But one pound? That’s not viable, except in some fantasy world.

It's not impossible that one pound infant will survive. I don't think that the odds of not having severe disabilities are good, though.

That was in 2010. She’s 15 now and regularly makes me question all of my life‘s choices because she has never met a point she has not wanted to argue with me.😐

As a 24 weeker she had about a 50-50 shot of surviving. She was in the Nicu for four months and one of those months was on a ventilator.

There were some other micropreemies in that NICU who were smaller than her who also made it. So there’s a lot of factors that go into whether or not that child could make it. But at the end of the day that woman should not have been kept alive just to be an incubator.

Thank you for getting my main point, which is this poor woman should not have been made into an incubator.

If she had been diagnosed instead of being dismissed when she first went to the ER, she very likely would not have ended her life like this. The legislated cruelty just piles up.

It’s not been the first time a woman has been kept barely alive for this reason and it won’t be the last. There’s no regard for women at all.

who weighed less than a pound at birth. She is now 16 and outstandingly delightful. She had to use oxygen for a while but came through and hikes in the mountains of New Mexico every weekend.

(I think the abortion law is wrong, or its interpretation, but just passing it on about the medical progress.)

If you read my post on this below, yours is not the case of a child gestated in the body of a brain-dead mother. I don't mean to be crude about it or upset you with my comment but the prematurity is not the full measure of the potential issues. Your granddaughter had the advantage (despite her premature birth) of developing in the body of an otherwise healthy mother. That, physiologically, is night and day different from what this poor child has experienced in the Georgia case, and the prognosis--even if good for early survival in this latter case--remains less clear for full developmental health in childhood and beyond.

But, I join you in celebrating your healthy granddaughter.

The truth is that a child born that prematurely and having gestated in the body of a brain-dead mother--despite ALL of the massive strides we have made in neonatal care--is at risk throughout childhood and even into adulthood for issues related to that prematurity and its adverse impact on developing organs. Whether that be overt congenital defects or kidneys or other organs that are perfused by less than optimal blood flow-- or any number of other structural or developmental issues that may be detected only as the body is put at stress for one reason or another--such dramatic impacts on the growing fetus within a brain-dead mother are being ignored and discounted. This is reprehensible.

The family of that poor woman was given no choice. I can only hope that they have a lawyer fully capable of fighting the state of GA and Emory University Hospital against being forced to pay the exorbitant bill required for care they never approved nor requested for their brain-dead child, necessitated by cruel anti-abortion laws.

at such a low weight

has about a 5% chance of survival.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC28258/