so with parents Katrina and Tony.
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Feb.05, 2013 12:00 pm |
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Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
Hans,
Thank you for posting this! Yay, Josh Andrew!!!!!
What a cutie! Three prolife aspects stand out to me-
1) doctors offered hope instead of abortion, even though it guaranteed no successful outcome for themselves
2) Mom and Dad went with that hopeful possibility, when it had to be nerve-wracking and carry health risks to Mom
3) Josh is nurtured by Mom, Dad, and older siblings- loved the birthday video that shows them all.
Wow. I wonder why they “operated” on a clump of cells? How do you operate on something that isn’t even alive?
A clump of cells has a heart?
Who knew??
See, they discovered that the potential heart in the blob of tissue in a woman’s uterus might have a potential problem if the blob of tissue ever developed into a real person, so they took a potential needle (oh wait . . . I think the needle was actual) and put a potential stent (no . . . that was actual, too) into his (oops . . its . . . because “his” designates that the potential being had a gender, which of course we all know it couldn’t have until it became an actual person after traveling through the magical birth canal . . . or in this case c-section incision . . . WAIT – I’M CONFUSED – what’s real here and what’s a unicorn?) heart (no, potential heart) and saved the blob of tissue’s life (no, future life, because he . . . no it . . . wasn’t alive when they did the life-saving surgery). GET IT?
GOT IT!
:)
@Elisa – funny! LL :D
Was it a potential boy?
Does that mean he had a potential penis?
My goodness. The cognitive dissonance it takes to defend the killing of potentials.
Elisa, that was awesome. I love learning about real science. (Or is it potential science?)