How anti-abortion activists use cutting edge science to justify ever stricter laws

As neonatal science advances, anti-abortion activists are looking to these new techniques to push for more restrictions

Dr Edward Bell treats the tiniest babies at University of Iowa children’s hospital, pre-term infants who weigh one pound or less, and whose chances of survival are minute.

One of his pet projects is tracking the smallest in the world, which sometimes attracts attention from abortion opponents. But the visitors he received in August 2016 still surprised him.

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