Rome – A botched abortion in which a healthy twin foetus was terminated instead of its sibling with Down syndrome has reignited the abortion debate in Italy and raised allegations of eugenics.
"The time has come to re-examine the abortion law" that dates back to 1978, wrote leftist Senator Paola Binetti, who is close to the Vatican, in the Corriere della Sera newspaper.
"What happened in this hospital was not a medical abortion but an abortion done for the purposes of eugenics," she said, referring to the belief that the human species can be improved through selective reproduction.
The abortion was performed on a 38-year-old woman in Milan in June, but news of its outcome has only recently become public. Doctors blamed the mistake on movement of the foetuses between the examination and the abortion.
"They wanted to kill the sick foetus and save the healthy one and what didn’t work properly in this business was the selection," Binetti wrote.
I just hope and pray that the surviving twin doesn’t get aborted.
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not aborted and then put up for adoption. The surviving baby is too precious to be raised by a woman who wanted to kill her.
I’m sorry to have to inform you that “after the 38-year old woman discovered the so-called “mistake”, she returned and had the second one, who was suffering from Down syndrome, aborted.”
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Jane, that’s awful beyond words. You’d think that the first error would have awakened to the mother to the horror of all abortion.
God help us.
How ironic that in the “every child a wanted child” crusade, the rights of the wanted children had to be removed so we could remove the rights of the unwanted children.
“Lord, how many more? How long more…?”
-One of hundreds of millions of innocent babies aborted, covered in the blood that are the wages of someone else’s sin.