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- From: cbrand@cac.washington.edu (Carol Brand)
- Subject: Re: Good News from a Premie!
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- Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 21:16:46 GMT
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- In article <BuF5wC.7DG.2@cs.cmu.edu> garvin+@cs.cmu.edu (Susan Garvin) writes:
- >Your point wasn't that she was tiny, though, Suzanne, it
- >was that she was of an earlier gestational age than was
- >previously thought to be viable.
- >
- >I join the rest of t.a. in awaiting your comments on the
- >gestational age estimated by the doctors who attended her.
- >Could you also provide us with the source of your erroneous
- >estimate?
-
- I am currently taking birthing classes and in our first session, the
- class took a tour of the maternity wards as well as the infant intensive
- care unit. They (I was unable to attend) got to see a premie who was
- born at 26 weeks. This brought up the subject of how old babies have to
- be to survive. The instructor, commented that to her knowledge, the
- youngest child to ever survive was born at 20/21 weeks down in Australia.
- In the US, a little girl in California was born around 23/24 weeks and
- had just finally gone home with her parents.
-
- As more and more premies are saved, I think we will all have to do some
- serious thinking about acceptable cutoffs for abortions. In the state of
- Washington, a woman can have an abortion through the 24th week. It seems
- rather hypocritical to have a doctor in one room fighting to save a life
- while in another a doctor is ending one.
-
- -Carol
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