Discover magazine had a cover story called “Surgery before Birth”:
“A precise dose of anesthetic had put both the mother and the 24 week old fetus safely and limply to sleep. And now, lifting the little arm gently to rotate the 1 pound body into position, pediatric surgeon Michael Harrison poised his scalpel just under the rib cage. This astonishing intrusion on an unborn life took place on June 15, 1989; it was necessary because this tiny patient’s diaphragm had failed to close as it should have.”
Pat Ohlendorf–Moffat, “Surgery before Birth” Discover, February 1991, 59
Quoted in Randy Alcorn “Pro-life Answers to Pro-Choice Arguments” (Sisters, Oregon: Multnomah Publishers, 2000)
Surgeons can now perform delicate surgery in the womb. However, babies at 24 weeks can be aborted in any state in the United States.
See pictures of babies aborted at 24 weeks.
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