Yesterday, the Telegraph reported that there was a bit of fiddling with the figures on the cost of abortion to the taxpayer. As Lord Alton has rightly complained, Parliament was badly misled. Originally, the Department of Health said that £90m was spent on abortions in 2009-10, with only £8m going to independent providers (notably Marie Stopes and the BPAS) with the rest being paid to NHS organisations.
Now it turns out that the Department of Health is admitting that "organisations have interpreted guidance on collecting costs in different ways" and that there is a more reliable figure to be had on the basis of returns that must be made by law to the Chief Medical Officer by law.
So actually it turns out that £118m was spent on abortions in 2010, with £75m going to independent providers and the rest (£44m) to the NHS.
Not £8m for private clinics but £75m. Yes, Minister. Concerns have been raised about the calculations.
Today's news is even less cheery: the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists have published their new Guideline on The Care of Women Requesting Induced Abortion. Rorate Caeli posts a horrific section dealing with late abortions. As he says: Clear and to the point, quoting Recommendation 6.21:
Feticide should be performed before medical abortion after 21 weeks and 6 days of gestation to ensure that there is no risk of a live birth.the reason for this is given frankly:
failure to perform feticide could result in a live birth and survival, which contradicts the intention of the abortion.Well I suppose it does, really.
In the section quoted by Rorate Caeli, advice is given on exactly how to commit the feticide. Apparently Dilatation and Evacuation is abhorrent to most women who would rather that the baby was killed first. So the recommendation is to inject potassium chloride into the heart. There are other ways for staff not so good at giving intracardiac injections, but they are not quite so certain to kill.
These late abortions are usually carried out for fetal abnormality. (Abortion is allowed in Britain up to birth if the baby has a "fetal abnormality.") This very often means that the baby has Downs Syndrome. You don't see many people with Downs Syndrome on the streets nowadays. Now you know what is happening to them.
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These figures are appalling. The fact that Catholic taxpayers are helping to fund baby killing is the dark side of democracy. However, I find the cold cruel words of the Royal Society even more offensive. The practice of abortion has dehumanised the very doctors who should be straining every effort to defend the vulnerable and the innocent.
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And as a practical illustration from today's headlines, we have from the BBC, "Wrong twin aborted in Australia" (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-15870161). They injected the "wrong" 32-week-old foetus with the fatal drug.
Here in Australia earlier this week a healthy twin of 32 weeks gestation was mistakenly killed. His "wrong" brother was killed later.
from a friend (by email):
I was expecting a baby with a ‘lethal condition’, i.e. these babies have a short life expectancy, or miscarry before birth. I was very distressed about aone of the consultants who I knew did ‘fetal reduction’ (killing off one of triplets to make twins, etc.) having anything to do with my care. In the end I received excellent care, they were very kind, and having understood clearly our wish that the care of the baby was paramount, the whole department was made aware of our wishes and no mention was made of doing away with the baby.
Whilst some gynaecologists who do abortions have pathological mindsets , there are some who do not. I had a subsequent conversation with one of the obstetricians, in which I described how much love families can share with a baby, even if it only lives a very short while. He said that when inducing (=aborting if it is done before the baby can survive) a baby with fetal abnormality, he had occasionally followed the parents’ wishes that the baby be born alive so the parents could cuddle him/her while it died. Nursing staff subsequently said that he should follow guidelines that ensured that the baby had been killed prior to delivery to avoid distress on the part of the attending staff.
Parents can choose one of two ways. The way that respects the baby’s life is not so hard in the long term and the parents express great peace. Parents who abort are often doing so because they have been told that the baby would suffer too much and they are doing it a favour. There is a whole structure set up, of a cosy room for delivery of the dead baby, dressing it up in a tiny clothes, photos, a remembrance book, etc. Whenever I am asked about these very sad situations of antenatal diagnosis, I always say from my experience, ’Choose life’.
YES the abortion figures ARE "fiddled" - but not in the way that you say.
The "natural" abortions, where a fertilsed zygote is created from the egg-sperm fusion (and therefore, according to loopy RC doctrine is a full human being) but fails to implant, or "drops out" within the first 20 days, or aborts of itself ...
Outnumber live births by about 3:1 - and always have done.
Unless and until the erm "thological" problem thus represented is dealt with, your posturings are meaningless.
There is also the other way to aviod artifical abortions,
PROPER BIRTH CONTROl.
But the RC church is against that as well, isn't it?
As for F. Oakley's post ... well the "vulnerable and the innoncent" also include all the victims of the RC church, don't they. thousands of raped boys and girls, for a start.
The hypocrisy is brathtaking.
Natural death does indeed occur more often than homicide - even in adults.
We've had proper birth control for quite some time now and schools have instructed children in it determindely. The abortion rate still seems to be going up, though, and sexually transmitted diseases.
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