Wrong baby killed in Down syndrome abortion

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Here's one you'll never see in the American Mainstream Media:

Vatican ire over botched twin abortion

Herald Sun, Australia, August 30, 2007

A BOTCHED abortion of a fetus instead of its Down syndrome twin has prompted the Vatican to compare abortion to the Nazis' selective breeding practices.

Italy was embroiled in a bitter ethical dispute yesterday after it emerged that a surgeon had accidentally terminated the wrong fetus while trying to abort its Down syndrome twin.

The operation on a 38-year-old woman 18 weeks into her pregnancy was performed at the San Paolo hospital in Milan in June but has only just come to light.

The fetus who had Down syndrome was also subsequently aborted.

Weighing into the controversy, the Vatican said aborting a Down syndrome child was the result of a culture of perfection resembling Nazi eugenics.

Read the entire story here.

This story was first carried in the Philipines on 8/27. And on Spero News (a Christian site 8/28) .That's it on Google News so far.

And this from Lifesite:

160 Healthy Babies Lost for Every 50 Down's Cases Detected with Amniocentesis

By Hilary White

LONDON, August 21, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The risks of amniocentesis to the unborn child have long been known but now a new analysis by a British doctor has shown that using the tests in seek-and-destroy missions for Down's syndrome and other genetic abnormalities results in the deaths of hundreds of healthy babies every year in Britain.

Dr. Hylton Meire, the retired physician and author of texts on ultrasound, calculates that for every 50 children with Down's Syndrome successfully identified and killed by abortion, 160 non-affected babies are lost by miscarriage after the test. His paper, published in the Journal of the British Medical Ultrasound Society, mainly emphasizes that the non-invasive test, called the foetal 'nuchal thickness' measurement, is not as useful as is widely thought because of the high incidents of false positives it gives.

Read entire story here.

All I can say is there's a lot of fear out there over something that shouldn't be feared. And yes, it is definitely eugenics. And it is definitely murder.

How sad that parents are willing to risk losing a "perfect" child to avoid an "imperfect" one.

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