Two Days Too Young: Government Program Condemns UK Preemie to Death

A baby born in the UK was denied care because he was born two days too early. Government guidelines refuse care to babies younger than 22 weeks. Little Jayden was 21 weeks five days old when he was born prematurely. Doctors refused to give the mother injections to try to stop her labor as well as abandoning the newborn to death. A little girl born in the U.S. in 2006 just short of 22 weeks survived. She is a healthy

This is the reality of government rationing. Bureaucratic health care standards will take the place of a doctor's assessment. Jayden lived for two hours without any intervention. His mom is now trying to get the regulations in Britain changed.

Oppose socialized medicine. Health care rationing is the inevitable result and dead babies like Jayden.