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: December 12, 2007
32 week old baby aborted in a "lifesaving" procedure.

According to an article on theAge.au.com, a 32 week old baby was aborted because the child's mother was "distressed to the point of being suicidal" as a result of learning that her unborn child was diagnosed with dwarfism.

The doctor who performed the abortion called the killing of this child "lifesaving." While the mother may not have committed suicide, her baby was needlessly killed for its disability, so to call this a lifesaving procedure falls short of reality.

Lachlan de Crespigny and a handful of other doctors wanted to help her. So, on a Thursday afternoon in February 2000, they did as she asked. The role that Associate Professor de Crespigny played -- injecting potassium chloride into the foetus's heart -- took only a minute or two. .."It was lifesaving," he says now of the procedure that he insists he had a moral obligation to perform. "If we didn't do it and the woman died we would have potentially been charged with manslaughter and gone to jail. So in a legal sense, you could argue that we were compelled to offer it."

So the baby's heart was stopped, and presumably it was delivered the same way any other baby is delivered - the only difference being that the child was killed beforehand.

The sad thing is, both mother and child could have lived, if given the correct psychological and medical treatment.

It goes without saying that suffering from mental problems should not give someone a pass to kill another - if it does, then none of us are very safe.

Of course, many would say that denying the mother an abortion would be forcing her to carry a baby she doesn't want. Well, fist of all, Mother Nature is doing that by default, and not anybody else. If anybody is forcing something, it is the mother herself - she is forcing a deadly end upon her unborn child.

And the reality is that it is much worse to end the life of the unborn child than to deny the mother an abortion. Unfortunately, our world has been numbed to the inhumanity of abortion, and sees things the other way around.

Though the article paints the doctor in a soft light, Professor de Crespigny is no stranger to the practice of late term abortion, having performed an untold number over the past 30 years. Not only does he perform them, but he's an unapologetic advocate of them as well.


Posted by Ruben at December 12, 2007 11:03 AM

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I wish I knew what the hell was up with that mother. Was she stressed and overwhelmed and in need of proper mental health services? Or was she one of those manipulative ****** who has learned that some doctors will do anything on behalf of a woman who sufficiently goes into the proper hysterics about how much her fetus is ruining her life?

Either way the doctors ought to have known better. Were she hysterical in the delivery room, saying that she'd kill herself if they didn't immediately step on her newborn's head, would they have done it?

Posted by: Christina on December 12, 2007 3:52 PM


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