Word: benshoof
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...24th week of gestation or weighing less than 500 g (1.1 lb.) have virtually no chance of survival. Meanwhile, fewer than 1% of the 1.5 million abortions performed in the U.S. each year occur after the first 20 weeks of pregnancy. Unless there are major technological breakthroughs, concludes Janet Benshoof, director of the Reproductive Freedom Project of the American Civil Liberties Union, "there is no 'collision course...
...anyway. Benshoof concedes that development of an artificial womb could change the picture. A handful of U.S. medical centers now use a constellation of devices that can assume some heart, lung, kidney and even digestive functions for full-term babies born with certain problems. Because the machines require the use of anticoagulants, they do not work for most preemies, who risk brain hemorrhages if given such drugs. But should technology leap this hurdle, it could reduce the viability standard to an absurdity. Asks David Rothman, professor of social medicine at the Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons: "Are we then...