Baby boy survives for nearly two days after abortion

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The 22-week infant died one day later in intensive care at a hospital in the mother's home town of Rossano in southern Italy.

The mother, pregnant for the first time, had opted for an abortion after prenatal scans suggested that her baby was disabled.

However, the infant survived the procedure, carried out on Saturday in the Rossano Calabro hospital, and was left by doctors to die.

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 priest raised the alarm and doctors immediately arranged for the infant to be taken to a specialist neo-natal unit at the neighbouring Cosenza hospital, where he died on Monday morning.

Italian police are investigating the case for "homicide" because infanticide is illegal in Italy.

The law means that doctors have had an obligation to try to preserve the life of the child once he had survived the abortion.

The Italian government is also considering an inquiry into the conduct of the hospital staff.

Eugenia Roccella, the under-secretary of state in the health department, on Wednesday night promised a government inquiry into the incident.

“The minister of health will send inspectors to the hospital in Rossano Calabro to investigate what actually happened, and to see if the Law 194, which prohibits abortion when there is a possibility of the foetus living separately from the mother, and permits it only when the continuation of the pregnancy would result in life-threatening danger to the mother.”

She said that if initial information is correct, “this would be a case of deliberate abandonment of a seriously premature neonate, possibly also with some form of disability, an act contrary to any sense of human compassion but also of any accepted professional medical practice".

She added: “We must remember that a baby, once born, is an Italian citizen equal to all the others, and is entitled to all fundamental rights, including the right to health and therefore to be given full support.”

The case has reignited controversy on the legality of abortion in the Roman Catholic country.

It could also raise questions in Britain over the legal upper limits for abortion and the viability of the foetus – or its ability to survive outside of the womb.

A spokesman for the ProLife Alliance said: "There cannot be anybody in the world who is not horrified by a story like this nor anybody in the UK who would not support a massive reduction in the upper limit for abortion."

Most abortions at 22 weeks simply involve the induction of the birth which normally results in the death of a young foetus.

The case is causing uproar in Italy because it is the second involving a foetus of that age surviving the procedure in just three years.

The other involved a baby in Florence who weighed just 17oz when he was aborted at 22 weeks because of a suspected genetic disorder, but lived for three days.

Since 1978, abortion has been available on demand in Italy in the first three months of pregnancy but is restricted to specific circumstances – such as disability- in the second trimester. The government is considering a review of the working of the laws.

The case also comes as figures in Britain revealed last week that the number of babies born weighing only 2lbs has more than doubled in just two years.

Yet the proportion of tiny babies born stillborn has nearly halved, the health service statistics have shown.

The figures do not reveal at what stage the babies were born but a child weighing under 2lbs is likely to have been born at least three months early.

They will inevitably include some born alive at an age when they could, in other circumstances, have been aborted.

More than 200,000 abortions are performed each year, most for non-medical reasons within the legal upper limit of 24 weeks gestation.

The increasing number of babies surviving below 24 weeks, partly because of advances in medicine, has led to widespread calls for the legal upper limit to be further reduced.

Attempts to lower the limit failed in Parliament in 2008.

In 2005 a baby boy in Manchester was born alive at 24 weeks after surviving three attempts to abort him. He is now a five-year-old schoolboy.

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heart wrenching stuff

[Maxaatiri]

Right-Wing propaganda. If they wanted to highlight the full story, why result to such basic and emotive language. Cheapens the entire agenda.

 

With that said, I wonder how the parents of that boy who survived three attempts to abort him look him in the eye every morning. He will have to find out one day.

[Chocolate and Honey]

I agree with you. Another ploy to limit the time a waman can abort. How could those women stand it though? I mean having someone rip a child from their womb!

[-Lily-]

^^^Are you serious? Why shouldn’t it be reduced? Who knows the exact moment when a foetus feels pain?

 

Maxaatiri, if a baby left to die a suffering death is not something to get emotive about then pray tell what is?

 

This said baby, was said to have a cleft. A cleft is fixed with a simple operation. Thousands of children in the world are born with clefts and live normal lives with the right help.

[Gheelle.T]

Unless there is serious medical danger or complication for the mother, one should not abort a baby regardless of any disability the baby may have. This is a case where "woman's right to abort" is misused and has gone awfully wrong. The little Poor life was breathing for 24 hours while wrapped in a blanket.

[Chocolate and Honey]

^^^Are you serious? Why shouldn’t it be reduced? Who knows the exact moment when a foetus feels pain?

Nothing whips people into a frenzy than abortions gone wrong. If they wanted to reduce the limit, they could do so by simply looking at statistics, scientific findings and methods. I hate articles like this because all they good for is stir emotions and arouse anti-abortion loonies to burn down buildings. As a Muslim I would never do it or advice any OTHER Muslim woman to do for the sake of getting rid of a "problem." But in general, women should have the rights to do it if they feel neccessary. Problem is, this is one of those problems that look simple on the outside(pro or anti)but has underlying complexities.

[Tuujiye]

^^ if you think is wrong, why do you want woman to do it in general abaayo? you think is wrong your self and since you wouldn't do it why is it right for others to do it?

 

Geele is right maraxa.. hooyada hadee halis ku jirto bas ayaa la sameyn karaa waxaas...

 

 

Wareer Badanaa!!!

[Chocolate and Honey]

^^ if you think is wrong, why do you want woman to do it in general abaayo? you think is wrong your self and since you wouldn't do it why is it right for others to do it?

I think it is wrong because of my beliefs. Diinteyda ayaa ka soo horjeeda but that doesnt mean people who dont have the same beliefs as me should be stripped from their rights to their bodies. People who are Anti-abortion have other beef with this practice. They put the live of a fetus over that of the mother. So if you open this door, soon NO ONE will be spared regardless of the situation and women will have to resort(as they've always done since the down of time and still do in underdeveloped countries)to performing these surgeries in shady, unsanitary houses in horrific manners where they contract all kinds of diseases. Making abortion illegal WONT stop anyone. Google abortion in the 18/1900 hundreds and you'll see why many women are prochoice.

[Geel_jire]

^ there is not a rights issue, why should a woman have the right to kill a healthy baby just because it inconveniences her.

 

Imagine If I were allowed to pop every person that inconveniences me ... the world would be a lonely place

 

the only exception should be if the mothers health is in immediate danger.The people who have a beef with abortion also oppose it on religious or moral grounds .. not some mythical oppress women agenda.

 

otherwise how do you explain the large number of women who also are anti-abortion.

 

these right wing nut jobs got a few things right especially this anti-abortion thinkg, and the homos.

 

maxaa la odhan jiray 'Gaalka dil, gartiisa sii'

[General Duke]

Originally posted by chocolate & honey:

quote:

I think it is wrong because of my beliefs. Diinteyda ayaa ka soo horjeeda but that doesnt mean people who dont have the same beliefs as me should be stripped from their rights to their bodies.

That makes no sense my dear. If your belief prevent you from doing it. It is also wrong for anyone else to do it. If you can justify someone of a different faith carrying it out, then you can also justify it for someone of your faith.

 

Its a no.

[ailamos]

banning abortion will only increase illegal underground abortions

[ailamos]

Originally posted by General Duke:

If your belief prevent you from doing it. It is also wrong for anyone else to do it. If you can justify someone of a different faith carrying it out, then you can also justify it for someone of your faith.

That doesn't make sense Duke.

[ailamos]

Since we're on this topic, what do you think of abortion in cases of rape?

[Chocolate and Honey]

Aheey. Ha igu soo boodina aniga.

 

First of all,

 

^ there is not a rights issue, why should a woman have the right to kill a healthy baby just because it inconveniences her.

 

Imagine If I were allowed to pop every person that inconveniences me ... the world would be a lonely place

 

the only exception should be if the mothers health is in immediate danger.The people who have a beef with abortion also oppose it on religious or moral grounds .. not some mythical oppress women agenda.

NOBODY is killing a live, healthy baby hence the limit of time. A sperm is NOT a baby. It's illegal to kill a live, healthy baby. Stop with the emotional B.S. You certainly have your right to be against it for whatever reason. The people who are against it dont beleive in choice. They dont discreminate the choices. For instance, if you're a 14-year old girl raped in a foster home by an infected HIV positive dude OR you are a 30year old woman who is had unprotected sex and whose life plan doesnt include having a baby, IT MAKES NO DIFFERENCE TO THEM. It also makes no difference, if the MOTHER is having complications or whatnot because a life and a possible life is the same to them.

 

GENERAL,

 

That makes no sense my dear. If your belief prevent you from doing it. It is also wrong for anyone else to do it. If you can justify someone of a different faith carrying it out, then you can also justify it for someone of your faith.

:confused: :confused: What are you on about????

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