No baby deserves the epithet “miracle” more than Durga Thangarajah, who grew to full term in her mother’s abdomen and was safely delivered last week after being fertilised in her ovary. She is the only child in Australia -- and possibly the world -- to survive a full-term ovarian pregnancy. Attending obstetrician Andrew Miller, of Darwin Private Hospital, said it “truly is a miracle” that Mrs Meera Thangarajah “got a living baby out of it”. Ovarian pregnancies are the rarest form of ectopic pregnancies and occur when the egg fails to travel down the fallopian tube and into the uterus. Ovarian pregnancies are regarded as a life-threatening complication and are usually terminated before 10 weeks. ~ Herald Sun (Australia), May 31
In Britain another baby has astonished everyone -- most of all his mother -- by surviving an abortion at eight weeks and making his presence known 11 weeks later. His…
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Bombs across the border
10 Feb 2012
The US makes a strong case that its military interventions in Pakistan are just and legal. Whether they’re good is…