This is a major story in Europe right now. (H/T ECM)
Excerpt:
A baby boy abandoned by doctors to die after a botched abortion was found alive nearly a day later.
The 22-week infant died one day later in intensive care at a hospital in the mother’s home town of Rossano in southern Italy.
The mother, pregnant for the first time, had opted for an abortion after prenatal scans suggested that her baby was disabled.
However, the infant survived the procedure, carried out on Saturday in the Rossano Calabro hospital, and was left by doctors to die.
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.
He found that the baby, wrapped in a sheet with his umbilical cord still attached, was moving and breathing.
The priest raised the alarm and doctors immediately arranged for the infant to be taken to a specialist neo-natal unit at the neighbouring Cosenza hospital, where he died on Monday morning.
[…]More than 200,000 abortions are performed each year, most for non-medical reasons within the legal upper limit of 24 weeks gestation.
The increasing number of babies surviving below 24 weeks, partly because of advances in medicine, has led to widespread calls for the legal upper limit to be further reduced.
Attempts to lower the limit failed in Parliament in 2008.
In 2005 a baby boy in Manchester was born alive at 24 weeks after surviving three attempts to abort him. He is now a five-year-old schoolboy.
It’s not good. If I have to give up sex before marriage in order to avoid committing acts of evil like this, then I will do it. I cannot allow myself to do anything that would expose an innocent unborn child to be harmed in this, just so that I can have momentary pleasure. Abortion is one of the main reasons why I am chaste. I believe in love, romance and courting. I don’t believe in recreational sex. It’s just not worth the risk. Not only does it hurt women when you pull away from them, but you can even cause worse evil. There are other things to do with women than to victimize them with premarital sex, and to risk the lives of unborn children, too.
The pursuit of pleasure must stop short of violating someone else’s right to life.
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WINTERY KNIGHT 
Oh my…so tragic. I don’t have the words.
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I don’t even really know you, but I have more respect for you as a man than most men I know. I wish (and pray) that more Christian men would think this way. Thank you.
On the other side, it would certainly help if more Christian women did their part, too.
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Kelli, thank you so much for the compliment! It really helps me to be good when Christian women recognize and approve of me. It was so rare for such a long time that I despaired of anyone ever noticing me. So it matters a lot to me that you approve of me.
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I admire a girl who recognizes and what real men are!
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Well there it is, isn’t it? Your final paragraph echoes what I’ve been saying for, like, ever. Abortion is a symptom of something else, that being the pursuit of sexual gratification any time, damn the consequences. It’s lead to the pathetic and heinous opinion that a human being has no intrinsic value and worth simply because of what stage of development that human has or hasn’t reached.
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What abortion really is, when you think about it, is slavery. You classify a whole group of people as unworthy of life, because you need to be happy in your 80 years on this ball of dust, and you are willing to kill people who get in your way. It’s actually WORSE than slavery. And for what? SEX. As if there is nothing to do with women except have sex with them. HOW RIDICULOUS. May I suggest that a start would be to pick out a woman who loves theology and apologetics and spend some time giving her love and attention. Pick out a bunch of stuff from her wishlist and buy it for her, wrapped with a card and a ribbon. Give her white roses. Ask her about her plan to serve the Lord and compliment her on it. Caring for GOOD WOMEN (not good-looking women – there is a difference) is a form of loving God.
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True. I seriously think any woman who claims to be feminist and pro-abortion is grossly deluded. They end up doing the very thing they claim hate. They end up becoming the very thing they claim to abhor. And they have the gall to call *us*, women who really care and prefer being responsible, as intolerant and stupid.
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“Caring for GOOD WOMEN (not good-looking women – there is a difference) is a form of loving God.”
Wintery Knight
Where do I meet a man like you in my country? (This is a sincere compliment. Here is hoping that you do find the right wife.)
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It’s difficult. There are a couple of debates coming up in South Africa. If you can attend them and carry an apologetics book with you, and take notes during the debate, and ask a good question, that might be one idea. Participating in discussion forums and blogs is also good. Having a public ministry of your own that you are passionate about. Carrying apologetics with you wherever you go. Being passionate about how economics and politics influences the family and talking about that when there are men around. I think that things like this help to attract the right kind of man.
I’ve had two relationships since I started blogging (my first two ever, really). The first woman got my attention by writing a MASSIVE reply showing her knowledge when I wrote her a thank you note for posting a comment. She was heavily into apologetics and politics. I love big letters! It shows me that a woman has lots of time for a relationship. I like to spend about 4 hours every 2-3 days minimum on courting when I am courting. Daily time talking is better still. The second woman I sought out because of her choice of books. She reads old-earth science apologetics and is active in advocating for social conservatism. Both of these women were fierce, aggressive warriors. Lionnesses, really. I like aggression and passion in women.
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Lol – I think the question was rhetorical, Wintery.
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Well now… I didn’t ask the question, but the answer you gave to my compatriot, Retha, intrigues me. I’m trying to decide how much of it is serious and how much is tongue-in-cheek. I had a good giggle about carrying an apologetics book around everywhere. :D And seeing as you have some pretty challenging requirements for your lioness, I do hope you allow her to have a similarly stringent list. In fact, I hope you would expect no less. :)
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Her list should be strict as well. It shows that she has put some thought into it.
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Thank you! Just today I was told (by a man) that I’m too fussy when it comes to men. I think I’m being perfectly reasonable. And I’m not talking about requirements such as “tall, dark and handsome”, but Christian, at a comparable level of maturity (so that I don’t feel like his older sister or mother), non-smoker, etc.
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I agree with KelliD. I am so disappointed by many Christian men who are so weak on this issue. In the interests of being “nice” or “pro-woman” (what a lie!), so many are too scared to say that abortion is wrong. To be really pro-woman is to respect women, as you have described. And to be a real man, one should strive to protect women and children. That’s not sexist. It’s wonderful! Keep it up. :)
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How ironic that the doctors who were legally trying to murder an unborn baby are now being investigated for infanticide for disposing of same baby in a dumpster 5 minutes later.
What a TRAVESTY that this poor baby had to spend his short life in a dumpster. What kind of of a world must he have thought he had been born into?
This is the end result of rejecting God. I know I shouldn’t feel this way, but I really hope that the woman who made the decision to kill the baby suffers horribly for the rest of her life.
wgbutler777
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That’s so crazy! Thank you for pointing it out
Here’s more:
“The law means that doctors have had an obligation to try to preserve the life of the child once he had survived the abortion.”
So doctor, kill it right, and kill it dead!
Mad!
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I read this story and I wept bitterly. I really want to know what the mother feels about in all of this, not in a sadistic way. I am genuinely curious. It broke my heart that someone so tiny and tender had been left unprotected for being disabled. What’s worse is the disability is probably not even his fault. And I seriously don’t get it, they murder a child (and they don’t make sure whether the medical procedure was effective) and send a priest to pray beside his dead body? What for? If he’s not human, he doesn’t need prayers. If he is human, why did they agree to kill him in the first place? And next time I see any woman who is pro-abortion saying anti-abortionists are sexist, I am really going lose my practiced self-control and slap them. Humans don’t abandon damaged off-springs, that’s animal behaviour. Disgusting beyond belief!!
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It *is* tragic. Of course animals don’t do this to their young. But I know what you mean.
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There are a number of animals that will let their young die for various reasons. It would be great if people based their opinions on fact rather than idiology or dogma.
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@Moo: Granted, I made a generalization. I’m sure there are a few. But it’s hardly the norm. It’s far more common among humans – sadly. It’s certainly not typical animal behaviour. I’m not always keen on ugly behaviour being labelled “animal” behaviour. Animals display behaviour which has been affected by the Fall, but they don’t sin as Man does. But I know what Shalini is getting at…
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“Abortion is one of the main reasons why I am chaste. I believe in love, romance and courting. I don’t believe in recreational sex. It’s just not worth the risk. Not only does it hurt women when you pull away from them, but you can even cause worse evil. There are other things to do with women than to victimize them with premarital sex, and to risk the lives of unborn children, too.”
Thanks, Wintery, for putting your money where your mouth is on this issue. I don’t see this too often and I deeply respect it (and, in case you don’t know it already, I am a liberal).
You need to keep saying this loudly. Because until abortion becomes about, not just women’s conduct and decisions during an unplanned pregnancy, but men’s responsibilities, the abortion discussion split along red/blue lines will rage on as it has been doing. And no amount of laws absolving doctors from lying to their patients about fetuses with abnormalities, or laws forcing them to describe ultrasounds or even overturning Roe v Wade is going to change that.
A big thanks to you!
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