Ellie-Suzanne Fish was born four months premature on September 3 last year, five days before the current limit of 24 weeks.

She weighed 1lb 4.7oz and was given just a 10 to 15 per cent chance of survival then had to endure three operations, including two on the brain.

But she is now nine months old and a healthy 14lbs, and has been allowed out of hospital for the first time.

Ellie-Suzanne was born before the day the law recognized her as having any rights or being a person.  So what was her status once born?  She suddenly became a person with rights because her location has changed?  Births like her shows the arbitrariness of the current law trying to draw lines after conception.