The article you quote is out of date. Many of the countries mentioned, like Germany and Austria, are self-aggrandizingly wasting time and tax money pumping life into <500g babies regardless of whether the law considers these living children or not. After all it's the doctor who makes the call, not a lawyer.
You can verify this by looking at the Tiniest Babies Registry [1], which was also mentioned in the article (those 52 surviving babies -- but the toll today is already at 155). The numbers are not so skewed towards the US as they were in 2008. In recent years, about half of these tiny babies were born in Europe, Japan or South Korea.
You can verify this by looking at the Tiniest Babies Registry [1], which was also mentioned in the article (those 52 surviving babies -- but the toll today is already at 155). The numbers are not so skewed towards the US as they were in 2008. In recent years, about half of these tiny babies were born in Europe, Japan or South Korea.
[1] http://webapps1.healthcare.uiowa.edu/tiniestbabies/