From the U.K.'s Telegraph:
The mother, pregnant for the first time, had opted for an abortion after prenatal scans suggested that her baby was disabled.
However, the infant survived the procedure, carried out on Saturday in the Rossano Calabro hospital, and was left by doctors to die.
He was discovered alive the following day – some 20 hours after the operation – by Father Antonio Martello, the hospital chaplain, who had gone to pray beside his body.
He found that the baby, wrapped in a sheet with his umbilical cord still attached, was moving and breathing...
Found via Mike Liccione.
8 comments:
Now abortionists will be sure to charge a little extra for "cervical torsion", just in case the head is still attached to the neck.
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Did you read the last paragraph? There was a baby boy born in 2005 who survived 3 attempts to abort him...he's now 5 years old.
Yes I did.
If I'm reading this properly, at 22 weeks these children are "aborted" by inducing labor, which results int he child's death.
So, the doctors essentially force a premature birth and the child dies because it cannot live outside the womb?
So, is there a time limit on that? If it dies in the birth canal it's legal, but if it dies as a result of the induction within five minutes, it's legal, too? So, why not two days?
And I'm guessing this is the same procedure used in the U.S. at this stage?
I think you're reading it correctly.
So, the doctors essentially force a premature birth and the child dies because it cannot live outside the womb?
Usually. Obviously, as in this case, there are exceptions. (I'm not clear as to what exactly kills the baby - the induction of labor or its inability to live outside the womb, to breathe, in other words.)
So, is there a time limit on that?...So, why not two days?
No time limit in Italy. The law says that doctors have an obligation to preserve life if the baby survives the abortion. That is not the case in the U.S., as far as I know. We do have a born-alive infant protection act (remember the pre-election stink about Obama's opposition to it), but no mechanism by which to enforce it. Its existence seems to have all the legal force of a grand but futile gesture.
And I'm guessing this is the same procedure used in the U.S. at this stage?
There are several procedures. I don't know whether this is the most commonly used or not.
I know I'm playing catch-up here: Jill Stanek says that labor induction abortions are very common in the U.S. for mid-to-late-term. They are in one sense easy because they are non-surgical for the woman. I've attempted to find out of Christ Hospital in Illinois (where the procedure received a lot of publicity, because they had a room for rocking the baby until it died of prematurity) is still doing them. I've asked around and heard from a very indirect and possibly non-reliable source that they are but are hiding it somehow. I can't get the details.
This baby in the story had a cleft palate. Otherwise, or so we're told, his murder would have been illegal in Italy at that stage of pregnancy. But they were allowed to abort him for the cleft palate.
Wesley Smith had a liberal trollish commentator (he's on that site a lot) who pretended the whole story was made up as anti-abortion propaganda. His argument was that the priest who found the baby alive wouldn't have been allowed to "wander around" and go and pray by the baby's body. How he thinks he knows this is beyond me.
He doesn't, just trying to distract from the real issue: killing babies.
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