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Originally Posted by zuluking
So that's kind of the crux: who decides "reasonable chance?" And does that move when the next breakthrough in premature viability of birth occurs?
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In theory, this would be a government set standard and would have to regulate this. I feel this is a better solution that having a set cut off age in the body, because, as you've mentioned, the technology will make the age obsolete and would fuel complaints that the technology exists to keep a child alive and instead are getting aborted. If course, this all falls into ideality. I made the assumption that government functions properly and does not exist along party lines, something that doesn't exist often in Canada.
Of course, we could always say "the child has the ability to support itself"...though that would far lag (even today) behind the support given for premature births.