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From the Department of Nauseated Head Shaking: Baby Boy Lives 2 Days After Botched Abortion<\/a><\/p>\n

The U.K. Telegraph reported today that a 22-week old Italian baby boy died after being abandoned after a failed abortion. This wasn’t any back-alley abortion–the child was left by hospital doctors to die alone, but lived for almost two days. From the Telegraph<\/a>:<\/p>\n

He was discovered alive the following day, some 20 hours after the operation, by Father Antonio Martello, the hospital chaplain, who had gone to pray beside his body.<\/p>\n

He found that the baby, wrapped in a sheet with his umbilical cord still attached, was moving and breathing.<\/p>\n

The priest raised the alarm and doctors immediately arranged for the infant to be taken to a specialist neonatal unit at a neighbouring hospital where he died on Monday morning.<\/p>\n

Italian police are investigating the case for “homicide” because infanticide is illegal in Italy.<\/p>\n

The law means that doctors have had an obligation to try to preserve the life of the child once he had survived the abortion.<\/p>\n

The Italian government is also considering an inquiry into the conduct of the hospital staff.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Telegraph reports that this is not the first instance of a child born alive during an abortion in Italy, that a similar event happened three years ago. But I’d bet that these are just two incidents of many that go unreported.<\/p>\n

The other involved a baby in Florence who weighed just 17oz when he was aborted at 22 weeks because of a suspected genetic disorder but lived for three days.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In both cases, the children were aborted because prenatal tests had revealed the possibility of birth defects. As if ending the life of a helpless child in the womb wasn’t enough, the fact some doctors might leave children to die is truly terrifying. The pro-abortion side rails that Born Alive Infant protection laws serve no purpose but to threaten Roe v. Wade, but then there are stories like this one.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

President Obama, as an Illinois State Senator, voted against any legal protections for infants who happened to survive an abortion.<\/p>\n

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