'Selective Reduction' Abortions Increasing: Children Have Become Commodities

Catholic Online ^ | 12/23/10 | Deacon Keith Fournier

[tcg]

..."The Ontario couple is part of what some experts say is a growing demand for reducing twins to one, fueled more by socio-economic imperatives than medical need, and raising vexing new ethical questions. Experts question whether parents should choose to terminate a fetus just because of the impact the child would have on their lives, and note that even more medically necessary reductions can trigger lifelong angst and even threaten marriages. The mother said the Toronto doctor who eventually did her reduction performs several a month."

If you recoiled upon reading about this couple choosing to "reduce" - kill - their daughter or son it is because you still have a conscience. However, there is no moral difference between the choice of this couple and the willful abortions committed every day for any reason throughout all nine months of pregnancy in the United States of America and throughout the West. The action of taking the life of an innocent child in the womb is intrinsically evil. It also violates the Natural Law Right to Life making it a crime, even if the positive law of a nation fails to recognize the existence of that Right to Life. ...

[tcg]

'Fetal reductions are most commonly conducted by inserting an ultrasound-guided needle through the mother's abdomen and into the uterus, injecting a potassium chloride solution into the chosen fetus or fetuses, stopping their hearts.' They are increasing in number. They are being done by parents who simply do not want twins. Our children have become commodities... ...We probably do not want to consider what is really happening here just days before Christmas when we pause to remember the birth of the Child who changed the course of human history. However, we must do so if we ever hope to recover our National soul and respond to the meaning of the Holy Day we celebrate. The Incarnate Word of God became a human person, living life at every age and stage, in the real womb of a real mother. He is identified with every child, at every age and stage. "Selective Reductions" are targeted raids on children using chemical weapons to kill them. They are now entrenched in our current culture of death.

[johniegrad]

raising vexing new ethical questions

There is nothing new nor vexing about any of this. This is abortion and murder. Imagine telling the surviving twin what happened and the questions that might arise from that.

[samtheman]

Oh yeah. You had a brother, but we had to kill him so we could afford that new bedroom furniture. You understand, I’m sure.

[mmercier]

Disgusting.

Selective murder, nothing more.

[Citizen Tom Paine]

Wait until that same reasoning is used on old people.

[barb-tex]

Choosing to Murder one child is bad enough, but choosing which one. What do you say, eenie meenie, mine mo, choose the one that has to go?

[johniegrad]

Or, how did you decide to let me live and have him die?

[rbg81]

Yeah, that was my thought too. Traumatize the kid by telling them about the brother/sister they never had.

[CaspersGh0sts]

I hope no public funds are used for this...

“Let’s just kill off the little one. Someone else will pay for that, too.”

[samtheman]

Oh that’s easy son. We flipped a coin. You were heads. So he lost his.

But go outside and play now. Enough family history for now. Have a nice day!

[kjo]

Sick...and ever so sad.

[outpostinmass2]

You’re making the wrong assumption that these people have a conscious to begin with.

[who knows what evil?]

Both this post and #3 are outstanding...I fear you are very close to the truth...

[who knows what evil?]

Wait until that same reasoning is used on old people.

Coming soon...

[TSgt]

Liberal regions like the blue states wonder why their population is shrinking, perhaps they should stop killing their children...

[HereInTheHeartland]

It is not popular to talk about hell today. But is a real thing, and these people will be facing it without seeking redemption.

[ViLaLuz]

Just reading the term “fetal reduction” makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.

[ViLaLuz]

“Wait until that same reasoning is used on old people.”

It already is.

[nina0113]

Traumatize the kid by telling them about the brother/sister they never had.

From what I've heard, twins know already. There's a few people on FR who lost their twin pre-birth, and they've witnessed to that.

[rbg81]

Sorry, I’m a little skeptical that anyone can have “womb” memories. I can barely even remember last Friday.