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March 9, 2010
Premature baby born at 25 weeks weighing half a pound survives
Topics: Abortion, Life Issues, Political News and commentariesI saw this the other day and forgot to get back to it for posting. But it's interesting enough to still post, albeit a bit belatedly. Officials from Göttingen hospital where the baby was born checked all available records of premature births worldwide, and were unable to find a viable birth of a boy at a lower weight. The smallest boy previously recorded weighed 10.4 ounces. Three girls - including one born in the US at just 244 grams - had survived lower birth weights.
Via the Telegraph:
[...] The baby, who doctors dubbed "Tom Thumb" was less than the length of a sheet of A-4 paper and weighed a fraction over 9.7 ounces (275 grams) when he was born by Caesarean section 15 weeks prematurely at the University of Medicine at Göttingen in western Germany in June 2009.Worthy of note here is that in the view of Barack Obama, "Tom Thumb" could just have well been aborted. As an Illinois state senator, Barack Obama twice opposed legislation to define as "persons" babies who survive late-term abortions. In a speech on the Illinois Senate floor Barack said he could not accept that babies wholly emerged from their mother's wombs are "persons," and thus deserving of equal protection under the Constitution's 14th Amendment.[...] Now, nine months after his birth, doctors have allowed the unnamed boy's parents to take him to the family home in Eighsfeld, central Germany, after ruling that he is strong enough to survive.
Posted by Richard at March 9, 2010 8:16 AM
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