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Re: Philadelphia doctor accused of murdering patient, newborns - January 20th 2011, 08:54 PM

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Originally Posted by thebigmole View Post
No he performed illegal abortions, abortions after 12 weeks are only legal if the pregnancy is a health risk for the mother or the baby has a terminal disease. Basically he cut out viable babies and killed them, that's murder. Legally speaking if a baby takes a breath outside of the womb it's alive. So he killed living human beings=murder.
Actually it's illegal after the 145th day of pregnancy (or 20 weeks, 5 days) unless the growing fetus is posing a health risk upon the mother.

Day 146+ fetuses are viable.

Note: I'm just going with the earliest fetal birth, so don't say I'm wrong. Generally it's around 20 weeks, but I think the real date of viability lies in 22 weeks.