Abortion opponents are hailing new findings that a majority of babies born on the brink of viability can survive, saying science is increasingly backing up their efforts to ban abortions earlier in pregnancy.
Nearly seven in 10 infants born at 22 and 23 weeks gestation and given active care survived, according to a study published this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association Pediatrics. Survival rates were 60 percent among infants born at 22 weeks and 70 percent among infants born at 23 weeks.
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