a baby born after just 21 weeks survives :)

[maranta]

Extremely Premature Baby Readies to Go Home

Amillia Sonja Taylor was born on Oct. 24, 2006, after just 21 weeks and 6 days of gestation. Full-term pregnancies last between 37 and 40 weeks

Comments

[mary_goodnight]

I wish that were true, but at this point it becomes a "quality of life" decision. Choicers don't want to give birth to a tiny baby that might have problems. Change blob of cells to unwanted burdon on society and you have a new argument.

I had this discussion with my pro-choice aunt.

I'm happy younger babies are living though, I was a teeny baby too :-)

[neemarita]

Yay teeny babies! I was 26 weeks.

It's amazing she's doing that well.

[filthy_lily]

I really think that, sooner or later, our society will decide abortion is a dinosaur that we no longer want to accept.

This can only happen when people stop believing that abortion equals women's rights and that prevention and abolition of the reasons for abortion are what is truly pro-women. As long as legal abortion continues we will never fix the actual social problems that cause it and that is very anti-women.

This child being born is truly amazing and it does help make us question what is viable but I can only imagine how many babies die for every one preemie that lives.

Also, how have you been? You haven't been around in ages! :)

[5010]

Yes. The way I see it, we are all blobs of cells. Amillia puts a face to the gazillion blobs living inside of pregnant moms worldwide, painting them all unmistakably human. She demonstrates how the meaning of the legal term 'person' is really discriminatory on the basis of location, not viability.

One thing that bothers me, though, is her origins in IVF. How many siblings were sacrificed into frozen limbo in the process?