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This is far from being the first time that medical opinion had been given that a child will never walk, talk, live past an hour, live past a day, live on to be an adult and so on and so forth. And had their parents not insisted and pushed for their survival these so called soon to die children would not be healthy, fully functioning adults today. How do pioneering treatments become fully viable treatments if they are never tried and therefore developed??. I have a close family member who's baby was diagnosed with a serious unknown heart defect whilst still in the womb. The child's mother had to endure endless pressure throughout her pregnancy to terminate this 'impossible' pregnancy as it was said that the outcome would be a stillborn child or a newborn baby who would die within minutes never mind hours of its delivery. Today the child is a happy 6 year old boy whom having undergone 'pioneering' emergency surgery upon his immediate delivery, now looks and plays with his friends just like any other little boy. I have a close friend who suffered a massive stroke that left in a coma for 3 years. Her family were told that she was brained dead and in a vegetable state and that she who would never walk, talk or care for herself again without 24hr care and that in fact she would if she survived, never know again that they were even there. They were bombarded with pressure to turn the machines off. Today that woman is a fully functioning adult who can do just the same as everybody else. Whom having rehabilitated herself went to university to re-study and then became a successful accountant who owns her own business. This is my point!!!

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