The long read: Doctors are pushing the limits of science and human biology to save more extremely premature babies than ever before. But when so few survive, are we putting them through needless suffering?
The question as always is, where should the line be drawn? And realistically, the parents are the ones with the most say over the decision, so it’s never going to be a purely logical choice.
I don’t know where the line should be drawn, but there should be a line, and it should be going in the opposite direction. Yeah, you can keep the fetus alive outside of a body. And then it can suffer for decade after decade after decade.
The question as always is, where should the line be drawn? And realistically, the parents are the ones with the most say over the decision, so it’s never going to be a purely logical choice.
I don’t know where the line should be drawn, but there should be a line, and it should be going in the opposite direction. Yeah, you can keep the fetus alive outside of a body. And then it can suffer for decade after decade after decade.