From here:
BABIES that are surviving late-term abortions at Melbourne’s Royal Women’s Hospital might be being left on shelves to die, according to an Anglican minister.
Dr Mark Durie, minister of St Mary’s Caulfield, said staff were finding it hard to cope with a reported six-fold increase in late-term abortions at the Women’s since abortion was decriminalised in Victoria two years ago. He said because conscientious objection by medical staff was now illegal, the hospital could employ only people who endorsed late-term abortions.
Dr Durie is bringing a motion about late-term abortion to the annual Anglican synod, which opened in Melbourne last night.
He calls on the state government to answer five questions about late-term abortions:
■ How many are happening, and how late?
■ What are the reasons for the abortions?
■ Are those born alive receiving medical care, or what is their cause of death?
■ What has been the effect on staff morale at the Royal Women’s Hospital?
■ What has been the effect on staff recruitment?
He said in one case – not at the Women’s – a trainee was deeply traumatised when she was told to drop a living foetus in a bucket of formaldehyde.
The Anglican diocese of Melbourne backed decriminalising abortion in its submission to the Victorian Law Reform Commission review in 2007. Archdeacon Alison Taylor told The Age at the time that in some circumstances, such as foetal abnormality, abortion was the ”the least problematic solution”.
The Anglican diocese of Melbourne was, predictably, on the wrong side of this issue; let’s hope that that changes.
Abortion in Canada has been legal and unrestricted since 1988. In spite of its pretensions to speak on social justice matters with a “prophetic voice”, the Anglican Church of Canada continues to maintain a mealy-mouthed silence about abortion, including late-term abortion and the fate of aborted babies that survive – until being dropped into formaldehyde.
Horrible, horrible, horrible. Our judge will want answers.
I wonder how many late term abortions happen in Canada per year. I don’t suppose those sorts of stats are kept.
The hospitals have the stats – probably ‘kept under wraps’ as ‘privacy’ concerns.
In the future, the promoters of the Culture of Death – our present rulers – will be thought of in the same terms as Hitler and Stalin (though, of course, the mega-holocaust is much greater than anything H & S ever managed), and people will ask (as they now do of 1940s Germany) “How on earth can ordinary people have tolerated what happened? How can ordinary, civilised, decent people have sat quiet while THAT evil went on – often done in their name?”
Sorry John I don’t see that happening. It will only be worse, much worse.
Margo, that really depends upon what information is kept. For instance, it is possible that they only keep track of the number of D and C’s that are preformed. Not every D and C is an abortion; sometimes they are performed after a miscarrriage. So, in the case of early abortions, if you assume that every D and C that the hospital did is an abortion, your numbers will be much too high.
I suspect that there are very few doctors in Canada who would be willing to perform late term abortions – although that might just be optimism on my part. I’d really like to know the numbers.
I found a 52 page Statscan report here:
http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/82-223-x/82-223-x2006000-eng.pdf
And a pro life newsletter with a chart they got from Stats Can here:
http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/82-223-x/82-223-x2006000-eng.pdf
…but I can’t find the original document. According to the second source, out of 100,039 abortions preformed in Canada in 2004, 401 of them were at 20 weeks or later, but over 60,000 were of unknown gestation. If you assume that the unknown gestation abortions follow the same pattern as the known gestation abortions, slighly more than 1% of the abortions done in Canada in 2004 were done at later than 20 weeks gestation.
“He said in one case – not at the Women’s – a trainee was deeply traumatised when she was told to drop a living foetus in a bucket of formaldehyde.”
I nearly threw up! And I am not exagerated. I literally fealt sick.
What kind of stewards of God’s creation have we become? What of the Commandment that Jesus Christ gave ‘to love each other as I have loved you’? Or the second greatest Commandment ‘to do unto others as you would have done unto you’?
When will the people who call themselves “Christian” stand up and do something about this evil?
Yeah, me too.