Posted on 05/08/2015 8:07:17 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
A new study showing that the survival rates of pre-term babies at 22-weeks gestation vary greatly among hospitals could have political implications as the nation debates banning late-term abortions.
The study, "Between-Hospital Variation in Treatment and Outcomes in Extremely Preterm Infants," was published Thursday in the peer-reviewed medical journal The New England Journal of Medicine.
The survival rates of babies born at 22 weeks gestation depend greatly upon the active treatments used at the hospital where they are born, the study found.
The overall survival rates for those babies are 5.1 percent, and 3.4 percent without severe impairment. Those rates increased to 23.1 percent and 15.4 percent, respectively, in hospitals that initiated active treatment.
The use of active treatment by the hospital accounted for 78 percent (75 percent for survival without severe impairment) of the variation in survival rates among hospitals.
The study looked at 5,000 preterm births at 24 hospitals between April 2006 and March 2011. Those hospitals varied greatly in how they dealt with extremely premature births, or those ranging from 22 to 26 weeks gestation. Less than one in four hospitals gave potentially lifesaving treatment to babies born at 22 weeks. The likelihood of treatment increased gradually to the point where most hospitals gave active treatment at 25 or 26 weeks.
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That’s probably why some circles are pushing the idea of post-birth “abortions”.
My twin nephews were born at 23 weeks...and after some time in the NICU, they are now completely healthy in every way.
All their fingers, toes, organs, brain function, sensation of pain, etc. were present and accounted for at birth.
University of Iowa’s hospital was part of this study. When my daughter was there, some of the other kids in the NICU had been born at 23 weeks.
Not all had a happy outcome, but one little girl that was born the same day as Dani did.
RE: That’s probably why some circles are pushing the idea of post-birth “abortions”.
INFANTICIDE and the Euthanizing of the very sick has been endorsed by Peter Singer, Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University, among others.
It will never affect the late term abortion debate because late term abortion is about parental rights, women’s body rights which in the minds of abortion supporters and current courts trump any other fact.
Only in the minds of prolife people does the issue of viability appear to be an issue that they think with stop late term abortions. Abortion supporters know that they are killing a baby, they know that the baby could live outside the womb. They don’t care, it is a non issue to them.
That children, is why this country has late term abortions. Infanticide is not a big deal for the elite.
No way. The leftists are already campaigning to kill FULL-TERM, ALREADY BORN babies who don’t measure up to their parents’ expectations.
My bride’s water broke at 15 weeks. The doctor, and wonderful woman, told us we would lose the baby, but she was not going to do anything to speed things along.
We asked, and received an ultrasound. I saw my little girl’s face, and she looked like her sister.
Later that month, I was talking with an acquaintance over lunch, and the abortion debate came up. This guy didn’t know know what I was going through, or that my bride was still on bed rest with the life of our child hanging in the balance. He said “At 15 weeks, they are just a blob of tissue”. The rest of the table, who knew what I was going through, stepped back. I showed him my little girl’s face, and dared him to restate it.
Dani was born a year ago this month. She made it to 33 weeks, and spent two months in Iowa City’s NICU. She is a giggly, goofy, smiling little girl and a living proof of that miracles happen.
You are right, there those who don’t care. But there are also those who have been fed a ration of lies, and never had to look at the face of a 15 week child in an ultrasound. That man later told me he had to rethink is position on abortion. He makes sure to ask about her any time he is in town. It is easy to be pro death if the children aren’t seen as “real”. It is harder when you see their face.
I can hardly read these preborn columns that dissect their viability rather than their life at conception. Even a seed, a living cell that God Himself knew before we are born, but to man is repellent.
Roe v Wade did not Legalize Abortion if the Fetus was Viable.
Funny how that little factoid has been ignored for over 40 Years.
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