{"id":162580,"date":"2017-03-11T15:09:45","date_gmt":"2017-03-11T20:09:45","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=162580"},"modified":"2017-03-10T16:16:03","modified_gmt":"2017-03-10T21:16:03","slug":"baby-boy-left-die-born-abortion-cut-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/baby-boy-left-die-born-abortion-cut-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby boy ‘left to die’ in UK because he was born before abortion cut off"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ashley Glass’s son Dylan was born at just 23 weeks gestation, and although children born this prematurely have an 18 percent<\/a>\u00a0greater\u00a0chance of survival with medical intervention, Dylan did not receive any. Instead, he fought to breathe for four minutes after birth until he died. His mother is now fighting the law she believes led to his death.<\/p>\n

Glass told the Mirror UK<\/a> that her son didn’t receive medical assistance from doctors after his birth because he was born before the 24-week abortion cut off. Medical staff told her that if Dylan was born before the 24-week mark that the law didn’t allow them to help him.<\/p>\n

“My son was born alive and spent four minutes gasping to breathe but no one helped,” she told the Mirror. “The doctors had already made up their minds they weren’t going to help. It was so traumatic hearing him trying to breathe and watching him struggle and wriggle in pain in my mum’s arms – we just had to watch in horror.”<\/p>\n