The Daily Mail reports that a baby, Lexie Slater-Folksman, was born prematurely at 23 weeks, defying the current 24 week limit for abortions. Although initially she was put on a ventilator, six months after her birth, she weighs a healthy 8lb. Her parents have said that Lexie’s case proves that the abortion laws are outdated and should be changed. Parliament debated abortion last May, but failed to change abortion laws despite widespread calls for a massive restriction in the law.
Lexie’s mother is reported to have said: ”It just shows how outmoded our laws on abortion are. Some mothers-to-be would be able to legally terminate their pregnancy at 23 weeks – yet my Lexie is living proof babies can survive being born so prematurely. I never realised a baby would be so well developed at 23 weeks and they do have a chance of life.”
January 12th, 2009 at 9:14 am
Hi, my wife gave birth to our daughter Lucy three days ago, at 36 weeks so she’s four weeks early. The staff at Montrose infirmary are doing a good job of looking after and because she’s so small (5 lb 6 oz), she’s very fragile looking, even more so than a full term baby.
It feels injust that back in July we could have aborted her when she was even more fragile and gorgeous looking. It also seems injust that no attempt was made to save her umbilical cord blood which is entirely ethical while so much money is spent on ‘therapeutic’ stem cell research, which is always terminal for the embryo being used. This is no reflection on the unit where she was born (Montrose Royal Infirmary) which was excellent but is rather a national issue.
February 9th, 2009 at 10:39 am
thankyou for letting people read this and it sounds like your daughter is very special and i think that you should thank the doctor at the hospital that she was born at because they saved a babys life
March 2nd, 2009 at 1:06 am
Hi
I recently had a miscarriage and it has made me even more determined that I am anti abortion! I am disgusted that things like live abortions can happen. Where the baby is born live and nothing is done to save them! This recently happened at to a baby at 22wks in Florida.
It is the sickest thing I have ever heard of! I have friends who have had abortions (they were v young and do have children now) I know that one of them regrets it and she says she has to live with the pain every day!
April 28th, 2009 at 9:14 am
Hello
thank you for sharing your wonderful story. I campaigned against abortion throughout my teenage, even to the point of showing footing of aborted foetuses, in an attempt to try and change peoples minds.
When I discovered I was pregnant I faced a lot of problems, but there was no way I was ever going to give my child. I can surely say today that my daughter is the best thing that has ever happened to me.
May 6th, 2009 at 5:26 am
“A person is a person, no matter how small.” It is the same baby at 8 weeks as it is at 38 weeks. The only difference is size. I am now a pro-life author, speaker, and activist, but in 1988 I worked in an abortion clinic in Wichita, Kansas USA where 20 to 24 abortions per week were done, and still are done, on 8-9 month pregnancies. It is barbaric and uncivilized that infants are murdered like this. If any other species on earth murdered almost 1/3 of its young, the scientists would be working hard to find out what was wrong. NO-ONE EVER HAS THE “RIGHT” TO MURDER ANOTHER HUMAN BEING. There is such a crushing culture of death all over the world today. I wonder what will come next.
I am so glad your preemie baby is doing well. God bless you!
May 24th, 2009 at 11:46 am
My daughter Freya was born prematurely in December at 26 weeks, weighing 2lb7oz. She was amazing from the start – tiny fingers and toes, everything perfectly formed, just so small and on a ventilator. The following week, she’d opened her eyes. It breaks my heart and makes me so angry that up to 2 weeks before she was born, she could have been aborted and thrown away as clinical waste. She’s now 11lb 4oz,smiling and cooing like every other baby at her corrected age. She is just a miracle.
With so many forms of contraception, abortion just isn’t necessary or ethical.
May 29th, 2009 at 6:38 pm
Abortion does have it’s place. I had a termination at 24 and a half weeks gestation. My darling son was diagnosed with the most severe form of spina bifida. He was ‘incompatible with life’. His brain and skull didn’t develop much and if I had carried him to term, he may not have survived the birth. If he did, he would be blind and deaf and only live 20 minutes at most, eventually gasping for air as ethically doctors would not give any kind of help. The kindest thing I could do as a mother was stop the enevitable pain and suffering my poor son would have endured. He died peacefully in the womb, safe in the only place he ever knew. There is a place for abortion so please don’t tar everyone with the same brush.
June 1st, 2009 at 12:10 pm
Anna, I heard many stories… One child was supposed to be born and die because he would not survive outside. Guess what…. He did survieved and he’s teenager now… When I was pregnant with my second son doctor told me he would be with down syndrom. I didn’t want to know. I didn’t want to have any tests done, but he had ecogenycal bowel or something… And guess what? All that stress was for nothing. My son is ok. He is sweet, levely, clever, kind, good, amazing. And I praise God for this gift.
Sometimes I thing scan is not always good.
June 1st, 2009 at 9:27 pm
im so sorry for your lose anna. I agree their are limits etc.
although I am pro life, I feel rape victims should have a choice early on and people in your very sad situation should never feel guilty. The trauma of the birth for him would have been a horrible end, he died safe with you, instead of a clinical world.
Have strength.