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Posted on 08/27/2007 1:03:41 PM PDT by NYer
Italian police have been asked to investigate a case in which doctors treating a 40-year-old woman who was pregnant with twins aborted a healthy foetus while leaving a second, malformed one untouched.
The San Paolo hospital in Milan yesterday confirmed a report of the blunder in the daily Corriere della Sera. A statement from the hospital said the twins had changed places inside the womb between the first ultrasound scan and a second one carried out shortly before the operation, which took place in the 18th week of the pregnancy. It said it had handed the case notes to the "competent authorities".
The "misfortune", as the hospital termed it, is the latest of several high-profile errors that have prompted fierce debate over both the standards of professionalism in Italy's hospitals and the application of its abortion law. In March, a foetus aborted in the 22nd week of pregnancy at a hospital in Florence, because of suspected deformities, was found to be physically sound. It was rescuscitated and survived for a brief period.
A leading Christian Democrat politician, Luca Volonte, denounced the latest case as "infanticide arising from a contempt for human life". He said the health minister should also investigate the blunder, which the hospital said took place in June.
Italian news agencies said the woman subsequently returned to hospital to have the remaining, deformed foetus aborted. She then reported the doctors to police.
Italy's still-controversial 1978 law provides for abortion on demand up to the 90th day of gestation. However, doctors can terminate pregnancies at a later stage if there is a danger to the life of the mother or if the foetus is malformed.
In 2004, the latest year for which figures are available, less than 3% of the 138,000 abortions in Italy, were undertaken after the 90-day mark.
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I don't know how anyone could read this story and not realize the evil of abortion. I don't think I've ever heard of anything more tragic.
That the mother could, after all of this, sue the doctor, is beyond me.
Took the words right out of mouth
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Both babies had a right to life.
They should sterilize this woman and her husband, if she has one.
Eugenics ping...
Both babies had a right to life.
***No, they didn’t. That’s why the parents could choose to kill either one. Those babies do not have the rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness extended to them by the constitutions of the governments in Italy (nor the USA). That is what needs to change.
Down's syndrome. God had the last laugh here!
Thank you, Greg, for posting those pictures!
They are also contracepting themselves out of existence. To fill the lack of workers, they have imported Muslims from the middle east. Need I say more.
Of course they are!
A few years ago, a British woman aborted her baby because it had a cleft lip. This outraged other British who had been born with cleft lips and/or palates and had them surgically repaired. This is the slippery slope of abortion.
How on earth did they diagnose a Down’s Syndrome baby with an ultrasound?
And did they verify that it actually WAS Down’s after they aborted it, I wonder?
I hear way too many stories of babies diagnosed with birth defects whose parents were advised to have an abortion and they didn’t. The baby was then born perfectly normal.
The left hates life.
By the grace of God, I hope this woman is never able to conceive again.
What's unique about the Italian abortion industry is that it seems to thrive on married couples who want only one or two children (I was stationed in Italy for 2 years and they are destroying themselves by contraception and abortion). In the USA the abortion industry seems to thrive more on fornication, adultery (and rape--which Planned Barrenhood never reports). Regardless of the circumstances, abortion is always a murder of a preborn child, a violent rejection of the dignity and duties of motherhood, a contradiction to what the medical field is supposed to be all about, an insult to the Creator of life... it's a mortal sin and, in the Catholic Church, is an automatic excommunication (but alas, the press and the medical world could care less about the eternal consequences of abortion).
Really, contraception and the contraceptive mentality is the slippery slope that has led Italy (and the USA) to this point of mass holocaust of preborn babies. Where there is a contraceptive mentality there are "unwanted" pregnancies and thus abortion.
And, by the way, Downs Syndrome babies are pure fountains of God's love.
STOP the baby-killing! Kyrie eleison...
Getting chopped into little pieces by a so-called medical doctor is very "unfortunate."
Excuse me while I puke.
It should. If it's better for a baby to be dead than to live with disease X, shouldn't we kill everyone with disease X?
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PING!
How horrible! How can a parent kill her child because their child is not “perfect” according to their sense of the word? This beautiful little girl was created in the image of God, and she had the right to life. Sadly, it was not recognized. In the attempt to kill her “defective” child, she proceeded her perfectly healthy child. Perhaps God decided a mother worthy of doing such a thing doesn’t deserve either. May both these babies rest in peace!
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