Sometimes, abortions go wrong

This from the latest print issue of the National Review:

Sometimes, abortions go wrong, and the baby survives. (What a sickening sentence.) That is what happened in England recently. Jodie Percival became pregnant with her third child, and, along with her fiancĂ©, decided to have an abortion. Her first child had died of kidney disease, and her second child is now afflicted with such disease. “I was on the pill when I became pregnant,” Ms. Percival said. “Deciding to terminate at eight weeks was just utterly horrible, but I couldn’t cope with the anguish of losing another baby.” So she had the abortion - or thought she had. She felt a fluttering in her stomach, and went to have a scan. “I couldn’t believe it,” she said. “This was the baby I thought I’d terminated. [Such a clinical word.] At first I was angry that this was happening to us, that the procedure had failed. I wrote to the hospital, I couldn’t believe that they had let me down like this. They wrote back and apologized and said it was very rare.” In the end, baby Finley was born, and he is expected to lead a normal life. Yes, sometimes abortions go “wrong.”

She couldn’t cope with the anguish of losing another baby? And so decided to kill the one in her womb. From pregnancy.org, the baby at eight weeks:

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At any rate, thank God that the baby survived. But how terrible it must be when as a child (or young adult) such children learn that their parents tried to kill them when they were most helpless and defenseless?

2 Responses to “Sometimes, abortions go wrong”


  1. 1 Clara Jun 20th, 2008 at 2:16 pm

    I actually knew someone who was born after a “failed” abortion. She was pretty cheerful about it — in fact, she shared this as her “fun getting-to-know-you” fact at the beginning of a class that I had with her in high school, and said that her mother had always called her her “special” baby for that reason. I was, as you might imagine, fairly horrified… it’s hard to imagine this wouldn’t negatively impact your relationship to your parents, knowing that they had, well, tried to have you killed before you were even born.

    There wasn’t anything “wrong” with this girl, by the way. Her parents just had three kids already and decided that a fourth would be too much of a financial burden, or something like that. You have to wonder if they ever felt guilty looking at her, a healthy, attractive, good-natured and intelligent daughter, and thinking “you know, if that operation had ‘worked’…”

    Shudder!

  2. 2 Iosephus Jun 20th, 2008 at 2:37 pm

    Yoicks

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