She was born weighing only 1lb 2oz ten days before her brother Arthur arrived at 1lb 4oz.
He was born in July after Amanda Staplehurst had been pregnant for 24 weeks.
She went to hospital complaining of stomach cramps only to be told that she was in labour.
Amelia Hope showed little sign of life but doctors were able to revive her.
Under law they are not obliged to do so unless they feel it is in the child’s best interest.
Miss Staplehurst, 30, from Bournemouth, told the Daily Mail: “Doctors said she had just a 10 per cent of chance of survival and we never thought she’d pull through.
“Then having delivered Amelia Hope, it was totally bizarre that for ten days I remained pregnant with Arthur. The doctors have told us they’ve never come across a case like it.”
The babies are being kept in incubators but are putting on weight and said to be developing well.
The twins’ survival will give weight to the campaign to have the abortion limit lowered.
Some campaigners would like to see it reduced to 20 weeks.
David Cameron, the Prime Minister, voted for a cut earlier this year and has said that an upper limit of 20 or 22 weeks would be “sensible”.
The previous British record for surviving premature twins was 24 weeks, the paper reported.
I am excited to hear the legal limit of abortion to be pushed to 20 wks., as an idea, is wonderful but a better one would be, at any week the law should be to present the "patient", a.k.a. MOM, an ultrasound sonogram as well as info. pertaining the developement as far as the "fetus", BABY, is at he timimng an abortion is requested. Like in any case in America, don't we need ALL THE FACTS before making a decision about death?!! I mean you would if you were asked to be in a jury looking at death penalty for a potential criminal, before asking to pull the plug on a family member in the hospital, deciding to undergo cancer treatment, deciding if its best to put a dog under EVEN then the facts, the pros and cons, the options are all laid out before making a decision!!!
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DeleteOI agree. It's great that they are campaigning to push the law back to 20 weeks, but 20 weeks is still 20 weeks. It's still a human. I'd like to see the day they make abortion illegal. It's absolutely disgusting to me.
ReplyDeleteYou cannot force a woman to bring a new life into the world against her will in the United States, a nation of Christians, Muslims, atheists, Buddhists, Jewish...
ReplyDeleteI am 23 weeks pregnant and it took two years for my husband and I to conceive. The tests we had to do to determine whether or not we would have a special needs child are done between 16 and 22 weeks, hence why most states have the 20 or 22 week limit on abortion. You know you are pregnant by that time, and all of the necessary screening tests can be done.
If our genetics screening came back positive for defects in the fetus, we would have aborted, even after it took two years to conceive. Our fetus is free of defects, so we are going to keep it and hopefully give birth to a healthy baby girl.
I am proud to be living in a country where the ideals of the current majority's religion cannot be forced upon me. Perhaps you people who think that aborting a 20-week fetus is the same as murder because your God says so should try living under the laws in a country like Saudi Arabia. Different God, same idea: "my God is the one true God, and your rights are dictated by the laws of my religion."
Those of us who are not Christian see no difference between the laws you want passed to force us to abide by your religion's idea that "life begins at conception"--which is NOT true by any but that most far-reaching scientific definition--and the laws of Islam nations which have so supressed the women and children under them that we are killing our own sons and daughters in numerous wars to free these people from religious dictatorships.
I have heard many of my Christian friends say abortion should be illegal, because it is murder. Few of them think that the women who abort should be jailed or given the death penalty, or even fined--they just want these "sinners" to know that they are wrong and think by making it illegal, that will make the women "know." In other words, they want the option to abort safely through medical intervention taken away from women, hoping that a woman who aborts in a back alley will get what's coming to her.
No woman intentionally gets pregnant intending to kill the fetus that will develop into her child. Thousands of women get unintentionally pregnant, everybody who conceives, intentionally or not, has a chance at having a defective fetus.
I should and DO have the right to decide whether I can emotionally and financially handle a child (special needs or not) and handle the emotional, physical, and financial aspects of carrying a fetus to term.
You had NO problem when Viagra came on the market. Insurance companies supported it, men went gaga over the option to continue having sex even when nature had decided it was not to be, my Christian friends touted on how it would bring older married couples closer together. Men can have sex as much as they want, to have children, to have pleasure, to "bring themselves closer" to a woman, no problem in your eyes. Birth control? That's wrong. PlanB? That's wrong. Abortion? Good God, that's murder! Women should have sex only if they intend to get pregnant and carry a child, healthy or not, whether she is financially, physically, and emotionally able to or not, into the word. This is your religion dictating your worldview, and it has no place in the laws of the United States.
It is disgusting to me that any American would try to force their own religious values on another American.
And for whatever it is worth:
ReplyDeleteFewer than 5% of women seek a medical abortion.
Nature (i.e. Your God) aborts 20% of all fetuses in the first trimester of pregnancy.
If you are okay with God killing 20% of fetuses whether a woman wants to be pregnant or not, but think mortal doctors killing 5% of fetuses because a woman does not want to be pregnant is wrong, then you are letting your religion dictate your worldview and need to step out of the legal debate on this matter.
I am so happy to hear that the babies are doing well any updates? It is 2 years later so I hope they fun loving kids now! Anyhow on the matter of abortion I am 9 weeks along I do not believe I nor any one person has the right to tell another what to do if you ask me I would advise against it and maybe give you some information on it as I have been through that situation myself and the person above me going on and on about religion and "your god" as she put it just sounds like she has an agenda to push each person deserves love and respect and each baby deserves to live if possible I now believe "my god" is an awesome god and even though I am sinful he forgives me
ReplyDeleteIt is not up to the parents to decide whether or not the developing baby should live or not. It is its own person and deserves to live. If the parents don't have the funds to support the baby after, there are many places and options as to where they could leave the child so that it can still live its life. Any woman who has gone to their first ultrasound anywhere near to 6 weeks will hear the baby's heart beating. That is life in there and to have the limit at 20 weeks is way too far along. After feeling the baby move, there is no doubt that it is a little life living inside of us. Abortion should be considered the same as murder. It is murder of a life. It should be illegal.
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