Medical advances call abortion law into question

An NHS Consultant has said that around three in five babies born at 23 weeks at his hospital over the past six years have lived. He is also aware of two babies born at 22 weeks who have survived.

"The conversations we are having with parents are very different from the ones we were having ten years ago. Twenty three [weeks] is in essence the new 24. Things have shifted so much that most parents tend to be up for saying, 'let’s give it a go'", Dr Martin Ward-Platt reported.

The news has re-ignited calls for a lowering of the upper time limit for abortion which currently stands at 24 weeks - except for babies with severe abnormality which can be aborted up to birth.

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