Fetal surgery is becoming more and more common, saving lives and improving the conditions of preborn children. Like many other medical advances, open fetal surgery (as displayed in the images below) offers an amazing look at the developing person inside the womb.
Images and videos below are of surgical procedures and may be disturbing for some viewers.
1. Open fetal surgery by Michael Harrison, MD, and the UCSF Fetal Treatment Center:
Fetal Surgery by Dr Michael Harrison, MD
2. Fetal surgery Ted Talk by Dr. Oluyinka Olutoye:
Fetal Surgery Dr. Oluyinka Olutoye Ted Talk
3. Houston Chronicle report on Texas Children’s Hospital, “Spina bifida case marks advances in fetal surgery“:
Houston Chronicle Open Fetal Surgery (Photo: Karen Warren, Houston Chronicle)
4. Vanderbilt University report on fetal surgery procedure yielding positive results:
22 week old preborn baby (Image:1999 file photo by Anne Rayner/Vanderbilt)
5. CNN’s report on spina bifida surgery for a 20-week-old preborn baby:
Fetal Surgery CNN Report on 20-week baby with spina bifida
6. Medscape – Fetal Surgery for Sacrococcygeal Teratoma Technique:
Pulse oximeter placed on foot of fetus (image: Dr Douglas Miniati and Dr Payam Saadai, Division of Pediatric Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine)
7. Open fetal surgery for 25-week preborn baby with spina bifida (watch video):
Fetal Surgery spine of preborn baby
8. Today.com: Baby ‘born twice’ thrives after life-saving surgery:
Fetal Surgery – tumor removed
9. Live Science – Fetus Brought Partway Out of Womb for Tumor Surgery:
Fetal Surgery 24 weeks (Image Credit: AJOC)
10. “Hand of Hope” by Michael Clancy, taken in 1999 of 21-week-old preborn Samuel Armas, grabbing a doctor’s hand during surgery. As Life News reported years later, “Armas was in the womb when Dr. Joseph Bruner performed a surgery on him to help correct some of the potential effects of spina bifida before his birth.”
Clancy’s iconic photo and story were later documented by PressTV and other worldwide media outlets:
Michael Clancy Hand of Hope (image: PressTV)
11. PBS produced “Twice Born,” a stunning documentary about fetal surgery:
PBS Documentary: Twice Born
It is amazing the extent to which members of the medical profession will go to save preborn children growing inside their mother’s wombs. Tragically, there is an inhuman side of “medicine” as well, which believes that ending the lives of other preborn child in an abortion is the better solution.
We long for the day when abortion in unthinkable. Until then, these tiny persons in the womb testify of their humanity.
