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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department
takes to ensure that the upper gestational limits on abortion are guided by the latest
science on foetal viability; and whether his Department has made an assessment of
the implications for its policies of the findings on foetal viability from 22 weeks
gestation in (a) Riley K., et al., Survival and neurodevelopmental morbidity at 1
year of age following extremely preterm delivery over a 20-year period: a single centre
cohort study, published in Acta Paediatrica in 2008, (b) MBRRACE-UK Supplementary
report on survival up to one year of age for babies born before 27 weeks gestational
age — For Births in Great Britain from January to December 2016, Maternal, Newborn
and Infant Clinical Outcome Review Programme published in 2019 and (c) Håkansson S.
et al., Proactive Management Promotes Outcome in Extremely Preterm Infants: A Population-Based
Comparison of Two Perinatal Management Strategies, published in Pediatrics in 2004.
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