{"id":191618,"date":"2018-11-26T09:53:50","date_gmt":"2018-11-26T15:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=191618"},"modified":"2018-11-26T13:01:38","modified_gmt":"2018-11-26T19:01:38","slug":"doctor-prenatal-baby-patient-person","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/doctor-prenatal-baby-patient-person\/","title":{"rendered":"Doctor on prenatal surgery: If the baby is a patient, then he’s also a person"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In a recent video linked on Facebook, Dr. William Lile, an OB\/GYN in Florida, speaks about how children in the womb are distinct human beings from their mothers, and also how they should be viewed as persons<\/em> because they can receive prenatal medical treatment.<\/p>\n

In the video below, Lile says that “the mom is a patient, and the baby is a patient.” The mother’s body, he says, doesn’t see the baby’s body as just another one of her organs — which is so often the implication of pro-abortion slogans such as ‘my body, my choice’ — but as a “foreign entity.” Sometimes, he adds, the mother’s body even makes antibodies against the baby. In cases like this, antibodies cross the placenta and begin to attack the baby, and the child’s blood count may become low enough that a blood transfusion is necessary… in-utero<\/em>. It can be done “as early as 19 weeks,” says Lile, and can be done every four weeks to continue to ensure the health of the baby, because the baby is viewed as a separate patient.<\/p>\n