Thursday, the American Civil Liberties Union sued Trinity Health Corporation for refusing to perform abortions on women whose unborn babies were supposedly near death.
In a federal lawsuit against Trinity, which is one of the largest Catholic health systems in the country, the ACLU explained that their doctors refused to perform abortions on five women who suffered preterm, premature rupture of membranes. This complication arises when the amniotic sac breaks and leaves no fluid around the unborn child.
Sarah Prager, an associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Washington, said the condition almost always results in fetal death. She said, “This is a situation where there is virtually no chance that the fetus will survive. The miscarriage has started. It just hasn’t completed.”
Additionally, Prager said that if care is denied women are at risk for infection and termination of pregnancy is considered “the standard of care.” USA Today reports that Trinity believes the case has no merit. In a statement, they said, “A federal court already dismissed a similar ACLU claim, and we will seek dismissal of this suit for the same reason.
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A "miscarriage" refers to the loss of a pregnancy before the fetus is actually a viable baby. So it isn't likely to live anyway. The mother's body often terminates a pregnancy because the fetus was either dying or seriously defective, or the mother's life was in danger.
ReplyDeleteIt's nature's way, or "God's way" of protecting the mother, who is more important than the fetus. Without her, any surviving offspring will have less chance of survival. She can likely have another, healthier pregnancy later, and there's no point in wasting any more resources on a pregnancy that has failed.
To deny the mother the care that could result in death or infertility due to infection or blood loss, is hypocrisy, as her existing children (which God supposedly loves too) need her. Not to mention, all those future fetii that will have been prevented, as her remaining eggs die with her, without ever having the opportunity to become good fetus-producing Catholics themselves.
So refusing to provide necessary medical care to a woman suffering a miscarriage, is potentially pro-active contraception.
Think of the children!
...think of the fetii!!
What is with the lefts obsession with killing unborn babies?
ReplyDelete12:53 What is with the anti-choice obsession with fetuses?
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