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Posted on 02/26/2007 2:48:28 AM PST by markomalley
LONDON (UPI) — Pressure is growing in Britain to shorten the 24-week limit on abortion, with medical experts and church leaders saying it is outdated.
The Sunday Telegraph reported that critics of the current 24-week limit cite medical advances that would allow the survival of up to 2,000 fetuses that are aborted each year.
Recently published photos of Amilla Taylor -- the world's most premature surviving infant, born at just 10 ounces -- have fueled the call for a review of abortion laws. Advocates for a review are calling for the time limit to be shortened to 20 weeks.
Professor Stuart Campbell -- a consultant at the Create Health Clinic and formerly head of obstetrics and gynecology at King's College School of Medicine -- said a change would be healthier for women who are seeking pregnancy termination.
"To me it seems utterly illogical that, in adjacent wards, one doctor is struggling to save a baby delivered at 23 weeks while another is aborting a healthy baby of the same age," he said.
The Telegraph reported that in 2004, a record 185,400 women had pregnancies terminated in England and Wales.
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God works in mysterious ways. Amilla Taylor lived to teach many that life is a gift not a choice.
The noose is tightening on the abortion business.
The limit is 9 months now, isn't it?
Not if Peter Singer had his way...
Bumptious!
That baby girl will do more in her life then any of us can imagine right now and this is just a taste of it!
The increase in medical technology means that a parlimentary debate on abortion has been on the cards for some time.
Whats needed is independent ultrasound evaluations by companies totaly unaffiliated with the abortion industry of fetal age , many "2nd" trimester abortions are actually 3rd trimester as the abortionists underage the babies to get around state restrictions such as in Florida.
My 92 year old father in law died on Saturday. He has not been "viable" for several years. He was blind and suffered from dementia.
He could not have survived w/o the life support that we provided him. Did he cease being a human being?
I am thankful for any progress at all…
Not satisfied, but thankful.
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And it starts!! Yeah!
If the Republicans were smart, they would work for a ban on abortions after viability.
It would change the debate on whether a three week embryo is a human being to whether a baby who can live outside the womb has the same protections as other babies.
I can understand the incremental approach. But, istm that nothing short of the reversal of Roe will ever allow for legislation (at the state level) to protect unborn humans.
Viability is a moving target... that continually moves in OUR direction.
We probably could have gotten protection after viability years ago, if we had focused the debate on babies who could survive outside the womb.
And instead of over 1 million abortions each year, we might have half (?) today?
In Britain, too. I didn't realize the abortion issue was still open to debate over there.
Amilla Taylor: The "Rosa Parks" of her generation!
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