ABC’s “The Good Doctor” Features Life-Saving Surgery for Preborn Baby After a Mother Rejects Abortion

By Texas Right to Life
National Right to Life

A recent episode of the television show “The Good Doctor” tells a life-affirming story in which an ailing mother and baby are both treated by a medical team. The October 16 episode of “The Good Doctor,” which follows the residency of Dr. Shaun Murphy, accurately portrays the sometimes extreme pressure parents face to choose abortion. A 36-year-old woman who is 22 weeks pregnant faces a difficult choice in how to treat her preborn baby’s life-threatening condition while managing her own health conditions.

Despite the pressure of her doctors and husband to choose abortion, the mother insists on preserving her child’s Life and ultimately succeeds. As NewsBusters notes, “How refreshing, in an age when pro-abortion storylines are so frequently worked into television scripts, to see a pro-life message win out.”

Over the course of the episode, the mother, Barbara, fights for her baby’s Life. Barbara has already suffered three miscarriages when doctors discover that her preborn baby has a life-threatening tumor at the base of the spine.

This type of tumor, called a sacrococcygeal teratoma, endangers the baby’s Life because the tumor grows so large that the baby’s heart and blood supply are overtaxed. In recent years, this condition has been successfully treated using groundbreaking open fetal surgery.

One tiny Texan who is living proof is Lynlee Hope Boemer who underwent open fetal surgery at 23 weeks’ gestation. Today, Lynlee is a healthy one-year-old.

While “The Good Doctor” presents the option of open fetal surgery, the procedure is complicated by Barbara’s health conditions. Sadly, mothers in difficult medical situations are often told they must end their baby’s Life through abortion in order to save their own. Continuing pregnancy can be an immediate threat to a mother’s Life, but even in these rare circumstances abortion is still not necessary. 

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