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Exclusive: Doctors Perform Heart Surgery On Baby Still Inside Womb To Remove Tumor

March 30, 2017 11:52 PM By Stephanie Stahl


PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia is world-renowned for its fetal surgery in which an operation is performed on a baby still inside the womb.

Recently, in yet another historic procedure, CHOP

http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2017/03/30/chop-doctors-fetal-heart-surgery/
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“We’re operating on two patients here with the single intent,” said Rychik. “Our goal is to get to the tumor and resect the tumor but we also have mother and baby.”

Juan is now the second baby to survive the fetal surgery.

The procedure was performed when his mother was 21 weeks pregnant with the baby.

There goes the "it is just a clump of cells" argument.  The pro-abort crowd isn't going to like that.
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