Drawing the Line She lifts so slowly, the door to his high-tech womb, her own aching, for its emptiness. His hands flutter and feet twitch, she cannot interpret his fetal dance, a foreign language spoken too soon. (DeGroff) Thirty-five years ago when a premature infant was born, he was placed in a warming bed. Then, if he lived, he lived; if he died, he died. Today, because of immediate intensive care and advanced medical technology, …showed first 75 words of 1742 total…

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