Posted on 04/17/2010 1:26:43 PM PDT by wagglebee
The news out of Sarasota, Florida caught many people by surprise. A doctor in the city has lost his license because he aborted what is now described as the “wrong” baby. Back in 2006, Dr. Matthew Kachinas had been asked to perform an abortion on a baby that had been identified as having Down syndrome and other congenital defects. Instead, the doctor aborted that baby’s healthy twin.
As reported in The Miami Herald:
A Sarasota doctor has lost his license for mistakenly aborting a healthy twin during a procedure targeting a deformed fetus. Immediately after the Florida Board of Medicine’s decision Saturday, Dr. Matthew Kachinas was involuntarily hospitalized because he said he planned to commit suicide. Kachinas had blamed faulty ultrasound equipment for the 2006 mistake. He was targeting a fetus with Down syndrome and signs of a heart defect.
CBS News added further details: “The woman had asked the doctor to perform a selective termination procedure on the male fetus, which had congenital defects. An ultrasound later showed that the other fetus, a female that did not appear to have medical problems, had been terminated.”
What are we to make of this? We now know that the vast majority of babies identified prenatally as carrying the genetic markers for Down syndrome are aborted. National statistics indicate that 80-90% of such babies are now aborted - meaning that we have launched a search and destroy mission on Down syndrome babies in the womb.
The situation with Dr. Kachinas reveals the horribly confused morality that marks modern America and, in far too many cases, the practice of medicine. This doctor was asked to perform what is now euphemistically called a “selective reduction.” Instead, he aborted “the wrong baby,” killing a healthy baby instead of the baby identified as carrying the markers for Down syndrome.
Consider what this means for the sanctity of human life. We are now looking at babies as consumer products. We will accept babies that meet our specified qualifications, and abort when medical tests or other factors reveal that the baby does not meet our standards. Human life is reduced to just another consumer product subject to consumer preferences and demand.
Do we recognize what this means? The abortion of Down syndrome babies is a scandal of the first degree, and this nation is growing more complacent and complicit in this scandal by the day. Beyond this, we can be certain that babies are now being targeted in the womb for reasons far beyond Down syndrome. Specialists working with autism are concerned that forthcoming genetic tests will put babies who carry markers for autism next on the list for prenatal search and destroy missions.
This news story out of Florida is a warning to the entire nation. What is the real scandal here - that this doctor was ready to kill a baby with Down syndrome, or merely that he aborted “the wrong baby?”
The answer to that question will tell us all we need to know about the conscience of the age.
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That is so sad, and a terrible abuse of IVF to ‘design’ the ‘perfect’ baby. With all of my IVFs I would have fallen on my knees and thanked God if I had gotten pregnant with a child with Down’s or any other ‘deformity’ (God, seeing that poor baby described as ‘deformed’ in the article just breaks my heart. :*( I know so many infertile couples who would have adopted that baby in a heartbeat. :*(
I once took care of a lady whose job was to take care of special needs children. She had a Downs baby, took one look and said “Take him away, put him up for adoption; I never want to see him again.”
I thought this was cruel because this person, of all persons, should be equipped to care for a Downs child.
She then told her family that the child was stillborn.
Actually, he was a beautiful and healthy child.
This act of unMotherly-ness left such a lasting impression on me as a nursing student.
Turns out, this woman was positively humane by comparison.
Sigh.
She killed the other one too.
Thank you! Waco isn’t too far from us, we are up here not far from Oklahoma border...howdy! Did you get a pic of your boys on the news? That’s neat to have seen them on Fox! :-)
No, no, no, no...they WANTED the healthy girl, so that one was a BABY. Since she was a BABY, she had legal rights to live.
The ‘deformed’ boy with Down’s was a FETUS. As a FETUS, he had NO legal rights, so he could be murdered.
There IS a big difference, d’oh
Why is that so hard to understand?!?!
/typical pro-’choice’ liberal meme off (their rockers!)
Here is a good resource site about Hitler’s campaign to rid Germany of “Useless Eaters” and “Lives Devoid of Value”:
http://www.toolan.com/hitler/index.html
Yes, but the test introduces a significant chance of spontaneous abortion.
From the above cited source:
The next step, towards the end of 1938 and the beginning of 1939, was publicly tested in Germany after endless discussions and propaganda moves. A letter addressed to Adolf Hitler written by a man called Knauer from Leipzig asked for permission for a doctor to shorten the life of his child who was born blind, seemed to be an idiot and had only parts of its arms and legs. The child itself was at this time at the Children’s Clinic in the University of Leipzig, which was headed by Professor Werner Catel, Professor for Neurology and Psychiatry at the same university.
At that time Catel was already an exponent of euthanasia and has remained one to this day which fact he acknowledged in his book “Border Situations of Life - Contribution to the Problem of a Limited Euthanasia”. it was Catel who made the suggestion to the father, or at least focused his attention in that direction, to write a letter to the Führer. As an answer to this letter, Hitler sent his physician, Professor Karl Brandt, to Leipzig and after consultations with Catel, put the child to sleep.
Several months later, Hitler signed a document authorising Dr. Karl Brandt and Reich-leader Philipp Bouhler to permit euthanasia in special cases. This authorisation was supposedly signed in October 1939, but was backdated to the beginning of September of the same year. The document was really nothing more than an authorisation and formulated in such a way that a doctor who truly felt bound to the Hippocratic Oath could interpret it in such a way that no-one would have to die. The “Führer-order” as it was generally called, had apparently come about after a lively discussion between Dr. Karl Brandt, Dr. Leonardo Conti and Philipp Bouhler and was as follows:
“Reichsleader Bouhler and Dr. Brandt M.D. are charged with the responsibility of enlarging the authority of certain physicians to be designated by name in such a manner that persons who according to human judgement can upon most careful diagnosis of their condition of sickness be accorded a mercy death.
Signed - A. Hitler”.
There will be a Judgment Day, don't worry.
That’s truly chilling. Without love of God and a relationship with Him, man is truly prone to the most vile, evil, I can’t even imagine.
Truly sick, what is wrong with people? Don’t they get it, it’s a person, not a choice.
Here are some links:
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005200
http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/holocaust/h-euthanasia.htm
http://www.life.org.nz/euthanasia/abouteuthanasia/history-euthanasia6/
http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/focus/disabilities/
http://www.shoaheducation.com/t4.html
This article, “Useless Eaters” by Dr. Mark Mostert is the best that I have ever read on the subject:
http://www.regent.edu/acad/schedu/uselesseaters/text/2743414051_1.pdf
This is also an excellent site by Dr. Mostert:
http://www.regent.edu/acad/schedu/uselesseaters/
My dear Lord!
Thanks for finding that! I remember reading it, but didn’t have a link.
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