It happened again, this time in Australia.
A woman was advised that one of her twins would have serious medical issues, so she decided to abort that twin.
The hospital made a mistake during the procedure. The twin without medical issues was killed. And then the other twin was also aborted.
It has also happened in Italy and the United States. Here are the headlines for each:
Australia: Hospital kills wrong baby, aborts twin.
Italy: Italian police to investigate abortion of wrong twin
United States: Doctor loses license after aborting wrong twin
Every headline is mistaken. There is no ‘wrong’ twin in any of these circumstances. Only helpless unborn babies, every one of them.
The only reason any of these babies was chosen to be aborted was because of potential disabling conditions.
The answer isn’t better medical tests or more specific hospital guidelines, but changed hearts that rush to help mothers and babies rather than destroy them.
And where were the fathers?
Lord, please, change our hearts for the sake of the little ones!
Oh, John! This is heartbreaking and makes me physically ill! God, change our hearts indeed!!!
I’m a twin myself. I don’t make right choices as often as my twin does. I’m glad I’m not the “wrong” twin. They don’t seem to get very much. Then, isn’t everyone really “wrong” people? Whether wrong or right we’re all human and we all deserve a chance at life.
My heart breaks/aches for thse innocent children. I am fighting the tears!
Matthew McGee – possibly the most interesting internet comment I’ve ever seen…
may our great God forgive us for our ignorance and appreciate every gift from above in the form of a child. may these women and doctors find Jesus and quickly!!!
Having a sister with special needs I’ve come to realize “special needs” is a misleading term. If I define the human (as has our culture largely has) primarily as matter or matter-then-soul or soul-plus-body then any disability that is deviant from what I can gather by my five senses will be “special”. But if I see the human as Adonai reveals in His Word, between the beasts and the angels, a unified whole now riddled with chaos, I will know that there are as many disabilities (probably more) that I cannot apprehend with my five senses and categorize as “special”.
Does not my Father see my pride, my envious self-loathing that tends towards despair, my cowardly unbelief as much more crippling than any physical malady?
There are no “special needs”, just needs. I have a disability but one that is more convenient (thus more dangerous) in that I can conceal behind/beneath a sound mind and body.
Jared,
Thank you for your vulnerable, truthful (for every human being) and articulate thoughts. So true for EVERY one of us.
Spot on like a laser. – – “Does not my Father see my pride, my envious self-loathing that tends towards despair, my cowardly unbelief as much more crippling than any physical malady?”
how amazingly sad! one has to ask WHY??? would parents do such a thing to their child, especially parents who evidently want to be parents? this makes me so sad and so angry at the same time. why are physicians and parents allowed to “play God” and take the lives of innocent babies??? this is so wrong
Wow, terrible world we’re living in. Good point but poor children. Indeed we should pray for changed hearts of mothers and doctors for the sake of saved lives of the babies.
Tragic cases of doctors and parents trying to play God!
Clearly this is wrong. What frustrates me is that there are so many Christians who claim that they are opposed to abortion, but they get more mad at those of us who speak out against it than they do against the industry itself. I once talked to a “pro-life” pastor on-line who refused to speak against it from the pulpit because he wanted the pro-choice members of his church to know that he “loved” them.
-Daniel
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This post his very close to home. My wife and I have two sets of twin girls. The second set is three months old. Baby B, Caroline is a seemingly healthy baby while her sister Abby has down syndrome, spina bifida, and choanal atresia. The specialists offered my wife the chance to “reduce” but that was out of the question. Can’t imagine not having either of them with us.
There needs to be more info at the OB office itself. Parents need to have info in their hands when they go home after hearing this news. This is a tough decision for most people especially folks without Christ. If only I could talk to each new Mom who gets a diagnosis like this that this little one will probably bless their life more then any other event.
Thanks for posting.
Imagine a rally of people who are twins, carrying signs that say “I AM THE WRONG TWIN.”
If I was a twin, I would do it.
Apparenlty, unless you are going to have a perfect life(in human terms), you don’t deserve to live at all. if a parent perceives that you will struggle or you may force them to struggle, the more convenient thing to do is to deny you any chance of any life at all.
How tragic that we have become the giver and taker of life. How appropriate that we should usurp God’s role? God, through Nathan was the one who took david’s son from him for david’s transgression. We have become the judge, determining the baby’s future by examining his/her potential impact on our lives. The Sin of pride. Man’s fall from the beginning.
My son is 23 years old and has autism and a seizure disorder. I would not have chosen this and if God had given me multiple choices of disabilities, I would have chosen anything other than autism. So grateful he didn’t. I would have missed a beautiful boy with so much to teach. I’m not minimizing the extreme difficulties involved, but many of the important lessons God has taught me and continues to teach me, I’ve learned from being his mom. He is “fearfully and wonderfully made.”
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