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  • Something like 40% of live-born Down's children die before age 10, from high incidences of major cardiac complications and strong predisposition to a number of cancers.

    Pregnant at 66 and putting choice in context - Feministing 2009

  • It is estimated that perhaps 5 percent of all live-born Roman babies died in their first month, and that almost 25 percent of infants died before their first birthday.

    Caesars’ Wives Annelise Freisenbruch 2010

  • It maybe only the second live-born set of octuplets born in the United States.

    CNN Transcript Jan 31, 2009 2009

  • A woman gave birth to eight babies in Southern California on Monday, the world's second live-born set of octuplets.

    Mairi Beautyman: The Octuplets and their Massive Carbon Footprint: 30,400 Disposable Diapers and Counting 2009

  • Hospitals and physicians 'associations, meanwhile, decried the bill's interference with the physician-patient relationship and the harsh civil and criminal penalties that could be imposed on physicians and hospitals who perform abortions that result in a "live-born" fetus.

    Emily Douglas: NRLC Recycles Debunked Born Alive Attacks 2008

  • Hospitals and physicians 'associations, meanwhile, decried the bill's interference with the physician-patient relationship and the harsh civil and criminal penalties that could be imposed on physicians and hospitals who perform abortions that result in a "live-born" fetus.

    Emily Douglas: McCain Repeats Debunked 'Born Alive' Attacks in Debate 2008

  • Newly obtained documents prove that in 2003, Barack Obama, as chairman of an Illinois state Senate committee, voted down a bill to protect live-born survivors of abortion -- even after the panel had amended the bill to contain verbatim language, copied from a federal bill passed by Congress without objection in 2002, explicitly foreclosing any impact on abortion.

    Barack Obama on the Born Alive Infant Protection Act. Ann Althouse 2008

  • The issue here is that one side views the conceptus at any stage as a full-fledged person with rights equal to any live-born individual and exceeding those of the woman-container, and the other side defines personhood at birth Jews, among others or at viability or at attainment of functional neurological complexity sufficient to support some kind of consciousness.

    Every birth a wanted birth. Oh, really? 2005

  • In 1893, 800 of every thousand live-born children died before reaching the age of one.

    Cancun Today - An Interview With Jules Siegel 2000

  • In 1893, 800 of every thousand live-born children died before reaching the age of one.

    Cancun Today - An Interview With Jules Siegel 2000

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