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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
How many libs regret the baby survived?
Wanna make a lib squirm... ask one to comment on the wonderful news.
I only wish God had brought us Amilla before the 2006 elections, so that the Kansas Attorney General's race could have been impacted by it.
"Are you a man or a woman?"
Woman. Why?
"Matthew 19:8 Jesus said, "Moses provided for divorce as a concession to your hard heartedness, but it is not part of God's original plan."
You said that God provided for divorce, not Moses.
See my post 70, if you have a moment.
"See my post 70, if you have a moment."
I saw that. Thank you for that comment.
I did want to respond to the reply since somehow the gender seemed to matter to the respondent. I agree, however, that gender does not matter. I just wanted to ensure that the person who asked the question knew that both genders will have advocates against them.
"I've seen pro-choice Freepers, but never outright pro-abortion.
Perhaps I'm mistaken."
Perhaps you are. To be pro-choice is to have a callous regard for the life of a tiny baby. One is either for protecting an innocent life or for destroying an innocent life. Pro-choicers are not about protecting life, therefore they are pro-abortion.
Have you ever attended the Southern Christian Writers' Conference in Tuscaloosa? It's held every June and is usually wonderful.
No I have not. When I lived in AL for two plus decades I wasn't writing. I shall check into it!
This past year Terri Blackstock and Vanessa Davis Griggs were two of the speakers - ones that I can recall at the moment.
I was going to say - what species is he measuring? That distance on me is exactly 6 inches!
Wrong again
Pro-Choice = I am in favor of the choice to allow children to be killed by abortion.
Stop with the euphemism of "Pro-Choice" that sanitizes the above reality. If you don't like the word children put in the phrase "human beings"
I was asking a different poster.
*ha ha * did you get out a tape measure too??? :)
I have a ruler on my desk, so it was a quick check. 9.5 is an orangutan.
Wanna make a lib squirm... ask one to comment on the wonderful news.
Instead of them commenting, offer them congratulations on their "successful" abortion. See if that garners a reaction.
Of course they are a person at conception. What else could they be? I agree, no matter when the pregnancy is terminated, the result is one dead baby. I think most people who try to nuance the abortion issue have never really sat down and thought it totally through. They are in a kind of denial that won't allow themselves to see the horror that is the act of abortion.
-----"Bwahaha, you're a liar, that's all. Just like most of the pro-abortion people I've talked to, twisting, dissembling, lying, and mischaracterizing when cornered. Someone else has already told you that you are not honest enough to discuss with. I think she's wiser than me, so I'll bid you adieu also."-------
SPOT-ON BROTHER
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