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- From: kevin@rotag.mi.org (Kevin Darcy)
- Subject: Re: Darcy and viability as important dividing line.
- Message-ID: <1993Jan6.023940.23790@rotag.mi.org>
- Organization: Who, me???
- References: <1992Dec29.212137.22298@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <C041BC.GtD@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <1993Jan1.042143.28771@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 02:39:40 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan1.042143.28771@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> mcochran@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mark A. Cochran) writes:
- >In article <C041BC.GtD@news.cso.uiuc.edu> parker@ehsn17.cen.uiuc.edu (Robert S. Parker) writes:
- >
- >>"viability" is medically defined (roughly) as the point after which a
- >>developing fetus could survive outside the womb. It may also require that
- >>the fetus could continue to grow "normally" although special care and treatment
- >>may be needed. It is generally considered to be sometime around the start of
- >>the third trimester (I think). It is not an exact time, it is a general range
- >>in which it is usually found to occur in those born prematurely. (They look at
- >>children born prematurely at various times and compare the development at birth
- >>to the statistical survival rates to come up with an average figure.)
- >>
- >In practice, 26 weeks is considered to be resonably viable.
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- OK, I'll go with that then.
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- Do I hear Galen still whining?
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- - Kevin
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