A premature baby is nurtured with eye-wateringly complex and costly care, as one floor away a decision is taken to abort a life that has known more weeks in the womb than its fragile neighbour.
It’s a scene John Wyatt, professor of Ethics and Perinatology at University College London, has witnessed in the UK medical arena and it drives him to urge others to engage with the life-shaping topic of health.
‘How is it possible in one medical system for these two contradictory activities to be going on?’ he asked an attentive crowd at St Peter’s Vere Street in London on 17 November.
