The Oldenburg Baby is the name given by the German media to Tim, an infant born in Oldenburg, Lower Saxony, Germany on 6 July 1997.
Tim was born prematurely in the twenty-fifth week of pregnancy as the result of a failed late-term abortion.
Doctors had expected the child would soon die and thus withheld treatment for 9 hours.
He became a focus of the debate surrounding abortion, especially late-term abortion, and its legal and ethical consequences.
Tim died on the 4th of January 2019 from a lung infection, he was 21 years old.