Aborted morals

by Letters Editor · May 24, 2010

From Franco De Grandis, Knysna:

I� was shocked by the case in Italy where a pregnant mother was allowed to have an abortion on the grounds that her 22-week-old foetus had malformations on the palate and lip, as you reported in the May 12 issue.

After the so-called therapeutic abortion, the 312g baby was placed in a container to await his death. However, the baby continued to breathe and was found still alive the next morning by the hospital chaplain. The baby died two days later. What a tragic case!

We live in a country where abortion is treated almost as a form of birth control, and where activists preach of �freedom of choice�. In the Italian case we see how close to homicide we�come�while practising�these apparent freedoms.

According to reports, the baby was put in a container and left to die. Obviously the doctors that put the baby there were aware that he was�still alive. The placenta, also�part of the abortion, was disposed of, and the baby was left to die.�It�seems that the doctors who perform abortions are used to aborted babies still being alive.

If this were not common practice, any humane�doctor, on seeing the baby alive some time�after the abortion, would be driven to do something to save the baby’s life.

It is also frightening that the mother was allowed a therapeutic abortion because the baby had a cleft palate and a hair-lip. In our�quest to have the perfect child we allow children like that to be killed.