Babies Born in the Course of Abortions
Via Christianity Today, I find that 1 in 30 late-second-trimester babies aborted in England for eugenic reasons are born alive, dying a few hours later. That’s 102 of 3,189 in this category over nine years (there are 190,000 abortions annually, in all categories). Do pro-abortion people count this as infanticide, or not? It is an interesting definitional question. It’s rare, of course, but 102 extra murders per year in Britain would, I expect, make a dent in the crime statistics.
From BBC News
The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists said it had “very strong” guidelines on terminations of pregnancy after 22 weeks.
According to the guidelines, after 22 weeks and beyond, if there are signs of major foetal abnormality and the patient has requested an abortion, the patient should be offered feticide, where a lethal injection is administered.
The patient has every right to refuse this course of action. If the baby is born alive, palliative care should be provided till the baby dies.
Theoretically, such an event could result in a doctor being accused of murder if a “deliberate act” - that is, legal abortion - were to be followed by a live birth and the subsequent death of the child because of immaturity.
October 14th, 2007 at 4:11 am
Another beautiful day in paradise, eh? I don\’t mean to be diadect or phsesious or in any way inpune your veracity (LOL), I ran across your blog when quite innocenty searcing one of the major search engines (who shall remain nameless) for Baby