Baby survives for two days after failed abortion attempt
This is a mobile post, please excuse any lack of proper formatting. Also I apologize in advance for not being able to link to a past post that I reference in this post, I will do so as soon as possible– probably Sunday.
It is stories like this that drive pro-lifers crazy.
A pregnant woman in Italy decided to have an abortion at 22 weeks. The abortion was carried out, but there was one little problem– the baby survived the abortion. Doctors left the baby unattended to let it die a slow, painful death. The baby was found alive, but it was too late to save him.
Pro-lifers contend that life begins at conception, but a case like this goes well beyond the argument of when life begins– it is quite obvious that this was a human life that was ignored and allowed to die as a result.
If this wasn’t a mobile post I would be able to link to a previous post of mine in which I quoted a person claiming that the original intent of the mother must be taken into account before medical attention can be administered to a baby that survives an abortion.
In other words– if the mother intended to abort the baby and the baby survived, that baby is not to be considered life and is ineligible for medical treatment. As disturbing as that theory is, it is even more disturbing when you realize that that was an argument being made during debate on a bill that would require a doctor to provide medical care for a baby that survived an abortion in Illinois.
It is even more disturbing still because the author of this statement is none other than Barack Obama.
He refused to vote to protect a child accidentally born alive during a failed abortion attempt– in Barack Obama’s America, the scenario that just happened it Italy would be allowed to happen here. It doesn’t matter whether you are pro-choice or pro-life, there are obvious cases of right and wrong– and this is one such case.
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This just grieves me. What has happened to compassion? God help us. I’m too bothered by this to say any more.
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The word “evil” comes to mind.
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That sums it up.
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I understand your feelings Dominique. How can anyone condone or defend this? It is absolutely digusting.
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This brings up a fine point of the law that has been ignored up until now.
I don’t know what the law is in Italy, but in the US a “born” child is a citizen.
This issue is used over and over and over to “legitimize” the presence of illegal aliens.
Why is it glossed over by the left when it applies to a baby who survives an abortion?
When an aborted baby in the US is set aside to die, the baby is killed by negligence. I think this is the thing that sets off even people who are pro-abortion who don’t like this practice. But I’ve never heard anyone actually articulate it as the negligent homicide of a natural-born citizen.
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That is a great response and question!
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As a firm believer in a woman’s right to choose and as a casual Pagan, the only thing I can really think of is that if that (or any) child survives an abortion, then perhaps that child really is meant to live. Whether that be by the hand of a god or God or goddess or sheer luck, a child who survives that deserves a second chance… And leaving it to die is… well, frankly it’s disgusting. It’s sort of like spitting in the face of a true medical and possibly natural miracle.
I read in another article that the mother decided to abort because ultrasound showed the child would have a cleft palate, and she didn’t want to ‘deal’ with it. Apparently, it’s the real deal, too. Even sadder.
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Regardless of a person’s stance on abortion I think that this is an issue we should all be on the same side of. How can a person sleep at night knowing that they didn’t help a baby survive and that in fact they let it die? You are right, there really is no other way to describe it other than disgusting.
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Imagine. You are in a room, and someone comes in and hits you with a bat. You wake up again in a hospital. But they are providing no care for you. Doctors walk by without saying anything, and you’re so hungry, so thirsty, yet no one will care for you. You’re in so much pain, unable to move from this uncomfortable floor. You feel as if you’re in a dream, no one trying to save you from this pain that drains your every last muscle. And soon, you feel spent, and die in this cold room, in so much pain, with no one that cares.
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I am deeply saddened by this incident. This baby should have been given a chance to live. God gave those doctors and nurses every sign that this baby was meant to live. They ignored it. There are so many women out there that are unable to have children that would have done anything to give this baby all the love and care that its own mother wouldn’t. But the doctors and nurses wouldn’t give this baby a fighting chance that God was trying to. What a crying shame.
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