One baby in 30 left alive after medical termination
Fiona Macrae, www.dailymail.co.uk | April 20, 2007

…They lived for an average of 80 minutes – although in some cases foetuses survived for over six hours.

Most of the babies were born between 20 and 24 weeks of pregnancy, but some had been in the womb for as little as 17 weeks.

… study of West Midlands [U.K.] hospitals …

Researchers looked at the outcome of 3,189 abortions performed on seriously handicapped foetuses at 20 hospitals between 1995 and 2004. …

… carried out by experts from the West Midlands Perinatal Institute and published in the British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, showed that three per cent of aborted disabled babies were born alive. …

…If these babies are born alive, it suggests they weren’t given the heart-stopping injection – perhaps because the doctor thought it would have been too traumatic for the mother….

… doctors in Norwich are currently treating a toddler born at 24 weeks after three botched terminations. …

… the study only looked at babies whose lives were ended because of disability. …