Her minuscule feet poking pathetically through a doctor’s fingers, few believed that she could possibly live.
Born only 21 weeks and six days after conception, Amillia Taylor weighed just under 10oz and was only 91/2 inches long.
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And now, four months later and weighing 4lb, she has been allowed home – the world’s most premature baby to have survived.
This story is important on several levels. Not only is it truly the story of a miracle, but the last paragraph sums up another significant relevancy to this plot:
Babies can still be aborted for non-medical reasons at up to 24 weeks. Recent evidence shows that, of those born at 25 weeks, half of them manage to live.
So here we have a crossroads. Baby Amillia has shown that a baby can survive outside the mother as early as 22 weeks post-conception, yet the law still allows mothers to kill babies up to 24 weeks post-conception. Either the killing of another human being is murder or it isn’t. So when does one magically turn into a human being? This story shows the gaps in the pro-choice argument.
