In what may be the earliest in utero surgery of its kind, Australian surgeons are being credited with saving the legs of a 22-week-old preborn baby.
The French news agency AFP reported Leah was diagnosed with amniotic band syndrome, in which bands of tissue wrap themselves around a developing baby's limbs, hands or feet and cut off blood flow. Doctors said the tissue had wrapped around both of Leah's legs.
Leah was born in January, and doctors believe she will be able to walk.
"Abortion is on a collision course with science," said Carrie Gordon Earll, senior analyst for bioethics at Focus on the Family Action. "Stories like this one confirm the humanity of preborn children and bring us face-to-face with the atrocity of abortion. As medical technology continues to advance in prenatal surgeries, it will be increasingly difficult to justify abortion — at any stage of development."
