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To: tejek who wrote (230053)	4/20/2005 10:38:44 AM
From: Tenchusatsu	Respond to of 1573868

Ted, Most liberals are capable of compromise. Thanks, Ted. Some of your fellow liberals, however, are scared of people who want to ban partial birth abortions. Between conception and birth, the slope is very steep and very slippery, if you catch my drift. You can thank Roe-v-Wade for effectively defining such a slope in the first place. Tenchusatsu

To: tejek who wrote (230053)	4/20/2005 5:56:02 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573868

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