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Posted on 04/20/2007 4:23:53 PM PDT by wagglebee
BIRMINGHAM, April 20, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The UK’s Evening Standard reports on a new study of hospitals in the West Midlands region of England that has found that one in 30 babies aborted for medical reasons is born alive and lived for an average of 80 minutes.
The study, conducted by the West Midlands Perinatal Institute and published in the British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, looked at 3,189 abortions performed on “seriously handicapped” babies at 20 hospitals between 1995 and 2004. Some of the children born alive after attempted abortion lived as long as six hours. Most of the children in the study were between 20 and 24 weeks old when they were killed.
102 of the “seriously handicapped”, killed for having Down’s syndrome or heart defects, survived the “procedure”. Under British law, abortion up to 24 weeks is allowed for “health” reasons including the idea that pregnancy might be a threat to the “mental health or well-being of the mother. After that point a “severe handicap” such as Down’s syndrome or a cleft palate is necessary.
Most of the abortions were what is now called “medical” meaning chemically induced miscarriages in which the child dies from the trauma of premature birth. This method, the study found, results in the high numbers of survivals, particularly in later term children.
The study’s numbers are described by the Evening Standard as “the tip of the iceberg” given that the West Midlands region accounts for only a tenth of the “terminations” in the UK.
The pro-life group Alive and Kicking said, “This can't just be happening in the West Midlands. It begs the question of how many healthy babies must be surviving? It would suggest the true figure must be much higher.”
“With live births after abortion occurring in 18 out of the 20 maternity units in the West Midlands alone, it is difficult to comprehend the numbers of babies around the country left fighting for their lives.”
I was just trying to point out that there can be complications. Perhaps one can operate just once for a cleft palate but his was of a nature that that didn't work.
The pro-death except for capital punishment folks profess to be scandalized by a 34-minute execution (but not by Terri Schiavo's 13-day execution). So why is it acceptable to kill innocents in an average of 80 minutes?
I think we have a role reversal here. Innocent children are being treated like murderous criminals, and murderous criminals like innocent children. Therefore, we propose:
1) All children born alive should be presumed to be children and should have full rights to appeal their death sentence.
2) All criminals convicted of capital crimes should be presumed to be late-term abortions and made to die of neglect to protect their mother's health. Progressive thinking holds that every form of execution is unacceptable. Therefore, we must switch to the Terri Schiavo solution -- withdraw their food and hydration. That's not "killing" them at all according to progressive thinking. It's an "end of life decision" that "terminates" a "fetus" that is "not viable" by removing "extraordinary means" of "life support." Furthermore, it's a euphoric experience for them.
Voila! Two huge social problems solved.
I can just imagine what the ‘health professionals’ [I refuse to use the word ‘nurse’ in this context] think when they see the ‘expelled fetus’ take a breath: Oh, damn, now we will have to wait until this “product of abortion” stops breathing!
Many years ago the NICU where I worked received a patient who had refused to die for hours after her ‘delivery’- she survived to be discharged months later, but was severely handicapped. The abortion doctor had mistaken her gestation and she was aborted at 24/5 weeks.
That type of admission did not occur again, so I bet the “protocol” was changed, and babies born alive were just not recognized.
Thank you. Nursing is a glorious and selfless calling. Those who are so hardened that they would let a baby die of neglect do not deserve the honor or the title of nurse.
I don't what to call them, but whatever it is, the name couldn't be printed in a family publication.
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It is shocking that the precious value of these children incl. our own is held by some to be purely subjective. How could anyone hold and cuddle a tiny sleeping infant, look into her sleeping face - the epitome of innocence, peace, and utter dependence - and maintain the disposability of such a precious gift? Has anyone else ever noticed the subtle discomfort in a pro-choicer's face as he or she is offered the chance to hold a newborn?
Congratulations!!!
And I agree with everything else you wrote.
This makes me sick to my soul.
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