Killing the wrong baby
An Australian woman is going to have twins. She is told by doctors that one of her babies had a congenital heart defect that – “if he survived” – would require numerous operations. The woman decides to abort the sick baby. However, the doctors, instead...
An Australian woman is going to have twins. She is told by doctors that one of her babies had a congenital heart defect that – “if he survived” – would require numerous operations. The woman decides to abort the sick baby.
However, the doctors, instead of killing the ill baby, “inject” the “wrong twin”. The hospital issues an apology. It is a “terrible tragedy”, they say. They soften the tragedy by helping the woman have “an emergency Caesarean to end the life of the sick foetus”. (Source BBC website, November 24).