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Even being born a few weeks early leads to significantly worse outcomes - the birthing ward at the hospital where my daughter was born had posters up warning of

Even being born a few weeks early leads to significantly worse outcomes - the birthing ward at the hospital where my daughter was born had posters up warning of it. I thought that was weird because...you know, you're already there, but apparently it used to be fairly common for doctors to schedule induced labor earlier than they should have and for people to try to deliver earlier as it'd be easier on them. When you get down to 26 weeks things get dire: >In one study of 241 children born before 26 weeks' gestation the following was found: 22% severe disability (eg cerebral palsy + not walking, low cognitive scores, blindness, profound deafness) 24% moderate disability (eg cerebral palsy + walking, IQ/cognitive scores in the special needs range, lesser degree of visual or hearing impairment) 34% mild disability (defined as low IQ/cognitive score, squint, requiring glasses) 20% no problems. https://www.tommys.org/pregnancy-information/premature-birth/premature-birth-statistics https://www.tommys.org/pregnancy-information/premature-birth... We already have a solution for people that don't want to keep their babies past pregnancy. Let's not ruin the baby's lives on top of it.

autoexec 5y ago
Any time you bring an unwanted child into the world there are going to be higher risks of the baby's life being ruined. Either the parents keep it, which is clearly going to lead to bad outcomes or it goes into foster care which increases the odds the child will be abused, be arrested, have mental/developmental issues, and become homeless, while also being less likely to complete high school, far less likely to have postsecondary education, less likely to be successful in their careers, etc. Still, some people feel its better for a child to be born into suffering than to never be born at all.

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Even being born a few weeks early leads to significantly worse outcomes - the birthing ward at the hospital where my daughter was born had posters up warning of

by Auracle 5y ago

autoexec 5y ago
Any time you bring an unwanted child into the world there are going to be higher risks of the baby's life being ruined. Either the parents keep it, which is clearly going to lead to bad outcomes or it goes into foster care which increases the odds the child will be abused, be arrested, have mental/developmental issues, and become homeless, while also being less likely to complete high school, far less likely to have postsecondary education, less likely to be successful in their careers, etc. Still, some people feel its better for a child to be born into suffering than to never be born at all.