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Old 21-05-2008, 16:54   #19
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Re: Abortion limit....Rejected!

Absolutely agree Less.

Would like to see a few statistics on this, have found some such as:-

88% of abortions in England and Wales were under 13 weeks.
Only 2% 23/24 weeks.
Scotland much higher for under 13 weeks.

These were 2005, sure if I googled more could find recent figures.

I suspect that the 2% were split into a few catagories, such as women who discovered they had some type of illness that could be life threatening if the pregnancy had proceeded/abnormal foetus, but some, I would think were young women who were too scared to admit to themselves that this is what was happening to them and tried to bury their heads in the sand before it became apparent. The two former assumptions would be my decision for keeping it at 24 weeks.

There have been quite a few cases of premature babies surviving this period, and the tales of the foetus being alive and then waiting until death occured are quite horrendous.

Think down to 22 weeks may have been sensible, apart from that, have not objection to abortion.
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