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Families, doctors, and chaplains must now face issues of life and death. \u201cThe big question today,&#8221; observes Dr. John Lantos, a pediatric bioethicist at Children\u2019s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, &#8220;is how many survive without devastating neurologic impairments or other chronic medical problems?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Modern medicine now allows premature infants to survive, but at what cost? \u201cThe big question today,&#8221; observes Dr. John Lantos, a pediatric bioethicist at Children\u2019s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri, is how many survive without devastating neurologic impairments or other chronic medical problems?\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/2015\/05\/29\/april-11-2014-micro-preemies-ethics\/22686\/\" class=\"more\">More <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":103,"featured_media":22706,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6569],"tags":[1049,17750,17702,1064],"class_list":["post-22686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videocast","tag-abortion","tag-kansas","tag-premature-babies","tag-pro-life","topics-ethics","topics-faith-and-spirituality","topics-health-and-medicine"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>April 11, 2014 ~ Micro Preemie Ethics | May 29, 2015 | Religion &amp; 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