Doctors as terminators - death for convenience.,

 Doctors as terminators - death for convenience.,

   The public voice is demanding the right to medically  terminate life in a manner not encountered since the Third Reich.  In a similar manner we have started with those who have no voice.  The unborn baby and the fragile elderly.  The right to abortion in early pregnancy may be justifiable on numerous grounds, for health reasons or dire social reasons at a stage when the rapidly replicating embryonic cells bears little resemblance to a living child.  It was in an era in which birth control was unavailable, as in the Ireland I grew up in, or of imperfect reliability.  It is never justifiable as a matter of mere convenience.  As a result of increasing medical sophistication and decreasing concern regarding killing whatever was growing in the uterus, abortion was performed later and later in the pregnancy until it became acceptable to kill healthy viable babies in the womb.   Ultimately, society has come to accept abortion as a procedure of convenience and regard the life snuffed out as insignificant. This preamble leads into a recent headline in the National Post.

   "Refusal to reduce twin pregnancy sparks battle!"

    Reduce twin pregnancy in this case means to kill one of the twins in the womb. (Note the avoidance of the word 'kill' in Newspeak.) The doctor and the hospital involved (Mount Sinai, in Toronto) felt this was wrong and refused to terminate (kill) a healthy baby.  The mother stated she was disgusted and felt 'judged' (as indeed she should have been, but this is politically incorrect nowadays).  She found a lawyer, of course, and sued the hospital.  Outrageously, Mount Sinai hospital offered a settlement of $55,000 which the woman thought insufficient and refused.  

   I believe she should  have been offered nothing and strongly resent that health care dollars should be wasted this preposterous way.  I don't have religious convictions in  this area, but I do know the difference between right and wrong and killing a healthy baby 'in utero' is unquestionably wrong.  Rewarding this sort of behaviour sends a savage message that will undoubtedly continue to undermine our concept of what a health care system exists for.  The moral physician who refused to be a part of this deserves a commendation for refusing to let himself be turned into a terminator.  Instead he will be subject to criticism and conceivably other consequences. 

Let me hear your comments on this.