The Background: Gruesome reports of forced abortions
continue to emerge from China, where a one-child policy has resulted in
untold death, chiefly targeting girls. So far, few American media have
circulated Monday's news of a U.S. State Department inquiry
into the case of Cao Ruyi, who anti-abortion activists say will be
required to abort her child this weekend if she fails to pay a
substantial ''social burden fee."
Tragically, we have no shortage of incidents that remind us of
abortion's horrors, intended and unintended. For example, last fall a
hospital in Australia mistakingly killed the wrong twin in a selective
abortion. Steven Ertelt, founder and editor of LifeNews.com, reports,
"The mother of the two babies had wanted to abort the baby who doctors
said had little chance to live. But now, both babies are dead." The
doctors told the mother that one of the unborn babies had a heart defect
that would require years of surgeries, if the child survived long
enough. The mother asked doctors to abort the one child while allowing
the other to live.
"However," Ertelt writes, "the abortion . . . went awry and the wrong
baby was injected with drugs meant to end his or her life."
The Implications: Peter Saunders, CEO of Christian Medical Medical Fellowship in the UK, responds,
"The story graphically illustrates the grim reality of the 'search and
destroy' approach to unborn babies with special needs. Such procedures
are now very common although very few involve twins."
His remarks deserve further reflection: Continue at John Starke
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