From The Uk's Times Online comes this disturbing article:
A GOVERNMENT agency is launching an inquiry into doctors' reports that up to 50 babies a year are born alive after botched National Health Service abortions.
The investigation, by the Confidential Enquiry into Maternal and Child Health (CEMACH), comes amid growing unease among clinicians over a legal ambiguity that could see them being charged with infanticide.
The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, which regulates methods of abortion, has also mounted its own investigation.
Its guidelines say that babies aborted after more than 21 weeks and six days of gestation should have their hearts stopped by an injection of potassium chloride before being delivered. In practice, few doctors are willing or able to perform the delicate procedure.
For the abortion of younger foetuses, labour is induced by drugs in the expectation that the infant will not survive the birth process. Guidelines say that doctors should ensure that the drugs they use prevent such babies being alive at birth.
In practice, according to Stuart Campbell, former professor of obstetrics and gynaecology at St George's hospital, London, a number do survive.
"They can be born breathing and crying at 19 weeks' gestation," he said. "I am not anti-abortion, but as far as I am concerned this is sub-standard medicine."
Read the full article here.
How can anyone argue that this is not human life. That it's just a worthless blob of tissue. For Pete's sake, they have to make sure they give enough freakin medicine to kill the child or else they come out ALIVE. Living. As in breathing with a heartbeat.
I believe there will come a day when we look back on this issue with the disgust that it deserves. When abortion will be but an awful memory that we shake our heads at, much like the Holocaust and slavery. This will be an ugly mark on our nation's history when we finally wake up and realize the savagery of it and finally stand up and protect life.
