The mother of unborn twins decides to abort one of them at 32 weeks because of a congenital heart problem. But they abort the wrong one, and she loses both babies.
This is one moment where a graphic visual of what aborting at 32 weeks looks like might have prevented her from making this terrible, terrible “choice.”
I almost feel like we aren’t getting the full story here. Why on earth would you disturb the peace for your developing twins at 32 weeks? I’m trying to think as someone who isn’t against abortion here… What would make that tenable to you? You are about to deliver in any case, you will end up in delivery for sure… Maybe they told her the life of her healthy baby was threatened by the life of the unhealthy one?
Or maybe I’m just giving too much credit, and the woman simply didn’t care about the ethical ramifications of killing off one twin. I’m sure she does care a whole lot, now.
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I am not justifying what she did by any means. But carrying twins is indeed difficult. The majority of woman feel great physical discomfort and many many women end up on bed rest for the last few weeks. Plus most twin deliveries are early, with the babies being on the small side. She probably considered all of these factors in her decision and, given the heart problem of the one baby, she was probably told that baby would not live long. She could have made her decision in light of all those factors. Carrying twins is quite different than carrying singletons.
But in no way do I condone what she did. Just want to say that a twin pregnancy is physically and psychologically different from singletons.
I also suspect the doctors may have pushed abortion on her.
I read a report on late-term abortion in Quebec where it was reported that opting for abortion is often a knee-jerk reaction to a fatal diagnosis. The doctors don`t offer any alternatives, and the patient can’t imagine any other “alternative” so she thinks it’s the only choice.
I agree with both of you. Thanks for your comments.
It’s a sad indictment on our society that the CBC’s headline, “Wrong twin fetus aborted in Australia,” would have been a non-story if the headline had been, “Right twin fetus aborted in Australia (whew!).” That would have been business as usual. Nothing to see here.
Alana, I know. There is no “right” here. The only positive I can see is that there will never be a happy abortion story. This story, like all abortion stories, reminds us of the presence of evil in the world.
A woman in Calgary was charged with dumping her newborn in a garbage bin and leaving him to die. Police also suspect she is guilty of killing two other newborn babies.
Should we send condolences to her for losing her children?
If not, why are so many people sending condolences to this couple of this tragedy (check out the comments in the original story)?
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/more-news/medical-bungle-at-royal-womens-hospital-kills-healthy-fetus/story-fn7x8me2-1226204091220
Don’t they realize by sending condolences for the accidental death of one child as the family and doctors were killing their disabled child, they really are saying some people’s lives aren’t worth living.
The real tragedy is that these two boys lives will never be valued by anyone involved.
Since you brought up the Calgary story, Canbuhay, let me say something else that has been bothering me for some time. In the Calgary story, most reporters (or the people they quote) say it is very “rare” for a woman to kill her newborn children in this way. How do we know it’s rare? If the Calgary woman killed two children – whose bodies will never be found – how many more children are dumped in dumpters, rivers (a newborn’s body was found in the Fraser River earlier this year), deep in forests or simply buried in backyards? I fear that that the current culture of death has given women – albeit, deeply disturbed women – the “permission” to kill their children if they somehow “forgot” to abort it sooner, at public expense.