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Powerful Before-And-After Portraits Of Premature Babies
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Depending on when they are born, premature babies can face difficult uphill battles. As Quebec-based photographer Red Methot shows in his Les Premas photo series, premature babies often do overcome their many challenges and persevere!
The photo series has people of widely varying ages pose with photos of themselves as premature babies. In most, the trappings of the hospital ICU are still present. Premature babies can be born with under-developed organs, and are usually held in the ICU until their organs have developed fully.
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Felix, born at 24 weeks
Margot, born at 29 weeks
Noah and Nathan, born at 32 weeks
Thomas, born at 23 weeks
Noah, born at 32 weeks. His twin sister Victoria, left in the framed picture, died after living 1 month
Julie, born at 7 months of pregnancy, and her son Kevin, born at 34 weeks
Zachary, born at 27 weeks
Eva, born at 29 weeks
Charles, born at 26 weeks
Tamica, born at 32 weeks (and 26 weeks pregnant at the time of the photo)
Alice, born at 27 weeks
Theo, born at 25 weeks
Emile, born at 26 weeks
Felix, born at 23 weeks, and his brother Alexis, born at almost 33 weeks
Lexiani, born at 25 weeks
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My grand daughter was born 24 weeks 1lb.9oz in 1990. Two days later went to 10 oz. Spent 14 weeks in NICU. Now serving in US NAVY.
Bless these children
This is why late term abortion is horrific!!!!! These are children - not a clump of tissue!
Women don't have late term abortions unless their lives are at risk you idiot. The women who have to have the late abortion wanted to have the babies in the first place. Women who want an abortion do so at a MUCH earlier time when the fetus IS still just a clump of cells and tissues. It's barely a human being yet. Leave our bodies alone! It's OUR own damn decision what we want to do with them. No one else. Respect a woman's right to choose. No matter what that choice is.
Late term abortions are NEVER necessary for maternal health!!! Delivery through induction or C-Section if necessary will end the risk to the mother without needing to kill the baby. Late term abortions are done for a variety of reasons but maternal health risk is never valid at this stage of gestation.
You are mistaken. Late-term abortions are relatively rare, but they definitely happen for reasons other than health concerns, not to mention life-threatening health concerns. Here's just one example from Teen Vogue: https://www.teenvogue.com/story/what-it-was-like-to-get-a-later-abortion That story exemplifies what PP's own research showed - the primary reason women get late abortions is that they didn't know they were pregnant. Other reasons include trouble deciding whether or not to abort and needing time to save up money. There's not a ton of research on this subject, but what we have suggests that about 25% of late-term abortions are health-related. A much smaller percentage of even that would be "life-threatening." In fact, if the mother's life is in danger at that stage, doctors will almost certainly just do an early delivery. The baby has a shot at survival, and a C-section is quicker and safer for the woman than a 2-day late-abortion procedure.
That's not true statement on late term abortions. You just don't want the truth.
I knew someone who aborted at 24 weeks because her boyfriend cheated on her. Yes, it does happen. As for women and their bodies. When there is a 20 week old baby in there, it aint just her body anymore. You argument is vile.
Absolutely not true, they fly into albuquerque and have late term abortions all the time for convenience. Some have died having the abortion.
So what the hell are women pregnant with in the beginning of their pregnancies if the contents of their gestations are “barely human?” And when do human beings ever stop being anything more than a clump of cells and tissues?? Are you asserting the idea that the condition of being a biologically human is not fixed? In other words, to you and a lot of pro-abortion advocates, human existence is a function of the organism’s development, am I understanding that correctly? If you’re in favor of a so-called woman’s right to choose, at least remain educated in what women are choosing to kill.
My grand daughter was born 24 weeks 1lb.9oz in 1990. Two days later went to 10 oz. Spent 14 weeks in NICU. Now serving in US NAVY.
Bless these children
This is why late term abortion is horrific!!!!! These are children - not a clump of tissue!
Women don't have late term abortions unless their lives are at risk you idiot. The women who have to have the late abortion wanted to have the babies in the first place. Women who want an abortion do so at a MUCH earlier time when the fetus IS still just a clump of cells and tissues. It's barely a human being yet. Leave our bodies alone! It's OUR own damn decision what we want to do with them. No one else. Respect a woman's right to choose. No matter what that choice is.
Late term abortions are NEVER necessary for maternal health!!! Delivery through induction or C-Section if necessary will end the risk to the mother without needing to kill the baby. Late term abortions are done for a variety of reasons but maternal health risk is never valid at this stage of gestation.
You are mistaken. Late-term abortions are relatively rare, but they definitely happen for reasons other than health concerns, not to mention life-threatening health concerns. Here's just one example from Teen Vogue: https://www.teenvogue.com/story/what-it-was-like-to-get-a-later-abortion That story exemplifies what PP's own research showed - the primary reason women get late abortions is that they didn't know they were pregnant. Other reasons include trouble deciding whether or not to abort and needing time to save up money. There's not a ton of research on this subject, but what we have suggests that about 25% of late-term abortions are health-related. A much smaller percentage of even that would be "life-threatening." In fact, if the mother's life is in danger at that stage, doctors will almost certainly just do an early delivery. The baby has a shot at survival, and a C-section is quicker and safer for the woman than a 2-day late-abortion procedure.
That's not true statement on late term abortions. You just don't want the truth.
I knew someone who aborted at 24 weeks because her boyfriend cheated on her. Yes, it does happen. As for women and their bodies. When there is a 20 week old baby in there, it aint just her body anymore. You argument is vile.
Absolutely not true, they fly into albuquerque and have late term abortions all the time for convenience. Some have died having the abortion.
So what the hell are women pregnant with in the beginning of their pregnancies if the contents of their gestations are “barely human?” And when do human beings ever stop being anything more than a clump of cells and tissues?? Are you asserting the idea that the condition of being a biologically human is not fixed? In other words, to you and a lot of pro-abortion advocates, human existence is a function of the organism’s development, am I understanding that correctly? If you’re in favor of a so-called woman’s right to choose, at least remain educated in what women are choosing to kill.