This baby was aborted due to genetic problems. Not saying I would do the same, but isn't that they ONLY reason you are allowed to have a late term abortion? The article doesn't go into detail about the problems with the fetus but it may not have survived anyway. Some people would rather not continue a pregnancy if it meant carrying the baby to term, giving birth and then having the baby die three days later.

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Anonymous wrote:I have a relative who works in a NICU. She said she could never make sense of the fact that they would be spending tens -- if not hundreds -- of thousands of dollars keeping pre-term babies alive in one end of the hospital, while they were aborting babies of the same gestational age in the other end.

In some third world countries the number of incubators is limited and doctors have to choose whose premie is worth the effort of saving

I love such random comments...

Anonymous wrote:I have a relative who works in a NICU. She said she could never make sense of the fact that they would be spending tens -- if not hundreds -- of thousands of dollars keeping pre-term babies alive in one end of the hospital, while they were aborting babies of the same gestational age in the other end.

In some third world countries the number of incubators is limited and doctors have to choose whose premie is worth the effort of saving

Anonymous wrote:I have a relative who works in a NICU. She said she could never make sense of the fact that they would be spending tens -- if not hundreds -- of thousands of dollars keeping pre-term babies alive in one end of the hospital, while they were aborting babies of the same gestational age in the other end.

This is truly sad!

I have a relative who works in a NICU. She said she could never make sense of the fact that they would be spending tens -- if not hundreds -- of thousands of dollars keeping pre-term babies alive in one end of the hospital, while they were aborting babies of the same gestational age in the other end.

Anonymous wrote:Remember when Obama was one of the only members to vote against the bill which would mandate giving babies born alive after an abortion proper medical care?

Happened at Christ Hospital in IL.

He was one of the only members to vote against it.

You are misrepresenting Obama's position here. While Obama was in the Illinois Senate, he voted against a a bill that would give aborted fetuses that showed signs of life full legal protections even if doctors believed they could not survive. Obama's vote was in committee and the bill was defeated in that committee. However, Obama's position was not in support of withholding medical care in such circumstances. Rather, the bill would have impacted the legality of abortions in Illinois. Indeed, the bill was later amended to make clear that it would not affect the legality of abortion and was passed into law. Obama was not in the Illinois Senate at that time, but says he would have supported it.

Your claim that Obama was "one of the only members to vote against it" is disputable. Obama was in the majority, otherwise the bill would have passed. So, he certainly was not one of the only members of the committee.

Anonymous wrote:Doesn't change my opinion about abortion rights one iota.

OP here. I'm not against choice. I just wish we were moral human beings, that's all.

We've reached a whole new low in this generation

Anonymous wrote:Remember when Obama was one of the only members to vote against the bill which would mandate giving babies born alive after an abortion proper medical care?

Happened at Christ Hospital in IL.

He was one of the only members to vote against it.

This baby was nearly 6 mos. old (gestational). VERY few people condone this in the absence of exceptional circumstances.
RE: your statement, please give the full context of the bill before people judge.

Remember when Obama was one of the only members to vote against the bill which would mandate giving babies born alive after an abortion proper medical care?

Happened at Christ Hospital in IL.

He was one of the only members to vote against it.

Doesn't change my opinion about abortion rights one iota.

And as a country we are ok with late term abortions, horrible. Why doesn't the media pick up stories like this instead of ones raising anti choice concerns.

OP here. I had a fiance who was a survivor of an abortion. He was the strongest man I've ever seen in my life, in every sense of the word.

I'm pro-choice, but oh my god from that article:

In 2005 a baby boy in Manchester was born alive at 24 weeks after surviving three attempts to abort him. He is now a five-year-old schoolboy.

And how horrid for the baby in the article to have suffered so much, which it no doubt did.

Ugh, though I am pro-choice, but certainly NOT for second trimester babies.

Personally I'd never get an abortion, under no circumstances!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/7646540/Baby-boy-survives-for-nearly-two-days-after-abortion.html

May this little soul rest in peace.

I cry every time I think about the story of Gianna Jessen...