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  • adjective born alive

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective (of newborn infant) showing signs of life after birth; not stillborn

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Examples

  • If he isn't a "liveborn" then he's not a person in Canada, therefore he has no right to healthcare and the baby can be left to die, as in this case of an abortion of a 35-week old fetus in 1999.

    More details on coding late-term abortions in Canada Suzanne 2009

  • They argue that reducing stillbirths needs to be part of the UN's overall Millennium Development Goals on cutting the death toll of women in childbirth and their liveborn babies.

    Stillbirth rate in UK one of Europe's highest, Lancet finds 2011

  • I do realize that women and their men who are trying to have children grieve over early miscarriages, but they are grieving a 7# liveborn infant they anticipated, an infant with capacity to respond to and learn from its environment, not an anticipated anencephalic generally considered to be environmental in etiology or trisomy 18 liveborn, much less a more severe genetic defect.

    Frances Kissling on the fetus’ value 2004

  • We now have the means to identify every father of an aborted conceptus, or for that matter a liveborn infant.

    Is abortion a religious question? 2004

  • As I have posted elsewhere, a consistent stance for the “pro-life feminist” wishing to assume some male responsibility for pregnancies and resulting children would be support for a universal male DNA database, testing of all conceptuses and liveborn infants to identify paternity, and prosecution of all men who procreate with women who have not registered with the government their intent to become pregnant.

    “Feminist and Pro-Life”; another reply to Hugo 2004

  • “When you say it was premature and liveborn, what does that mean?”

    Plain Truth JODI PICOULT 2000

  • The infant was a premature liveborn male with no congenital abnormalities.

    Plain Truth JODI PICOULT 2000

  • He was a premature liveborn male infant with no congenital abnormalities.

    Plain Truth JODI PICOULT 2000

  • The infant was a premature liveborn male with no congenital abnormalities.

    Plain Truth JODI PICOULT 2000

  • He was a premature liveborn male infant with no congenital abnormalities.

    Plain Truth JODI PICOULT 2000

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