The Associated Press recently reported that a baby girl in New York born three months premature, measuring only ten inches and weighing twelve ounces, was healthy enough to be released from a hospital. At the tender age of four months the little girl weighed only four pounds, six ounces. When the tiny child was born she only had one and a half ounces of blood or about three tablespoons.
Newborns generally have between twelve to fifteen ounces of blood.
The survival of this young girl underscores how outdated the Supreme Court decision in Roe v Wade has become through modern technology. When the Supreme Court decided the abortion case in 1973 it did so without the benefit of any medical research. Advancing medical treatment for newborns has made this twenty-seven year old opinion look like a relic. Despite the fact that this young girl was able to survive birth in the second trimester, the Supreme Court has legalized abortion through all nine months of pregnancy. It's time that we stopped the shed of innocent blood in America.