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We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to reduce the legal gestational age for abortion from 24 weeks to 16 weeks. More details
Submitted by Dr John F Corish – Deadline to sign up by: 29 January 2008 – Signatures: 2,339
Given the advances in medical science over the past two decades, most babies now born after 24 weeks gestation are completely viable. They also have a fully developed central nervous system and feel pain in just the same way as a baby born at full term.
It is therefore uspeakably cruel for fetuses who have reached this gestational age to have their lives terminated by abortion.
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