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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't understand why people get so worked up about saving unwanted pregnancies. There are plenty of children and adults that are in need of saving; it just seems extravagant to expend such energy on a fetus.
That said, there has been a fair amount of misinformation in this thread. 22 wk babies can't breathe. If they do, the dates are off. In DC abortions are legal to 24 wks. However there is no medical facility willing to perform them. You can get a termination for medical reasons up until 22 wks. I know because I had one. And I would like to add that my baby's condition was not fatal, but would have caused him to suffer for the rest of his life. I chose to terminate because I could not give him the kind of life I wanted him to have. I do not regret my decision and I would never have allowed him to be adopted and spend his life suffering with another family.[/quote]

You're wrong. There's plenty of documentation about 22 weekers surviving birth. If term can have a window of up to 6 weeks why viability can't?[/quote]
There most certainly is not. You are misinformed and are spreading lies. There are a couple of isolated incidents of 23 weekers living and for the most part dying painfully within weeks. The lungs are simply too immature. Once you get past 24 or 25 wks you start to see more babies survive, but many don't.  I really don't understand why ypu say viability must have ve a six wk window. Term is 38 wks, do you really think the last four months of pregnancy are unnecessary? [/quote]

Wrong.

Twenty-five percent of babies born at 23 weeks survive now. Fifty percent of babies born at 24 weeks. I'm the poster whose daughter was born at nearly 23w.
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/magazine/articles/2008/04/27/extreme_preemies/?page=full
[b]at least half of babies born at 24 weeks survive. He explained that at the Floating Hospital for Children at Tufts Medical Center (like most of the specialized newborn intensive care units in Boston), about one-quarter of babies born at 23 weeks survive. [/b]
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