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Successful Ectopic Pregnancies
Bill Fortenberry

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_ In my previous article on Ectopic Personhood, I presented eight cases of successful live births from ectopic pregnancies.  As was to be expected, this article generated some rather strong responses from both pro-life and pro-choice sources alike.  The majority of those responses questioned the soundness of basing my conclusions on a mere eight cases.  It was suggested that these cases were just flukes of nature and that I couldn’t possibly hope for their results to be repeated in any significant numbers.  I accepted this challenge, and began pouring through scientific journals seeking more information on this very sensitive topic.  Here is a small sample of what I have found:


A Case of Abdominal Pregnancy
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2086722/pdf/brmedj04281-0010.pdf

A case of advanced viable extrauterine pregnancy
http://www.pngimr.org.pg/png_med_journal/Advanced%20viable%20-%20%20Mar%2097.pdf

A rare case of term viable secondary abdominal pregnancy following rupture of a rudimentary horn
http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1752-1947-3-38.pdf

A viable secondary intra-abdominal pregnancy resulting from rupture of uterine scar
http://bjr.birjournals.org/content/80/955/e134.full

Abdominal pregnancy
http://www.sonoworld.com/fetus/page.aspx?id=1032

Abdominal Pregnancy at the University College Hospital, Ibadan: A Ten-Year Review
https://142.150.190.46/bitstream/1807/4967/1/rh05014.pdf

Abdominal pregnancy carried to term following the treatment of pelvic tuberculosis
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1810923/pdf/procrsmed00300-0070b.pdf

Abdominal Pregnancy Complicated by Appendicitis and Bilateral Pyosalpinx
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1562192/pdf/canmedaj00527-0122.pdf

Abdominal pregnancy presenting as a missed abortion at 16 weeks' gestation
http://www.hkmj.org/article_pdfs/hkm0012p425.pdf

Abdominal pregnancy with a full term live fetus: Case report
http://www.annalsafrmed.org/article.asp?issn=1596-3519;year=2008;volume=7;issue=4;spage=198;epage=199;aulast=Isah

Abdominal Pregnancy with a Living Child
http://books.google.com/books?id=QSkNAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA170#v=onepage&q&f=false

Advanced Abdominal Pregnancy
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1582720/pdf/canmedaj00596-0056.pdf

Advanced abdominal pregnancy: case report and review of 163 cases reported since 1946
http://www.rrh.org.au/publishedarticles/article_print_1087.pdf

Advanced extrauterine pregnancy
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2098249/pdf/brmedj03046-0021.pdf

Advanced Extra-uterine Gestation, with Living Child
http://books.google.com/books?id=VyKgAAAAMAAJ&lpg=PA635&pg=PA638#v=onepage&q&f=false

Full Term Intra-Abdominal Pregnancy
http://www.archive.org/download/FullTermIntra-abdominalPregnancy/Abdominal_Pregnancy.pdf

Full Term Intra-abdominal Pregnancy with Living Mother and Child
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2602194/pdf/yjbm00484-0042.pdf

Full term secondary abdominal pregnancy
http://www.theprofesional.com/article/2006/Vol-13-No-02/Prof-1065.pdf

Full-term Abdominal Pregnancy with Survival of Mother and Child
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2160918/pdf/brmedj04044-0013a.pdf

Intrahepatic pregnancy: sonography and CT findings
http://www.ajronline.org/content/173/5/1377.full.pdf

Intrauterine to intraabdominal pregnancy: ultrasound demonstration
http://www.ajronline.org/content/133/1/132.full.pdf

Late Ectopic Pregnancy: With special reference to intraligamentous pregnancy
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2641109/pdf/jnma00721-0032.pdf

Live abdominal pregnancy presenting as massive rectal bleeding
http://pmj.bmj.com/content/61/718/759.full.pdf

MR Imaging and MR Angiography of an Abdominal Pregnancy with Placental Infarction
http://www.ajronline.org/content/177/6/1305.full

MR imaging of a viable full-term abdominal pregnancy
http://www.ajronline.org/content/145/2/407.full.pdf

Place of culdocentesis in the diagnosis of ectopic pregnancy
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1699296/pdf/brmedj02271-0028.pdf

Primary hepatic pregnancy
http://pmj.bmj.com/content/61/719/831.full.pdf

Rudimentary Horn Pregnancy with Neonatal and Maternal Survival
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2537165/pdf/jnma00019-0085.pdf

Sonographic Findings in Advanced Abdominal Pregnancy
http://www.ajronline.org/content/137/6/1259.full.pdf

Sonographic findings in abdominal pregnancy
http://www.ajronline.org/content/147/5/1043.full.pdf

Subperitoneal placenta accreta succenturiate in the case of a successful near-term extrauterine abdominal pregnancy
http://www.daytonc.com/abdominalpregnancyarticle.pdf

Term abdominal pregnancy with healthy newborn: A case report
http://www.ajol.info/index.php/gmj/article/view/68933/56992

Term asymptomatic abdominal pregnancy with good maternal and perinatal outcome: a case report
http://www.sid.ir/En/VEWSSID/J_pdf/85120000215.pdf

The forgotten child—a case of heterotopic, intra-abdominal and intrauterine pregnancy carried to term
http://humrep.oxfordjournals.org/content/14/5/1372.full

The treatment of abdominal pregnancies
http://archive.samj.org.za/1963%20VOL%20XXXVII%20Jan-Jun/Articles/06%20June/1.3%20THE%20TREATMENT%20OF%20ABDOMINAL%20PREGNANCIES,%20Martin%20G.%20Shelton.pdf

Two Cases of Early Secondary Abdominal Pregnancy with Massive Intra-Abdominal Hæmorrhages
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1562056/pdf/canmedaj00522-0133.pdf

Unruptured postdated pregnancy with a live fetus in a noncommunicating rudimentary horn
http://www.indianjmedsci.org/text.asp?2007/61/1/23/29594