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Monday, April 23, 2007
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Is It a Baby or a Death Row Inmate?

I don't blog about abortion much.  It's one of those topics where you really just can't win.  People have their viewpoint, and that's generally the end of it.  Rarely do people give ground.  But with that said, even though I already touched on this last week, I'm going to blog about it again.  This time I was reading this article from the UK:

One in 30 babies aborted for medical reasons is born alive, a study has found.

They lived for an average of 80 minutes - although in some cases foetuses survived for over six hours.

Most of the babies were born between 20 and 24 weeks of pregnancy, but some had been in the womb for as little as 17 weeks.
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Most of the abortions studied were medical abortions. These involve a women being given a series of pills, taken in two doses two days apart.
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From 22 weeks, the tablets should be preceded by a lethal injection into the baby's heart to ensure the baby is dead before the procedure goes any further.

If these babies are born alive, it suggests they weren't given the heart-stopping injection - perhaps because the doctor thought it would have been too traumatic for the mother. The figures follow several studies which show that babies born at 23 and 24 weeks are capable of surviving.
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Babies born alive after abortion are entitled to medical care. However, anti-abortion campaigners claim that some are so unwanted, they are simply left to die.

A couple of pills, and then a lethal injection.  That's how you treat a condemned murderer... not a baby.  And it is a baby at that point.  I've seen babies at 24 weeks in a NICU.  My aunt works tirelessly to save those that others would seemingly throw away.

You can debate the merits of the morning after pill all you want.  But at some point in time in the development of a child in the womb, you have to draw a line and say enough is enough.  Even if you're pro-abortion, you have to admit that there is a difference between a newly fertilized egg that's just implanted itself in a uterus, and this:

The court cited one nurse's account of this procedure. The doctor, she said, "delivered the baby's body and arms -- everything but the head." At that point, she said, "The baby's little fingers were clasping and unclasping, and his little feet were kicking. Then the doctor stuck the scissors in the back of his head, and the baby's arms jerked out... The doctor opened up the scissors, stuck a high-powered suction tube into the opening, and sucked the baby's brains out."

And that's all I have to say about that.

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