{"id":172687,"date":"2017-10-03T15:00:38","date_gmt":"2017-10-03T19:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=172687"},"modified":"2017-10-04T13:10:05","modified_gmt":"2017-10-04T17:10:05","slug":"born-6-months-weighing-just-13-ounces-dylan-fighter-just-celebrated-first-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/born-6-months-weighing-just-13-ounces-dylan-fighter-just-celebrated-first-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"Born at 6 months and weighing just 13 ounces, Dylan is a ‘fighter’ who just celebrated his first birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dylan Franklin was born at just six months gestation, and weighed a mere 13 ounces.<\/p>\n

At such a premature age, babies often have difficulty breathing on their own. But Dedrick and Paige Franklin of Memphis, Tennessee, remember distinctly how their son cried. “It was the smallest little cry. I didn’t expect to hear him cry, but he cried,” his mother told a local news station, WREG in Memphis.<\/p>\n

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Preborn child at 6 months gestation (via ehd.org)<\/p><\/div>\n

Dylan’s father, Dedrick, told WREG<\/a>, “A lot of people don’t give babies his size a chance, especially how small he was and the fact that the doctors told us he [was] gonna die.”<\/p>\n

Dylan’s father, sadly, is correct. In some places, babies born very early — especially those born before 23 weeks, 6 days — are given little aid beyond comfort care, with no extra measures in an attempt to save their lives. Even more tragically, babies born at the same age as Dylan can still be legally aborted in the United States. While the abortion industry claims that children at that gestational age and older are only aborted in dire circumstances (for example, to save the life of the mother<\/a> or because of a fatal fetal abnormality<\/a>), the reality<\/a> is that late-term abortions<\/a> happen well past the age of viability, and they are committed for any reason<\/a> whatsoever.<\/p>\n