| From 1989 to 1991, the rate of such defects for Brownsville was 10 times the U.S. average, or about 30 anencephalic births per 10,000 births. |
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| He reminds me that, already, few doctors struggle to save anencephalic babies or those with spina bifida. |
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| It can uncover 90 percent of anencephalic pregnancies and 80 percent of spina bifida cases. |
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| By scan and X-ray, they discovered I had hydramnios, which is a great deal of fluid, and an anencephalic baby. |
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| I once saw an anencephalic baby at 32 weeks, and he impressed me quite a bit. |
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| A 17-year-old woman with an anencephalic fetus, who was refused an abortion, sued the state and was granted indemnification. |
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| I continued to search and I found a site for parents of anencephalic children that bore testimony to the short lives of their children. |
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| I'm not trying to be personal-I'm sorry-but we already have assumed that an anencephalic baby, without a brain, is not a person. |
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| I'd like to know what the outcome is for an anencephalic or brain-dead child. |
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| However, that does not match up with the experience of many families who have had an anencephalic child. |
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| Doctors will tell you that an anencephalic child can neither see nor hear, nor feel pain, that he or she is a vegetable. |
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| In a Finnish study, mothers of anencephalic children were more likely than matched control patients to remember having a cold in the first trimester of pregnancy. |
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| During my studies, I learned that an anencephalic baby was non-viable, therefore the pregnancy was to be terminated when it was discovered by ultrasound. |
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| Can an anencephalic child sense or do anything? |
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| First, should an anencephalic infant-in other words, a baby born without a brain but with other viable organs and tissues-be considered, and assumed as, a donor? |
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| Many anencephalic babies do breathe spontaneously. |
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| What does an anencephalic child look like? |
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| If it is possible to keep the waters intact, the birth of an anencephalic child will happen in almost the same way as if the mother were giving birth to a healthy child, and will take as long. |
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| For the purposes of this Protocol, neonates including anencephalic neonates receive the same protection as any person and the rules on certification of death are applicable to them. |
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