Posted on 02/22/2007 4:27:05 PM PST by wagglebee
FLORIDA, United States, February 22, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The survival of pre-term baby Amillia Taylor, at 21 weeks gestation the youngest know child to survive premature birth, has produced an increase in media debate on the abortion issue.
Mainstream media outlets in the United States have acknowledged that the baby’s life raises “big questions” about legal abortion, . Weighing less than 10oz and just nine ½ inches long, Amillia was born one month earlier than the date considered viable for most babies, 25 weeks. About half of the babies born at 25 weeks will survive. Abortion laws are often based on an assumption of viability, with the cut-off being set at the point where babies would be likely to survive outside the womb.
ABC anchor Charles Gibson made the account of Amillia’s survival the top story on World News Tuesday night, calling the baby, “A tiny miracle that raises big questions in the debate over abortion, ” according to a blog report by Brent Baker posted on NewsBusters.com Feb.20.
“The fact that she has survived and grown to more than four pounds, and is about to go home, is a miracle, yes, but a miracle that may have an effect on the debate over abortion. And it may change what people think about life.”
Dan Harris, pro-abortion reporter for ABC, pointed out that in most of the country, Amillia could have been legally aborted well past the point of her birth.
“Only one state, North Carolina, explicitly prohibits aborting a fetus at the point at which Amillia was born; 12 states permit abortion at that point; 23 states leave it to a doctor to decide whether the fetus is viable; and in 14 states, there are no laws on the books that would prevent such an abortion.”
Tony Perkins, with the Family Research Council, was interviewed by ABC for the story. “As we see, with the advancement of medical technology, we have children surviving outside the womb younger and younger,” Perkins said. “It really brings into focus how valuable and how precious this human life really is.”
Now weighing a healthy four lbs, Amillia is due to be released from hospital within the next few days. Apart from some respiratory and digestive difficulties, her doctors said she has done remarkably well.
“She told us early on from the start that she was a fighter and she wanted to be here,” said Dr. William Smalling from the Baptist Children’s Hospital in Kendall, Florida.
Comments posted on Newsbusters pointed out that at 35 weeks from conception, Amillia is still three weeks from her natural birth date and could legally be aborted in many states if she had remained in her mother‘s womb.
See full coverage posted on NewsBusters.com:
http://newsbusters.org/node/10954
See previous LifeSiteNews coverage:
“Non-viable” Baby Girl Survives Birth at 21 Weeks, Weighing Under 10oz
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2007/feb/07022003.html
What a self-righteous idiot. You have not clue as to what this debate is really about.
All we can expect from you is to bloviate about how evil abortion is while offering no answers as to handling the issue in real life.
Guess you would propose locking women in the pen for 8 months to ensure they can't terminate their pregnancies.
Yeah, we need more people like you in charge.
Your obtuseness is fascinating to watch.
Obtuse this!
"However, this is merely the culture of death's smokescreen, they BELIEVE in killing anyone at anytime that a marginally passable reason can be put forward."
Yes..the real reason is inconvenience, regret, self-centeredness.
The viability issue is a smokescreen.
I challenge you to show me one thing I've lied about.
You can't.
You are so desperate to refute the facts I posted all you can do is call people names.
I'm more honest than you can EVER hope to be.
You can't handle the truth.
Haha, you're a gem! To discuss the issue of self-defense didn't suit the death cultist, so he decides we aren't acknowledging him. What an evening!
I've cornered your sorry butt on this more than once and all you can do is resort to personal insults and wild accusations.
I'm more honest than you will ever live to be.
What a cowardly response.
You think we can't read or challenge you on this?
Not many of them, but they're here.
There is not a thing in his or her post that is untrue, so it matters not if this Freeper is a man. woman, hermaphrodite or wolfman from Vega Six.
Seems to me you're deploying the emo card because there are no fact cards available to your side. This is especially true when we are discussing a child who will go a total of 19 weeks outside the womb during which she would be a medical waste bag candidate according to the rules your side has imposed on us.
As for the difference between pro-abortion and pro-choice, it is tiny if it exists at all. Imagine the guy who says, "I'm not personally in favor of drunk driving, but I won't vote for anybody who would ban it." What would you call him?
Get a book by Peter Bowerman called "The Well-Fed Self-Publisher." Bowerman's awesome.
See my post 71. Let's see him say that the guy in my example is not pro-drunk driving.
You say he didn't hit a nerve...then you flail about like a wildebeest who has a lion chomping on its flank.
What other classes of people should we allow to be killed just because we won't be able to stop all their deaths?
Actually, if you knew the Bible as well as you think you do, you'd know He did. When He condemned sexual immorality, he used the word "porneia." It means illicit sexual intercourse, and includes "adultery, fornication, homosexuality, lesbianism, intercourse with animals etc." according to Thayer and Smith's New Testament Greek Lexicon. Interestingly, in chapter 7 Mark notes that Jesus was declaring all the foods condemned in the Torah to be permissible, and then in the next breath Jesus roundly condemns the sex acts that were condemned in the Torah.
just thought I'd fix that one little thing :) Thanks for your response! I never want to heap guilt on someone who has had an abortion, or allowed for someone else to have one - with that said - I just don't think we can justify for the 'what about' scenarios that always get played over and over here....
If you support a legal condition that enables 1.5 million murders a year, but you think you are pro-life, then I guess a guy who wants to leglaize arson is pro-fire safety.
Yep, I feel sad for women who choose abortion, but virtually none of them have any problems that a child should die to "solve."
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