Aborted baby 'not a dwarf'

news.com.au ^ | 07Apr02 | GERARD McMANUS

[jwalsh07]

Bitch.

[garv]

Intellectual and moral dwarfism is genetic among the pro-abortion set.

[DLfromthedesert]

An infant at 32 weeks is viable. How can this be legal in any jurisdiction? Dwarfism is not lethal.

[ventana]

Good work tonite, nick. V's wife.

[moyden]

The liberal is a sadistic thug.

[Ciexyz]

32 weeks is eight months. Many preemies are born at seven and eight months and survive. This is outright murder.

[Ciexyz]

If the mother was suicidal at the thought of giving birth to a "dwarf", how will she feel now, learning that the baby probably was "normal"?

[Canticle_of_Deborah]

Fetal "reduction"?? What the heck is THAT? I haven't heard that undoubtedly PC term before.

It was predicted that eventually things like this would happen. Unfortunately, this "mother" will probably portray herself as the victim now and sue everyone in sight.

[dead]

They write this like it's some kind of tragedy all of a sudden, as if dwarf murder is somehow benign.

[Ciexyz]

Hope that this woman's next try at pregnancy doesn't result in Down's syndrome, Tay-Sachs or sickle cell anemia. Anyone imperfect doesn't have the right to live (sarcasm, of course).

[f.Christian]

...trial-error--natural selection...back to frog school--pond!

[dead]

If the mother was suicidal at the thought of giving birth to a "dwarf"...

I'm sure she was never suicidal. To get a late term abortion, you need to claim a threat to mother's "life or health", which basically means you have to make up some reason.

[jwalsh07]

Many preemies are born at seven and eight months and survive. This is outright murder

Babies have survived after only 20 weeks in the womb. And you are right, this is murder and stinks of Nazi Eugenics.

[SarahW]

It does no one any good for you to overstate the chances the baby was not afflicted with dwarfism. The baby was not "probably" normal by any ones account except yours.

If genetic testing confirmed dwarfism, any ambivalence in the notes by nurses would be irrelevent.

I've seen babies with dwarfism and they look like small normal babies.

[nickcarraway]

Last fall, I was having dinner at a good friend's parents' house. His mother, a pediatrician, was telling me that when she was pregnant with my friend's younger brother she was sick and had a fever for an extended period. Her doctor told her the baby was in trouble and she should abort it. It was so chilling to hear that doctors had wanted to abort someone that I had known for ten years. He was born perfectly healthy, of course.

[Canticle_of_Deborah]

In the end, does it really matter either way?

[Canticle_of_Deborah]

There are many stories out there just like that. Scary.

[Cicero]

Do you think we should have open season on dwarfs?

[fightinJAG]

And if the mother was suicidal, how could the doctors possibly have believed that her "desperate pleas" constituted informed consent? How can a person in this state make any rational decisions about her health and body?

On another sad note, genetic testing is hardly foolproof.