Posted on 05/24/2007 10:32:21 PM PDT by monomaniac
LEINSTER, May 24, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Despite her earlier announcement that she had decided against abortion, it seems that “Miss D”, the Irish teenaged mother at the centre of a recent controversial court case, has aborted her anencephalic child after all.
The 17 year-old mother had been four months pregnant and under the care of the Health Services Executive (HSE) of the Republic of Ireland when she came into the public eye. A much publicized court-case in which she was involved centred around the effort to gain permission for her to travel to Britain to have her child aborted.
Ireland has added protections for the unborn to its constitution, but women are free to travel to nearby Britain, where there are few limits on abortion, to have their children killed.
Miss D won the case against the HSE, gaining permission to travel as a minor to Britain for the abortion, but then announced in an interview with the Independent that she had opted for “medical inducement” rather than “surgical abortion” and had developed a relationship with her disabled child.
She said that the diagnosis of anencephaly had prompted her to do an internet search on the condition. She found pro-life websites and decided that her child deserved to live. “There were pictures of babies who had been aborted and I didn‘t want that, my baby deserved to live, it deserved more than that,” she told Independent reporter Dearbhail McDonald.
“It was then,” wrote McDonald, “she decided to have the baby medically induced.” But McDonald, in his interview with Miss D, declined to mention that “medically induced” in cases of anencephaly is in fact abortion.
It is unclear if the girl was accurately informed that a premature medical inducement of labour, carried out in order to end the life of her child, is also an abortion.
She said she had bought clothes for the child and intended to bring the body back for burial. In a poignant quote she said, “I think most people think that I must be very silly and that this baby is not much. But this baby means the world to me.”
Now the Independent reporter openly describes “the procedure” Miss D underwent in Britain earlier this month as a “medically induced abortion.” The Independent describes the procedure as the administering of drugs to “to render the foetus non viable,” – dead – and to then induce labour contractions for a still birth of the dead child.
“Induced labour relieves the mother of the psychological trauma of having to carry a non-viable foetus throughout the full term of her pregnancy,” writes McDonald. A child who could survive throughout the full term of pregnancy, however, is not usually considered “non-viable” until natural death, and experts on anencephalic children say that there is no medical danger to a mother in carrying such a child to full term and no medical reason to induce labour early.
“It [the induced labour] was very emotional, but I feel I have got closure now,” Miss D told the Independent.
In the time since the Miss D court case, a poll was taken showing that 2/3 of voters in Ireland support legalizing abortion in cases of a “non-viable” foetus. The use of such “wedge issues” to start the process toward full legalization of abortion is a common tactic of abortion advocates in other countries with legal protections for the unborn. It is through court cases such as that of Miss D that abortion has been legalized in most of the western world.
After High Court judge Liam McKechnie ruled that there was no law that could prevent women travelling to Britain for abortions, the HSE publicly apologized to Miss D for having attempted to prevent the abortion.
After the ruling, the HSE said its senior managers would meet with state solicitors to discuss changes in the organisation’s statutory powers in the light of the Miss D. decision.
Read previous LifeSiteNews.com coverage:
Irish Teen Decides Against Abortion of Disabled Baby – Credits Pro-life Websites for Change http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2007/may/07051508.html
And White declined to mention that an anencephelic baby will not, in fact, live. If if survived birth, it would die soon thereafter, never gaining conciousness, as it would lack the cerebrum necessary for that. So, already they baby was doomed not to receive what it "deserved"...
I was surprised the article failed to define anencephalic too- the word is a transliteration of the greek “without brain.”
And if I’m not mistaken, “medically induced” in the context of a pregnancy means that they’re inducing birth- which will, of course, for a child who is missing the top of their skull, their scalp, and most of their brain will be fatal. (Is the author simply ignorant that “inducing”=birth and that they’re actually aborting the child?)
As in the US; hard cases make bad laws.
It hardly matters whether this baby was “medically induced” several months premature, or delivered at full term when the mother went into labor naturally. Same outcome either way. A dead blob of flesh that never had any consciousness, nor the potential for any. It’s sad, but even sadder for a young woman to spend extra months going around talking about a “baby” as the blob of flesh that will never be a real baby gets bigger and bigger.
All to be said of this is, that poor girl. How heartbreaking as she seems to have bonded with the child. There just aren’t a lot of options with this diagnosis and the chances this baby would survive beyond a week are very small. I hope the abortionists let this go and don’t try to use this to advance their agenda. Leave the girl alone to grieve and sort this out in her heart and mind.
You win today's Pro-Abort Sensitivity Award! The prize is a Giuliani button for your butt.
There’s sometimes a conflict between “sensitivity” and truth. The truth is that there’s no meaningful difference between an anencephalic fetus and a dermoid cyst (also called a benign cystic teratoma).
http://www.indegene.com/Rad/FeatArt/indRadFeatArt5.html
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/432583
http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=2960
http://home.earthlink.net/~radiologist/tf/040802.htm
Praise God for healthy babies.
Pray to God for the mothers of anencephalic babies.
You know that, of course, but maybe the truth is too painful for you to face.
I just took the basic course of college biology and there is no BLOB of flesh EVER in a reproductive situation. The cellular mechanics are absolutely amazing. One cell will turn on the genes that produce a right leg while the others will turn off that specific gene. Unfortunately, there wasn’t a cell that initially started the development of the brain or the DNA may have been skipped when replicating. THERE IS NO BLOB. It is all very precise, which is why things can go wrong when Satan’s little helpers go in to destroy. Read about it. If I can understand it, so can you.
No, this was not a blob. I talk to a woman whose child was born with this very condition in another forum. They chose not to abort the little boy. He was definitely a person, and they got to spend time with him before he died. She and her husband have never regretted their decision or had any guilt whatsover. Whether the child had consciousness or not, is not the question. We don’t kill born people with a lack of consciousness or severe physical or mental illnesses. This child would have died when God decided to take him/her, not the mother. He/she was a person with his/her own unique set of DNA and own body. The child had his/her own life that belonged to nobody else, and no one had the right to take that life but God.
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Shame! That child could have grown up to be a perfectly good leftist.
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