As reported by the BBC and Catholic Herald, there has been a high-profile case of misdiagnosis by doctors leading to the abortion of a healthy unborn baby in an NHS Nottingham hospital.
Ms Wesson, the expectant mother, was encouraged by doctors to terminate her pregnancy at 14 weeks – at the start of the second trimester, the term foetus is typically used to describe the life developing in the womb, though the NHS also refers to a "baby" at this stage – due to a diagnosis of Patau’s syndrome, a diagnosis that was shown to be false after the abortion.
