I just finished reading the most appalling story I’ve heard in a long time. An abortion doctor in Sarasota, Florida lost his license after performing a procedure in which a woman carrying twins (one of whom was thought to have Downs syndrome) requested a selective abortion to eliminate the child who apparently didn’t meet her standards of healthy normalcy.
In the course of the procedure, which involves injecting deadly chemicals into the heart of the child being “selected” for abortion, the physician killed the wrong child. A week later, after learning that the “reduction” had gone wrong, the woman once again opted to have the child killed.Two babies conceived via in vitro fertilization.
Two babies dead.
Years of medical training wasted.
A “mother” who will have to bear the burden of deciding to have her children killed.
A physician whose response to finding his license revoked was to voice his desire to commit suicide.
Tragic on every level.
Please visit My Chocolate Heart for a thoughtful analysis of this situation. And visit also The Case of the Errant Embryo for another tale of reproductive technology gone wrong. And please - please -pray for all those involved, especially the babies whose lives were created, then destroyed.
This is heartbreaking stuff. I'd be lying if I said this wasn't the natural outgrowth of taking creation and destruction out of God's hands and putting them in our own. The situation is sad and frustrating enough that the words I want to use for emphasis, are words I probably shouldn't stain your combox with.
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ReplyDeleteI heard about this. Heartbreaking and a sad picture of our world today.