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The case of baby Theresa was the beginning of the ethical debate over anencephalic infant organ donation. [28] The story of baby Theresa remains a focus of basic moral philosophy. Baby Theresa was born with anencephaly in 1992. Her parents, knowing that their child was going to die, requested that her organs be given for transplantation.
[4] [5] When he was born, most of his skull was missing, his umbilical cord was tied around his neck, and his body was black and blue all over. [6] Doctors predicted he would die within hours. Jaxon Buell spent the first three and a half weeks in an intensive neonatal care unit. [6] His family lived in Tavares for most of Jaxon Buell's life.
The fetus is said to have acrania if it meets the following criteria: the fetus should have a perfectly normal facial bone, a normal cervical column but without the fetal skull and a volume of brain tissue equivalent to at least one-third of the normal brain size. [2]
A 7-month-old baby born in New Jersey is being considered the first to ever survive his rare condition past birth. The child, named Lucas, was diagnosed with exencephaly, a rare condition in which ...
Breanna Cecil was 11 weeks pregnant when she learned during an ultrasound that the fetus was diagnosed with acrania, a fatal condition in which the fetus is born without a skull.
Meet Bentley Yoder, a 7-month-old boy who defied all odds, despite being born with his brain outside of his skull.
On September 13, 2018, in Mandailing Natal, North Sumatra, Indonesia, a baby with cyclopia was born without a nose and one eye with the weight of 2.4kg (5.3lb) and heart rate under 100 bpm. The child died seven hours after birth. [23] On March 16, 2022, a boy was born in Al Bayda, Yemen, with cyclopia. He died 7 hours after birth.
One plaintiff who was denied an abortion after her daughter was diagnosed with anencephaly became ill on the witness stand as she detailed her harrowing pregnancy, Alex Woodward reports