And Salmone said, “Give me the head of John the Baptist”…
You probably haven’t heard about this. A woman in Italy was pregnant with twins. Prenatal testing revealed one of the twins had Down’s Syndrome. So the distraught couple decided to abort that twin. The doctor messed up and aborted the healthy child and shortly afterwards aborted the Down’s Syndrome child. Let the law suits begin, but as the Vatican points out this very public Italian case brings to light the horrors of modern medicine, from The Times Online:
The mother, who has a small son, said that her life had been ruined. “Neither my husband nor I can sleep at night,” she told the Corriere della Sera, which first reported the blunder. She said that the happiness she and her husband had experienced when they learnt that she was expecting twins had been transformed into heartbreak.
Her husband said that they were “truly desperate over this terrible mistake” and were consulting family lawyers.
The episode has been seized upon by Catholics campaigning to have the abortion law repealed. L’Osservatore Romano, the Vatican newspaper, said: “No one has the right to suppress another life and take the place of God for any motive whatever.” The paper said that selective abortion amounted to eugenics, stemming from “a culture of perfection”. The Association of Catholic Doctors said that selective abortion was “the fruit of an egoistic culture”, while Luca Volontè, a Christian Democrat politician, said that the Milan mistake amounted to infanticide.
Filed under: Catholic, abortion, life issues
