{"id":187075,"date":"2018-10-12T06:18:53","date_gmt":"2018-10-12T11:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=187075"},"modified":"2018-10-17T11:20:16","modified_gmt":"2018-10-17T16:20:16","slug":"doctor-save-abortion-survivor-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/doctor-save-abortion-survivor-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Doctor: Infant who survived abortion had expression of ‘grimace’ and ‘looked as if he wanted to cry’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The death of an abortion survivor changed the life of Texas physician Dr. Ron Bryce. During the 1980s when Bryce was doing his residency at a Fort Worth hospital, he attempted to save the infant’s life.\u00a0As an emergency medicine physician, Dr. Bryce recalled the day he was summoned by the neonatal intensive care unit late in the evening. He recalled receiving a code blue to the operating room and said that he had no idea what the emergency was about.<\/p>\n

Upon arrival, he found it unusual that hospital staffers said nothing to him. “They looked at me — no one told me anything.” Then he saw the baby in the corner on a table. The mother was still sedated. Bryce later learned that the baby had survived an abortion attempt.\u00a0The hospital, Bryce says, committed abortions on poor women “under the radar.”<\/p>\n

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“It was confusion in the operating room. It was confusion,” Dr. Bryce recounted.<\/p>\n

“Usually when we get called to code blue, you have a team-coordinated effort. When I got in there, nobody wanted to talk to me — I just see the baby in the corner up against the wall on a table. It was just odd. I didn\u2019t understand it was an abortion at that time. I just thought the baby was delivered early… it was later I started questioning people when I realized it was an abortion.”<\/p>\n

“It really hit me in the NICU when I had the baby in the incubator. I had to write a history of visual for the little guy. Initially it was just confusion. As far as I know, I was the only one that got called in for one of those. There may have been more, but they did not talk about it,” Dr. Bryce told Live Action News. “My gut feeling at that time was that it had happened before and babies were just left to die. The abortionist didn\u2019t want me in there. He didn\u2019t say anything to me.”<\/p>\n

Sadly, the child, too young to survive outside the womb at the time, ultimately died.<\/p>\n

“The baby was too young to be viable — 21 weeks. I couldn\u2019t just let him die. I took to the baby to the neonatal intensive unit. Some probes were too small. He survived until the next day and then died,”\u00a0Dr. Bryce stated emotionally.<\/p>\n

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Dr. Bryce elaborated further in his book Fingerprint of God<\/a>:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

At the time, I had been a physician for about three years. I had seen a few aborted fetuses who still had a heartbeat. But this infant wasn\u2019t lying limp like the others were doing. He was moving his arms and legs and looked as if he wanted to cry\u2014a rather embarrassing situation for the abortionist. The situation struck me as absurd. Just minutes earlier, this fragile human being had legally been a \u201cnonperson\u201d possessing no rights. Yet, after surviving the abortion, he had magically become a \u201cperson\u201d entitled to medical care (however inadequate that care happened to be). The same system that had failed to kill him was now in charge of saving his life.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

I stared down at his frail body, emotion arose in my chest with each tiny heartbeat… his breathing became more labored, he grimaced several times\u2014evidence of a struggle with something he had no ability to comprehend. While I could see him, with his eyes fused shut he could not see me. He would never know me or remember me, but I would always remember him. Finally, his grunting quieted, movements ceased, and the grimace passed.<\/em><\/p>\n

Dr. Bryce believes that “induced labor” was the most likely method of abortion used on the baby he tried to save. “He was born live intact, his skin wasn\u2019t scalded, so it wasn\u2019t saline,” he said. However, “I don\u2019t have the reports from the mother.” (An induced labor or induction abortion is shown in the video below.)<\/p>\n