Newborn ethics
16th Nov 2006, 17:21 GMT
It is high time that the profession debated the 24 weeks upper limit for terminating pregnancy by the 1967 Abortion Act. To be discussing treatment of babies born after 22 weeks of gestation while neglecting the terms of that obsolete legislation is a glaring anomaly.
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