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May 13, 2008

Abortion or Life?

From the Telegraph:

The parents of a premature baby born below the legal abortion limit spoke of their 'miracle' after they took her home for the first time on Monday.

Ellie-Suzanne Fish was born four months premature on September 3 last year, five days before the current limit of 24 weeks.

She weighed 1lb 4.7oz and was given just a 10 to 15 per cent chance of survival then had to endure three operations, including two on the brain.

But she is now nine months old and a healthy 14lbs, and has been allowed out of hospital for the first time.

Ellie-Suzanne was born before the day the law recognized her as having any rights or being a person.  So what was her status once born?  She suddenly became a person with rights because her location has changed?  Births like her shows the arbitrariness of the current law trying to draw lines after conception.

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"Births like her shows the arbitrariness of the current law trying to draw lines after conception."

Amen and amen!

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