PHOTO: Fetus Terminated At 22 Weeks for Hand Anomaly

This baby was terminated at 22 weeks in Russia due to the absence of a hand.

This case was submitted to  SonoWorld by

Andrey Volkov, MD, PhD.
 Department of Obstetric and Gynecology ¹ 1 Rostov Medical University, Rostov on Don, Russia.

PHOTO: Illegal Abortion at 24 Weeks

India An unqualified nurse attempted to abort this third female fetus at 24 weeks gestation. The mother had to be treated in hospital. The surgeons pulled out this baby missing her two arms and with rib cage exposed.

This picture was taken from a medical paper:


Severe Intraabdominal Trauma In Illegal Abortion: A Case Report 
G Gole, U Santpur, R Kaul
The Internet Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics,
Volume 16, Number 3. (2012)

PHOTO: Second Trimester Abortion

This photo is of the parts that remained after a second trimester abortion. The caption says that the skull was collapsed during the procedure.

 The photo was taken from this textbook on placental pathology:

 Rebecca N Baergen,
 Manual of Pathology of the Human Placenta: Second Edition (Google eBook)
Springer Science & Business Media, Jan 6, 2011

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PHOTO: Fetus at 27 Weeks Terminated by Feticide

This is a picture of a fetus terminated at 27 weeks by feticide (injection), and then delivered two weeks later. The photo was taken from a graduate thesis published at Laval University. The child had numerous genetic problems, but only a relatively small number of malformations were observed at the autopsy.

Source:
Macoura Gadji
Prenatal diagnosis and molecular characterization of two constitutional rings derived from one chromosome 22, 2005 
Thesis published at Laval University