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Killing aborted babies
by ES Williams
Two eminent professors lay bear their souls about the problems of babies who
survive abortion in an article published in the Evening Standard (22 June
2004). Leading doctor, Professor Stuart Campbell, who worked at St George’s
Hospital, Tooting, reveals that he knew of at least nine babies that had
survived a legal abortion in recent years. This was because injections that
were supposed to have ended the babies lives in the womb had failed to do so,
resulting in a live baby. The professor was concerned that it was unfair on
nurses and the parents to see the baby, which the abortion had failed to kill,
moving and breathing. Another consultant obstetrician, Professor Jim Thornton
of City Hospital Nottingham, admitted that although in the past babies were born
alive more regularly ‘people did not make a fuss and pretended not to realise
the baby was born alive’.
So what happens to these aborted babies that are born alive? Sensible doctors
and sensible nurses, according to Professor Thornton, keep the survival of a
baby under their hat and simply allow the baby to die peacefully. In other
words, they stand aside as the tiny baby, traumatised by abortion, struggles for
life. Predictably there’s no mercy in the abortion chamber; no help for the
unloved infant, for the intention of the abortionist is to kill the baby. So no
attempt is made to help these babies, no attempt at resuscitation, no oxygen, no
incubator, no special care.
But it is not that simple, for the aborted baby who survives presents a massive
moral dilemma for the medical staff. What should they do with the unfortunate
child? Abortion dogma demands that the baby die, for in the mind of the
abortionist the ‘foetus’ is not a human being and has no intrinsic value. This
is why the mother could choose to abort her pregnancy in the first place. But
the surviving baby brings the medical staff face to face with the reality of
abortion, for what they see is a tiny baby, undeniably human, struggling for
life. Common humanity demands that they help the unfortunate, suffering baby.
What an impossible moral dilemma! The medical staff knows that it would be
wrong to actively kill the surviving baby, so the unhappy compromise is to stand
aside and allow the helpless babe die, and to do so in the secrecy of the
abortion chamber. But those who are witnesses to the death throes of the
aborted baby have a conscience, and this is why they feel upset. They know that
they have been party to a great wrong.
And what does this say about abortion? If it is wrong to kill the aborted baby
born alive, how can it be right to kill that same baby in its mother’s womb?
The Bible teaches us that human life, created in the image of God, is of
overwhelming value. The life of every human, including the unborn child, is
precious in God’s eyes. The purpose of the sixth commandment, ‘You shall not
murder’ (Exodus 20:13), is for the protection of innocent human life. The
Christian faith believes, from the Scriptures, that abortion is murder.
To purposely destroy a human being, with
malice aforethought, is murder. To purposely destroy an unborn child in its
mother’s womb, with malice aforethought, is intentionally killing, and that,
according to Scriptures, is murder. The reason the abortionist does not
wring the neck of the aborted baby born alive is because he knows that to do so
would be murder.
One of the reasons abortion has become acceptable in our society is because the
pro-abortion lobby has been remarkably successful in disguising the true nature
of abortion. By skilfully manipulating language, the abortion lobby has
convinced society that there is little harm in ‘terminating’ a ‘foetus’, or
removing the unwanted ‘products of conception’. Because abortion is done is
secret, behind the walls of an abortion clinic, there is little understanding in
society of the real nature of abortion. But the confessions of two eminent
professors have taken us into the abortion room and revealed how abortion dogma
allows an aborted child born alive to die—unwanted, uncared for, unloved.
Abortion is the greatest moral
evil of our time. The blood of the
innocents cry to heaven for help and protection.
According to Francis Schaeffer, in his seminal book on abortion, Whatever
Happened to the Human Race? ‘If, in this last part of the twentieth century,
the Christian community does not take a prolonged and vocal stand for the
dignity of the individual each person’s right to life – for the right of each
individual to be treated as created in the image of God – we feel that as
Christians we have failed the greatest moral test to be put before us in this
century.’
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