I’ve found this in only two papers this morning, despite its importance as a scientific contribution to the coming debate on the abortion bill: in short, despite claims to the contrary from anti-abortion rights people (who are adopting the American tactic of trying to nibble away at rights in Britain) there has been no increase in the survival rates of extremely premature babies born before 24 weeks (the current abortion limit).
The Guardian presents it straight: “The EPICure 2 report, produced by a study group of neonatal experts, is based on analysis of all severely premature births across England in 2006. It found 40% of infants born before 23 weeks die on the labour ward, an increase of 8% since the last study was conducted in 1995. Of those who survived labour nearly 75% died in neo-natal units.”
The Telegraph, after a bit of twisting and turning, has to report the same thing.
It appears not to be reported in the Times or the Indy, so far as I’ve found.
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