{"id":4101,"date":"2009-05-08T16:50:41","date_gmt":"2009-05-08T21:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=4101"},"modified":"2009-05-08T16:50:41","modified_gmt":"2009-05-08T21:50:41","slug":"heart-surgery-on-a-baby-inside-the-womb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/heart-surgery-on-a-baby-inside-the-womb\/","title":{"rendered":"Heart surgery on a baby inside the womb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20090508.wsurgery0508\/BNStory\/Front\/home\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>TORONTO \u2014 In what&#8217;s being called a Canadian first, Toronto doctors have successfully performed a heart procedure on a fetus inside the womb.<\/p>\n<p>A team of doctors at the Hospital for Sick Children and Mount Sinai Hospital expanded one of the baby&#8217;s heart valves using a balloon catheter.<\/p>\n<p>The device was inserted through the mother&#8217;s abdomen and then into the fetus to reverse heart failure before delivery.<\/p>\n<p>Sick Kids Hospital says the procedure allowed the baby to remain safely in utero for a crucial extra month before her birth on April 15.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Even though this tiny life is called a \u201cfetus\u201d twice, the writer makes a refreshing politically incorrect slip in the last sentence and calls the unborn child what it is: a <strong>baby<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From here: TORONTO \u2014 In what&#8217;s being called a Canadian first, Toronto doctors have successfully performed a heart procedure on a fetus inside the womb. A team of doctors at the Hospital for Sick Children and Mount Sinai Hospital expanded &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/heart-surgery-on-a-baby-inside-the-womb\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[264],"tags":[2233],"class_list":["post-4101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pro-life","tag-pro-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}