{"id":2940,"date":"2007-10-24T21:15:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-24T21:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/standingonmyhead\/2007\/10\/abortion-in-britain\/"},"modified":"2007-10-24T21:15:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-24T21:15:00","slug":"abortion-in-britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/standingonmyhead\/2007\/10\/abortion-in-britain.html","title":{"rendered":"Abortion in Britain"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_5BV_YADVD7o\/Rx_v0jWw6DI\/AAAAAAAAA-U\/D8esZa9D_P4\/s1600-h\/24weekfetus.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt;float: left;cursor: pointer\" src=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_5BV_YADVD7o\/Rx_v0jWw6DI\/AAAAAAAAA-U\/D8esZa9D_P4\/s320\/24weekfetus.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a><br>The government in Britain and the medical establishment are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/main.jhtml;jsessionid=JF10QCX3YUA2HQFIQMFCFFOAVCBQYIV0?xml=\/news\/2007\/10\/25\/nabort125.xml\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">working together<\/a> to resist any lowering of the present 24 week abortion limit. Despite the fact that premature babies at just 23 weeks gestation born and nurtured in British intensive care units have a pretty good survival rate, they <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/main.jhtml?xml=\/news\/2007\/10\/24\/nabort424.xml\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">are still refusing <\/a>to lower the time limit.<\/p>\n<p>Pictured above is a 24 week old human fetus. Babies of this age are able to be legally killed in Britain.<\/p>\n<p><span>UPDATE: Read Charles Moore\u2019s excellent anti-abortion <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/opinion\/main.jhtml?xml=\/opinion\/2007\/10\/27\/do2702.xml\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">editorial <\/a><span>from the Daily Telegraph<\/span><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government in Britain and the medical establishment are working together to resist any lowering of the present 24 week abortion limit. 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