Posted by
Maudie in Mandeville on Monday, May 03, 2010 10:21:30 AM
The baby - weighing just 11oz - survived the abortion procedure, carried out on Saturday in Rossano, Italy's Calabro hospital, but was left by doctors to die.
Hippocratic Oath: Similarly I will not give to a woman an abortive remedy.
He was
discovered alive the following day – some 20 hours after the operation – by Father Antonio Martello, the hospital chaplain, who had gone to pray beside his body.
He found that the baby, wrapped in a sheet with his umbilical cord still attached, was moving and breathing.
The prelate said the case should "lead civil society to reflect on the tragic character of abortion, in so far as it is the suppression of a human being, and in this case, on the illicit character of the definition 'therapeutic'.
"In fact, it is not a 'cure' but reinforces the eugenic mentality that is spreading, and which not only increases recourse to abortion, but poses serious questions regarding the alleged benefit to the woman's health and on the natural meaning of maternity," he told L'Osservatore Romano, the Vatican newspaper.
"It also invites us to consider with what ease a person who is seriously malformed and simply undesired is treated inhumanly."
2002:
At the end of the hearing, according to the official records of the Illinois State senate, Obama thanked Stanek for being “very clear and forthright,” but said his concern was that Stanek had suggested “doctors really don’t care about children who are being born with a reasonable prospect of life because they are so locked into their pro-abortion views that they would watch an infant that is viable die.” He told her, “That may be your assessment, and I don’t see any evidence of that. What we are doing here is to create one more burden on a woman and I can’t support that.”