Baby ‘abortion’ argument is crossing the line’
Andrew Bolt of Herald Sun
– March 05, 2012
I HAVE written about cases so shocking that whatever you think of abortion – for, against or agonised like me – I thought you’d agreed.
Yes, here a boundary was crossed. This, at least, is too much like murder.
There was the 2000 case of the “abortion” of Jessica, a healthy 32-week-old foetus, after her deeply distressed mother threatened suicide if made to give birth.
The mother thought Jessica could be a dwarf, which meant bad luck. But on “delivery” of the girl, killed in the womb, a nurse at Melbourne’s Royal Women’s recorded: “The baby doesn’t look small.”
I thought this would at least prompt restrictions on the abortion of healthy babies so close to birth.
I was wrong. (more…)










