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February 21, 2007
World's Youngest Baby Leaves Hospital In Miami
Topics: Abortion
Amillia Taylor was born at the age of 22 weeks and six days, weighing only 10 oz. Her exact age is known because she was conceived by in vitro fertilization. Yesterday, four months later and weighing all of four pounds, Amilliia was released from Baptist Children's Hospital in Miami, Florida. Jill at Pro Life Blogs notes the irony of the world's youngest known baby to survive being born in Florida, the very state so much in the news lately for standing by as babies older than this little girl have been aborted alive and either purposefully killed or simply allowed to die.
If you think that this will have any effect on the abortion fanatics, don't be so deluded. You either see and believe that life itself is a miracle, or you don't. Abortion supporters will always support death over life, and love to claim that preemies have no rights because they cannot live independently. Even though, as Jill points out in her post, a (full term) newborn can't live independently either, or a one-year-old, or two-year-old, or even a three-year-old. There are many older children and adults who cannot live independently either. The question of independence has no bearing on our unalienable right to life, and the right of children like Amillia to live.
"Survival of babies that is less than 22 weeks of gestation is close to zero, if not zero," said Dr. Phuket Tantavit, who specializes in neonatology.The medical standard is not even to resuscitate a 22-week baby, so when Sonja Taylor knew she was going into labor in October after just 19 weeks, she lied about the baby's term.
Doctors worked to delay the birth, but nine days later, they had no choice but to perform an emergency C-section, thinking they were delivering a 23-week baby.
Posted by Richard at February 21, 2007 9:24 AM
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