Jill Stanek:
...the Telegraph carries an extended story, but here it is in a nutshell, from Sky News:
A baby boy who was left to die after a botched abortion has survived for two days.
The 22-week-old fetus later died in intensive care in the city of Rossano in southern Italy.
The baby's mother opted for a termination after scans suggested the child might be disabled.
The procedure was carried out at the Rossano Calabro hospital on Saturday but 20 hours after the operation the hospital chaplain was praying to the baby when he discovered it was still alive.
Father Antonio Martello informed doctors who immediately transferred the child to a specialist neo-natal unit at a neighbouring hospital where he died on Monday.
Italian police are investigating if there is a case for homicide or abandonment because according to Italian law, doctors have a legal obligation to preserve the life of the baby after it survives an abortion.
The Italian government is also considering an investigation into the conduct of the hospital staff....
And what was the baby's disability? According to Catholic.net:
Prenatal scans had shown two malformations in the boy, in his palate and lip.
Cleft lip and palate.
3 comments:
Oh man this just left a hole in my gut
Wow, the story was bad enough the first time I read it, but hearing that the 'deformity' was cleft lip? What a sad window into our disregard for life.
That left me in tears, with a knot in the pit of my stomach. How could someone do that?
This shows, once again, how broken and evil this world is. I'm ready for my King to come back.
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