Posted on 04/29/2010 9:41:14 AM PDT by NYer
The 22-week infant was found breathing a day after the operation. He died one day later in intensive care at a hospital in the mother's home town of Rossano, in southern Italy.
The mother, pregnant for the first time, had opted for an abortion after prenatal scans revealed that the foetus had a cleft lip and palate, according to reports in the Italian media. The condition is treatable with surgery.
The baby - weighing just 11oz - survived the procedure, carried out on Saturday in the Rossano Calabro hospital, but was left by doctors to die.
He was discovered alive the following day – some 20 hours after the operation – by Father Antonio Martello, the hospital chaplain, who had gone to pray beside his body.
He found that the baby, wrapped in a sheet with his umbilical cord still attached, was moving and breathing.
The priest raised the alarm and doctors immediately arranged for the infant to be taken to a specialist neo-natal unit at the neighbouring Cosenza hospital, where he died on Monday morning.
The story has caused outrage in Italy, where many have called for the country's abortion laws to be changed.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Just what WILL it take for people to wake up to the horror that is passed off as "Reproductive Freedom"? It took the gruesome pictures out of the German Concentration camps for the world to recognize the genocide that was happening under Hitler. Our society today has scar tissue where its conscience should be! I hope this outrage and recognition of the truth spreads like wildfire across this world and human life - in all forms - is once again given the honor and respect it deserves.
Thank you for the post.
But a cleft lip and palate can be fixed.
HAIL Mary, full of grace,
the Lord is with thee.
Blessed art thou amongst women
and blessed is the fruit of
thy womb, Jesus.
Holy Mary, Mother of God,
pray for us sinners, now,
and in the hour of our death. Amen.
Praying now for hearts to change.
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