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Members of the British Medical Association (BMA) called for proper medical treatment to be given to babies who survive abortion attempts.
Sixty-five percent of the attendees at the BMA's annual conference in Llandudno, North Wales, voted for a resolution July 1 that demanded that "babies born alive as a result of termination of pregnancy procedures receive the full neonatal care as that available to other babies," according to The Herald & Times.
Supporters of the resolution said that there have been several cases in recent years where babies who were born alive after abortion attempts were left to die without medical care, The Herald & Times reported. "We have a duty to protect the fundamental human rights of a baby once it is considered living," Ib Adedugbe, a medical student, told the conference. "In one instance, a terminated baby lived unsustained without even life support for three days."
The chairman of the BMA's medical ethics committee, Michael Wilks, told Press Association News that existing guidelines call for medical ...
Source: HighBeam Research, British Doctors Support Equal Care for Abortion Survivors.