Baby in Cooler Lives After Abortion Then Dies

(Jerusalem, Israel) A 23-week-old girl fetus was aborted and placed in a morgue refrigerator. Doctors had pronounced her dead.

The baby, weighing not quite 1 pound, 4 ounces (600 grams) at birth, spent at least five hours inside a hospital's refrigerated storage unit before her parents, who had taken her to be buried, began noticing some movement Monday.

"We unwrapped her and felt she was moving. We didn't believe it at first. Then she began holding my mother's hand, and then we saw her open her mouth," said Faiza Magdoub, 26, the baby's mother.

The girl had been pronounced dead several hours earlier, after doctors at Western Galilee hospital in northern Israel were forced to abort her mother's pregnancy because internal bleeding had occurred.

Sadly, the miracle did not endure. The baby girl died early Tuesday, less than a day after being aborted.