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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: tejek who wrote (230053)4/20/2005 5:56:02 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 1573941
 
fetus viability outside the womb......I think that's at 28 weeks

Planned Parenthood apparently says 24 weeks.

ppacca.org

Other sources would have it at 23 or possibly even 22 weeks, and there are reports of survival as young as 20 weeks.

I know of no reports of surival before 20 weeks, and I don't think that reflect ignorance on my part I suspect there are no cases of survial before that time. Technology has brough the effective point of viability down but to get it below 20 weeks you would probably need something that was effectively an artifical womb. Of course we should have something like that eventually and then viability may in a sense drop considerably. Viability is in effect set by the level of technology and the amount of money that we are willing to spend. Without advanced medical intervention its probably more like 28 weeks.

Tim
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