Matthitjah Posted May 29, 2006 Group: Royal Member Followers: 4 Topic Count: 1,285 Topics Per Day: 0.16 Content Count: 17,917 Content Per Day: 2.27 Reputation: 355 Days Won: 19 Joined: 10/01/2002 Status: Offline Share Posted May 29, 2006 Quote The Daily Mail; Babies aborted for not being perfect 20:32pm 28th May 2006 Reader comments (5) Look here too...Skip gossip links to more articles Women taking suspect pill doubles The history of the abortion pill The ethical storm over abortions has been renewed as it emerged that terminations are being carried out for minor, treatable birth defects. Late terminations have been performed in recent years because the babies had club feet, official figures show. Babies are being aborted with only minor defects. Other babies were destroyed because they had webbed fingers or extra digits. Such defects can often be corrected with a simple operation or physiotherapy. The revelation sparked fears that abortion is increasingly being used to satisfy couples' desire for the 'perfect' baby. A leading doctor said people were right to be 'totally shocked' that abortions were being carried out for such conditions. Campaigners warned we are turning into a society that can no longer tolerate imperfection. Doctors were recently told they can now screen IVF embryos to try to weed out inherited cancers. Ethical groups fear parents are opting for abortions because they are not told of the support and help available if they continued with the pregnancy. Details of the terminations emerged as new figures revealed an alarming rise in the use of an abortion pill that has been linked to 10 deaths. Figures from the Office for National Statistics show that between 1996 and 2004, 20 babies were aborted after 20 weeks because they had a club foot. It is one of the most common birth defects in Britain, affecting one in 1,000 babies each year. That means around 600 to 700 babies are born annually in the UK with the problem, which causes the feet to point downwards and in severe cases can cause a limp. However it can be corrected without surgery using splints, plaster casts and boots. Naomi Davis, a leading paediatrician at Manchester Children's Hospital who specialists in correcting club feet, said: 'I think it is reasonable to be totally shocked that abortion is being offered for this. 'It is entirely treatable. I can only think it is lack of information.' Figures also show that four babies were aborted since 1996 because they were found to have webbed fingers or extra digits, which can be sorted out with simply surgery. Remarkable pictures recently have revealed how at just 23 weeks baby in the womb appears to smile, yawn and flinch in pain. In 2004 it emerged a baby was aborted at 28 weeks after scans showed it had a cleft palate. Curate Joanna Jepson tried to ensure criminal charges were brought against the two doctors involved but the authorities last year decided against prosecution. She however vowed to continue in her fight to make terminations illegal after 24 weeks and to ensure cleft palates were not included within the term 'serious handicap' and used to justify late abortions. Ms Jepson reacted angrily to news of the club foot abortions. 'The law was not designed for this,' she said. 'Actions like these are fostering a disposable attitude to human life and I'm extremely concerned it is going on. 'I am appalled that the medical profession is allowing or even suggesting abortions for these conditions.' Sue Banton, founder of the group Steps for parents of children with foot disorders, said last year one couple decided to terminate a pregnancy at 25 weeks after discovering their baby would have a section of foot missing. 'We gave them other families to talk to, but they just didn't want to know,' she said. 'It is terrible. 'I know lots of perfectly nice people with this condition and you just can't imagine them not being here.' Pippa Spriggs from Cambridge, whose son Isaac is celebrating his second birthday in July, was dismayed when as scan showed her baby had a club foot. 'Abortion certainly was not openly advised but it was made clear to me it was available,' she said. 'In fact he has been treated and the condition has now slowed him down at all.' Julia Millington, of the Alive and Kicking Campaign, said: 'It is all about our perceptions of perfection. 'Increasingly things are moving along the lines where nothing is good enough. 'It seems we can no longer tolerate any imperfection. 'Babies are at the mercy of ultrasound scans and what they may disclose.' Michaela Aston, from the pro-life group LIFE, said: 'One sympathises for many of the parents of these unborn children aborted after disability has been detected. 'What information are they being given by healthcare professionals so that they can make a truly informed choice? 'We suspect that many parents make the decision to opt for abortion in complete ignorance of the help and support available to children with disabilities and their families. 'For this, health care professionals must shoulder a large part of the blame. 'If, as a society, we are truly committed to equality for people with disabilities then such blatant discrimination against the disabled unborn must stop.' But Jane Fisher of the charity Antenatal Results and Choices defended the right of parents to terminate pregnancies when defects are found. 'This is not part of a move towards designer babies,' she said. 'These are difficult and painful issues.' http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/arti...e#StartComments Jesus have Mercy. Have Mercy merciful Lord, have Mercy. Peace, Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tah Posted May 29, 2006 Group: Royal Member Followers: 1 Topic Count: 105 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 3,131 Content Per Day: 0.45 Reputation: 126 Days Won: 1 Joined: 05/12/2005 Status: Offline Share Posted May 29, 2006 About 14 to 15 years ago my cousin was told by her doctor she should have an abortion because her child was probably a spina bifida baby.. She was mortified but chose to have the baby anyhow.. the child was perfect and had no defect whatsoever.. I just thank God she had the moral background to keep her child... tragic when we kill our little ones for whatever reason we can come up with.. senseless horrific tragedy... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peaches Posted May 29, 2006 Group: Royal Member Followers: 1 Topic Count: 95 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 2,315 Content Per Day: 0.30 Reputation: 14 Days Won: 0 Joined: 06/25/2003 Status: Offline Share Posted May 29, 2006 makes me wanna puke! seriously....things like this make me so mad and i get so sick to the pits of my stomach! shame on these vain women who do this. shame on them! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Electric Angel Posted May 29, 2006 Group: Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 3 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 45 Content Per Day: 0.01 Reputation: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 05/26/2006 Status: Offline Share Posted May 29, 2006 makes me wanna puke! seriously....things like this make me so mad and i get so sick to the pits of my stomach! shame on these vain women who do this. shame on them! Agreed. Shame indeed. It's interesting to watch the feminists back peddle over the coupling of ultrasound with abortion. Pregnant women in India are using ultrasound to determine the gender of their babies (oops, sorry, amorphous clump of cells, Ms. Steinem) and if they are females, they get aborted. This is because it makes more economical sense to have a son in India rather than a daughter. Of course this means that women seeking abortion are responsible for the world's biggest femicide. Feminists hate it because if they want to condemn it, they have to admit that the fetuses are, in fact, human beings if they want the charge of murder to stick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ChrisW Posted May 29, 2006 Share Posted May 29, 2006 I believe only GOD has the power to say who can and can't live. I don't mean this in a negitive way. I simply mean GOD controls the "Time Line" of all of our lives and he knows when it's our time to die, but for people it have babies killed off just because they are so called not perfect it EXTREMELY wrong! By the way, who is perfect, not a single one of us here. Only Jesus is. This saddens me so much that the babies didn't even have a chance to live, but at least they get to be with our Lord. I feel sorry for these people because GODs wrath will be great on them that consent to this type of thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sisterinchrist Posted May 29, 2006 Group: Junior Member Followers: 1 Topic Count: 75 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 111 Content Per Day: 0.02 Reputation: 2 Days Won: 0 Joined: 10/13/2005 Status: Offline Birthday: 02/02/1953 Share Posted May 29, 2006 that is just terrible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RGR Posted May 30, 2006 Group: Royal Member Followers: 2 Topic Count: 512 Topics Per Day: 0.07 Content Count: 8,601 Content Per Day: 1.13 Reputation: 125 Days Won: 2 Joined: 07/16/2003 Status: Offline Birthday: 12/04/1973 Share Posted May 30, 2006 When my wife was pregnant with our now 10 year old son she was sent by the crackpot doctor to St. Louis to a hospital there for tests to be ran since he claimed to be afraid of Down Syndrome (which ran in my wife's side of the family). Well we went in for counseling for them to tell us all of what could be done and they point blank told us that a lot of people choose to "terminate" the pregnancy! When my wife, her mother, and myself all told them that was not even going to be considered, they got all funny and asked then what need was there for them to run tests if we were going to keep the baby!!!! He is now a perfectly normal, handsome 10 year old boy!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peaches Posted May 30, 2006 Group: Royal Member Followers: 1 Topic Count: 95 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 2,315 Content Per Day: 0.30 Reputation: 14 Days Won: 0 Joined: 06/25/2003 Status: Offline Share Posted May 30, 2006 awesome testimoney ronald. i wonder how people who do this cannot consider the fact that things like what happened to u and ur wife ronald happen all the time! all these lives being murdered! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
apothanein kerdos Posted May 30, 2006 Group: Royal Member Followers: 1 Topic Count: 331 Topics Per Day: 0.05 Content Count: 8,713 Content Per Day: 1.20 Reputation: 21 Days Won: 0 Joined: 07/28/2004 Status: Offline Share Posted May 30, 2006 Here's what I don't understand...we say it is our constitutional right to have an abortion....does the Constitution really protect Hitler style killings? Hitler didn't just kill Jews, he killed all undesirables/unwanted. This meant people with mental and physical handicaps....is that not exactly what these people are doing? They are no better than Hitler. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Giaour Posted May 30, 2006 Group: Royal Member Followers: 1 Topic Count: 179 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 3,941 Content Per Day: 0.55 Reputation: 3 Days Won: 0 Joined: 10/28/2004 Status: Offline Birthday: 10/08/1964 Share Posted May 30, 2006 The constitution of the US does not allow late term abortions like the ones discribed above. I believe that story was talking about Brittain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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