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Originally Posted by zinglebarb
well I know for a fact they still terminate after a foetus is viable. A friend of my ex wife gave birth at 22 weeks and the child survived at that time they still terminated at 24 weeks. I do not know if thats still the case
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Lets conveniently ignore the following shall we? While we're feeling righteous and using a single case of 22 weeks to show how awful 24 weeks is...
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Originally Posted by http://www.tommys.org/media/statistics/key-statistics/premature-birth-statistics.htm
Survival rates
Babies born at 23 weeks have a 17% chance of survival
Babies born at 24 weeks have a 39% chance of survival
Babies born at 25 weeks have a 50% chance of survival
From 32 weeks onwards, most babies are able to survive with the help of medical Technology [EPICure data]
Outcomes
1 in 10 premature babies will develop a permanent disability such as lung disease, cerebral palsy, blindness or deafness.
50% of premature babies born before the 26th week of gestation are disabled, a quarter severely so. (Fowler GA. Preemie problems: the sobering statistics. US News World Reports 2000; vol 129: pp56).
Of children born before 26 weeks' gestation, results in 241 of the surviving children at six years (early school age) indicate a high level of disability as follows:
* 22% severe disability (defined as cerebral palsy but not walking, low cognitive scores, blindness, profound deafness)
* 24% moderate disability (defined as cerebral palsy but walking, IQ/cognitive scores in the special needs range, lesser degree of visual or hearing impairment)
* 34% mild disability (defined as low IQ/cognitive score, squint, requiring glasses)
* 20% no problems
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Tommy's, that well known pro-abortion organisation.
If your ex-wife's friend's baby is perfectly healthy, then fantastic, she managed to beat the odds, just don't try using her as an argument to suggest that because her baby was ok at 22 weeks, most babies will be.