909 British Babies Born and Survive Under 24-Week Legal Age Limit for Abortion
The so-called “viability limit” of 24 weeks for legal abortion in Britain has come under question since Department of Health data have shown that hundreds of children survive being born below this limit. In 2005 alone, 909 children were born in Britain between 22 and 24 weeks gestation. Of those, 250 survived for at least a year, the Telegraph reports.
Meanwhile, Britain’s foremost pro-life group, the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) maintains that politically, efforts to lower the age limit for abortion would backfire, leaving virtually no restrictions on early term abortions, which comprise the great majority of “terminations” in Britain. Of the 201,173 abortions in England and Wales in 2006, only 1,262 were at 22 weeks or more . . .