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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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Imagine the outrage if they had killed a dog!
Yikes. We are a scary bunch, skating on the edge.
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So true. In many places they won’t even let us adopt a dog without proving our worthiness. Kill a dog and there is almost NO CHANCE of getting away with it. If only children could get that kind of security :(
It’s a more understandable error than amputating the wrong foot, but if people weren’t so obsessed with perfection and abortion, it wouldn’t have happened, but that’s the chance you take..
I wonder what the *birth defect* was?
I guess you just cannot trust your abortionist! Who would have thought?
In Czechoslovakia an abortion was referred to a a “cancelled Czech”.....
In Czechoslovakia an abortion was referred to a a “cancelled Czech”.....
3 D ultrasound at 22 weeks.
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This story is so sad, I simply cannot express it.
Too bad for it, huh?
But successful abortions don't?!!! Go figure!!!
Yes, this story hit me harder for some reason than most abortion stories. It was a healthy baby that was wanted but killed because the mother didn’t want to raise a baby with a defect. Terrible. And then she aborts the baby with the defect as well after they kill the healthy baby. And so late in the term. At that age I read that they put a needle into the heart of the baby they want to kill and inject poison. The baby has to feel pain.
My God! They make it sound like she returned a dress that didn't fit. She's 40 years old. The pregnancy was probably IVF. Not one word about the human tragedy of it, the grief of the parents, nothing. Just the medical malpractice. Mark Steyn says Italy's birth rate is so low the population will halve every 35 years. Italians are aborting themselves out of existence. Apparently, without regret.
Here’s one for your pro-life list.
Did that aborted baby have a right to life?
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.
This healthy baby was aborted and they are outraged but only because they made a mistake on which one they were aborting, yet every day thousands of healthy babies are casually discarded...
The "grief of the parents"? Are you joking? Where was Il Papa in his role staying this grevious harm? And absent an epiphany about what she's just done, her conscience will burn to her last days.
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