The bad news is the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists will recommend that babies born alive before the gestational age of 22 weeks not be issued birth certificates, according to Britain's Sunday Times yesterday, since doing so "causes unnecessary suffering to mothers who wanted an abortion."
The good news is RCOG's recommendation may provoke calls to "drop the limit for social abortions from 24 to 22 weeks," said Dr Vincent Argent, medical director of the British Pregnancy Advisory Service, also according to the Times. In Britain, those are illegal.
Hat tip: Rich Collier.
I went into labor at 22 weeks. Had my son been born that day, I would have been livid that his life was negated to spare a conspiritors feelings or a murderer's medical license. I am sympathetic to the needs of women, but I am not afraid to call abortion what it is. Their choice to murder their children is affecting our children's lives and I will scream from the roof tops that this is unacceptable.
doing so "causes unnecessary suffering to mothers who wanted an abortion."
And of course their tender sensibilities must be protected, at the expense of those women who miscarried loved and wanted babies and are presumably not hurt by being told that they just expelled worthless blobs of tissue.