It’s a “crisis” that a child survived an abortion?
Friends,
This story comes out of the UK. I am honestly shocked by the callous, cold hearted “doctor” quotes. This reminds me of the testimony from the recent PBA trials. Only now they are saying the same thing in the newspapers.
What have we become? Monsters!
Troy
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Live babies being born after abortions
By Rebecca Smith, Evening Standard Health Reporter
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/articles/11493605?version=1
Leading doctors today called for a major overhaul to avoid babies being born alive after abortions.
Pregnancy expert Professor Stuart Campbell has demanded rules should be tightened after it was revealed that at least nine babies are known to have survived terminations in recent years.
He said injections that were supposed to end their lives in the womb failed to do so - and he called for stricter regulations to be enforced on the methods of abortion.
Professor Campbell said that all abortions carried out after 18 weeks of pregnancy should include an injection, followed by drugs, to induce labour and a stillborn child.
Some consultants only give the injection in abortions after 22 weeks. Others, he claims, do not use it at all.
Professor Campbell, who worked as an obstetrician at St George’s Hospital-Tooting, and pioneered 4D scanning of babies in the womb at the Create Health Centre for Reproduction and Advanced Technology in London, said: “It is really unfair on the nurses and the parents to see the baby making some sort of movement after birth.
“If after 18 weeks you just induce labour (without an injection first) a large number would be born with a heartbeat and most of them will survive with a heartbeat and will make movements.
“Certainly from 18 weeks they should inject the heart to stop it from beating, but not everyone does this. Guidance should be given by the Royal College.
“There are cases where the injection does not work but this is very rare.”
One baby with Down’s Syndrome was to be aborted at a hospital in the home counties but lived. It was transferred to St George’s Hospital, where it received neonatal intensive care and survived. It is believed to have been adopted.
Next week a motion is being tabled at the British Medical Association conference that babies should be entitled to all the intensive care that babies born prematurely receive. Consultant obstetrician-Jim Thornton said in the past babies were born alive after abortion more regularly but “people didn’t make a fuss and pretended not to realise the baby was born alive”.
He said that if a baby were to be born alive and viable then it must be given medical help but there was a “grey area” where babies born in this manner at 22 or 23 weeks were on the cusp of being able to survive. Only 17 per cent of babies born normally at 23 weeks survive.
Professor Thornton, of City Hospital, Nottingham, said: “Once it is born, you can’t kill the baby but the law doesn’t say anything about to what degree you resuscitate it.
“The way it is dealt with is by sensible doctors and sensible nurses keeping it under their hat and allowing the baby to pass away peacefully.”
Professor Campbell does not believe that a baby born in this way should be kept alive at all costs.
“What paediatricians do is spend resources keeping a baby that is going to die, alive. It is absolute nonsense. It does show that is up to us (obstetricians) to make sure the baby is not moving.”
Guidance issued by the Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynaecologists states that a legal abortion must not be allowed to result in a live birth.
But Professor Campbell says it does not make clear at what stage it is necessary to stop the heartbeat before abortion.
Find this story at http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/articles/11493605?version=1
©2004 Associated New Media
June 24th, 2004 at 4:39 pm
the lack of commetary by the poor choicers on this link is not surprising - as long as they can twist and contort language in order to cloud the ultimate facts of abortion - as long as they can flit from one false argument to another, never stopping long enough to actually answer the thoughtful, documented and thorough rebuttals from those of us who are prolife - then they can maintain the illusion of some sort of ‘viable’ argument (pun intended).
but to see the abortion industry pressed with the “dreaded complication” of a live birth, is to see them in their true light. “yes, it’s a baby, and yes, it’s alive, and yes, we tried to kill it, and yes, something went wrong……but hey - that woman contracted with us for a DEAD BABY and by george - she’s going to get one!”.
if you have had an abortion, i urge you to seek compassionate counseling from carenet, lumina, rachel’s vineyard, or your local cpc. God can and will forgive you if you confess that sin and call it what it really is - the taking of a human life.
if you are pregnant and considering abortion, i urge you to seek compassionate help from your local cpc, carenet, heartbeat international, etc….. you don’t have to go it alone. but know that you are already a mother, even now. abortion will not change that fact - it will only make you the mother of dead baby.
if you support abortion, then i would urge you to actually do some investigation of the facts - don’t just cling to a mindless opinion based on simplistic, misleading slogans that have no real basis in reality. check out some of the links on this site and ask yourself - can i support this and still have a clear conscience?
if you oppose abortion, then i urge you to get involved and help bring this holocaust to an end.