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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
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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
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It maybe only the second live-born set of octuplets born in the United States.
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A woman gave birth to eight babies in Southern California on Monday, the world's second live-born set of octuplets.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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In 1893, 800 of every thousand live-born children died before reaching the age of one.
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In 1893, 800 of every thousand live-born children died before reaching the age of one.
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