Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site rruxo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!mhuxn!mhuxr!ulysses!gamma!pyuxww!pyuxv!rruxa!rruxo!vch From: vch@rruxo.UUCP (Kerro Panille) Newsgroups: net.abortion Subject: Re: The Status of the Fetus and Its Rights Message-ID: <316@rruxo.UUCP> Date: Mon, 9-Sep-85 15:50:14 EDT Article-I.D.: rruxo.316 Posted: Mon Sep 9 15:50:14 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 11-Sep-85 04:38:18 EDT References: <436@cmu-cs-spice.ARPA> <1631@pyuxd.UUCP> <1260@brl-tgr.ARPA> Organization: Colony, Pandora Lines: 29 >If Mr. Rosen is saying either that the seven-month fetus cannot be removed at >seven months and be an autonomous human being, he is wrong. Before the days >of sophisticated neonatal life-support equipment and techniques, premature >babies of seven months' gestation did survive -- one of them works right >here in my laboratory. All the fancy equipment did was increase the >proportion of such babies that survive, although not to 100%. "Let's ... When I studied such things as neonatal research (as a sub-topic in a course), "although not to 100%" was a hell of an understatement. When the doctors were able to get a 30% survival rate (at the end of the second trimester), they were overjoyed. (prevoiusly, the survival rate was less than 3%) Any premature baby born before the start of the third trimester are not yet fully developed. (In the third trimester, the fetus is complete and simply gaining size and weight, no more development occurs) If a child is born before the third trimester, it's as good as dead. I belive that the survival rate of secord-trimester babies was less than 1%. -- Vince Hatem ---------------- A Bell Communications Research | UZI |----------|_ _ _\/ T Raritan River Software Systems Center | |----------| /\ & 444 Hoes Lane ---------------- ROGER GUTS T 4D-360 / /\ DON'T NEED NO STINKIN' Piscataway, NJ 08854 / / TIES (201) 699-4869 /-----/ ...ihnp4!rruxo!vch TRUE GRIT MYSTERIES - The detective series for those who NEVER eat quiche! (WARNING - MAY BE EMOTIONALLY DISTURBING TO HAMSTER LOVERS)