A premature baby who was given little chance of survival when he was born at 23 weeks has celebrated his first birthday.
The case of Lucas Moore will reignite debate over the 24-week time limit for abortions after he suffered no significant long-term health problems, despite weighing just 1lb 1oz at birth.
His parents, Sylvia and Thomas Moore, were told to prepare for a stillbirth after her waters broke 22 weeks into her pregnancy. Doctors said that even if their baby survived, his internal organs would be so weak that he would have no protection from infection.
The couple also claim that they were told they would receive no medical support if the baby weighed less than 1lb.
The people who love to scream “SCIENCE!” all the time generally ignore it when it comes to fetal development and advances in neonatology. Per standard pro-abort talking points, this child was merely a “clump of cells” at the time of his birth. They will view the results of a computer-model prediction on climate as gospel but pretend that a baby isn’t really a baby until some magical, undefined moment.
Twenty four weeks is the cutoff in more than half of the United States. Any attempts to lower that are generally called “restrictive” by pro-abortion lobbyists. They are truly the lunatic fringe of political activists and want to keep pushing the legal abortion period to ever more ghoulish extremes.
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