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Originally Posted by AOII Angel
That's where this case would be the same as an ectopic. Ectopic pregnancies have nothing wrong with the fetus. They are just located outside of the uterus. There are actually a lot of cases in the literature where ectopic fetuses are carried to term and survive as normal babies. The only thing "wrong" with these fetuses is that they kill the mothers.
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I thought that most ectopic pregnancies couldn't progress because they'd get to a point in development where they wouldn't be able to get the nutrients and such that they needed because they wouldn't actually have a placenta, etc.
By "a lot of cases" what percentage are we really talking about?
I don't mean to come across as confrontational so much as really surprised by the medical information. If it's really the case that most ectopic pregnancies are sustainable, why wouldn't there be more interest in just trying to move them to the uterus, rather than just removing them.
I'm thinking of the cases in which people really want to be pregnant and are devastated by having to have the pregnancy removed or even Catholic heath institutions who would probably love to have options to save both.
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