Premature Baby Study Stokes Row on Murdering Them by Abortion Past the Limits of Viability

The limits of viability for the survival of premature babies appear to have been reached, a team from the University of Leicester has concluded. Their new study appears in the British Medical Journal online the week before Parliament is due to debate the time limit on abortion. The increasing survival of very premature babies has led some people to suggest that the limit should be lowered from the present 24 weeks. Significant improvements in the survival of babies born at 24 and 25 weeks. Of 497 babies admitted to intensive care in 2000–05, 236 (47 per cent) survived to discharge compared with 174 of 490 (36 per cent) in 1994–95. The Trent region is reasonably representative of Britain, say the authors.
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Posted by Editor at May 9, 2008 03:47 AM