@Karma_Junkie Said
It shouldn't be down to "if they can feel pain" it should be down to "can they survive outside the womb" more and more babies are being born at 22, 23, 24 weeks gestation and surviving, my own daughter was live born at 23 weeks, these babies are being born alive and allowed/left to die WTF??? am I the only one who thinks this is just wrong?
Actually the survival rates in the last 20 or so years of babies born below 24 weeks hasn't changed a great deal, whereas with the technology evolving and medical advances the survival rate of babies born after 24 weeks has increased significantly.
Approximately 40% of all babies born before 24 weeks will die in the labour ward, this is
before they can even be transferred to SCBU and even then a lot of those babies will suffer for their entire life because before 24 weeks neither their lungs or their brains are fully developed.
If a baby is born alive and breathes independantly then imo they should be helped, however at 23 weeks it's down to the doctor as to whether they feel the baby has any realistic chance of life and what the quality of that life would be and then the doctors make that decision.
Not being funny but a consultant obstetrician will have had
years of training not only as a doctor but in obstetrics. They will have 5 years at university studying medicine and then an additional 8 before they are considered for a consultants appointment.