There is a process called "selective reduction of pregnancy." A Doctor kills one baby with a chemical injection (the same drug is used in criminal executions) and leaves the other to survive alongside the dead body.
Here is a story of when the wrong twin died, at least according to the idea that babies with Down's syndrome are better off dead ( or rather, that mothers with a Down's syndrome baby would rather not be saddled with a disabled child.) The doctor aborted the healthy twin by mistake.
A Sarasota OB-GYN who was supposed to abort an abnormal fetus in a twin pregnancy but leave the normal one alone made the worst kind of mistake: He got the twins mixed up and injected a killing chemical into the healthy one.
At a weekend meeting in Tampa, the Florida Board of Medicine revoked Dr. Matthew J. Kachinas’ license for that complaint and two others that involved less-serious charges.
After the board’s unanimous vote to revoke his license, Kachinas appeared stunned and confused. “What does that mean, revocation? I don’t understand.”
Department of Health officials told him he could appeal to the courts and suggested he consult a lawyer. But a despondent Kachinas told a reporter after the hearing that he intended to kill himself. Police took him to a hospital for evaluation.
Kachinas, 50, was one of the few OB-GYNs in Florida who still accepted elective abortion patients in the 24th week of pregnancy, according to his testimony during a formal hearing in the case in November before an administrative law judge. That is the last week of the second trimester, and while elective abortion is legal then, testimony in this case showed it is difficult to obtain because many doctors and nurses don’t want to be involved.
The wrong-twin case, which took place in 2006, involved a pregnancy of 15 weeks in a patient identified only by initials, K.M. It was not an abortion per se, in which the uterus is emptied and the pregnancy ends, but a “selective reduction” – a technique that involves reducing the number of fetuses to be carried to term. The physician uses ultrasound to see where the fetuses are positioned in the uterus and then injects a chemical through the abdomen into the one that is targeted for elimination.
The dead fetus is not removed from the woman’s body but tends to shrivel and be partly reabsorbed. The remaining fetuses are usually not affected.
At a weekend meeting in Tampa, the Florida Board of Medicine revoked Dr. Matthew J. Kachinas’ license for that complaint and two others that involved less-serious charges.
After the board’s unanimous vote to revoke his license, Kachinas appeared stunned and confused. “What does that mean, revocation? I don’t understand.”
Department of Health officials told him he could appeal to the courts and suggested he consult a lawyer. But a despondent Kachinas told a reporter after the hearing that he intended to kill himself. Police took him to a hospital for evaluation.
Kachinas, 50, was one of the few OB-GYNs in Florida who still accepted elective abortion patients in the 24th week of pregnancy, according to his testimony during a formal hearing in the case in November before an administrative law judge. That is the last week of the second trimester, and while elective abortion is legal then, testimony in this case showed it is difficult to obtain because many doctors and nurses don’t want to be involved.
The wrong-twin case, which took place in 2006, involved a pregnancy of 15 weeks in a patient identified only by initials, K.M. It was not an abortion per se, in which the uterus is emptied and the pregnancy ends, but a “selective reduction” – a technique that involves reducing the number of fetuses to be carried to term. The physician uses ultrasound to see where the fetuses are positioned in the uterus and then injects a chemical through the abdomen into the one that is targeted for elimination.
The dead fetus is not removed from the woman’s body but tends to shrivel and be partly reabsorbed. The remaining fetuses are usually not affected.
Babies come when they are ready. We can't control nature to that extent. We just have to provide better emotional and physical support for mothers whose babies are disabled in some kind of way.
This makes angry and very, very sad.
But I will have great news tomorrow! Check in to find out........
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