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"Essentially what this type of legislation describes to voters is that there are abortions that are being performed across the country where a neonate is born alive, and not provided resuscitative care and kind of left to die," Dr. Timothy Mitchell, maternal fetal medicine physician in Montana, told Salon.

"Essentially what this type of legislation describes to voters is that there are abortions that are being performed across the country where a neonate is born alive, and not provided resuscitative care and kind of left to die."

The likelihood that any fetus will survive outside the uterus as a neonate is an estimate based on many factors.

Imaging is needed, but “it can be a huge production to get a neonate down to MRI,” says Christine Glastonbury, interim chief of neuroradiology at the University of California, San Francisco.

Overall, the study's researchers felt “the well-known benefits of early mother–neonate bonding and breastfeeding should be prioritized during the perinatal period if the risks are deemed low.”