As a lay person reading Baby survives despite
‘foreign body’ in womb, November 12, I had to get only as far as the line
‘the only other surgery she’d had was an abortion’ to know baby Maia had shared
her mother’s womb with the partial remains of her dead sibling.
Maia’s mother, who in 2008 aged
only fifteen and surely in a pitiable state couldn’t possibly have given truly
informed consent to an abortion, had subsequently to endure years of infertility
and invasive tests. So I’d like to think
that during her ‘horrible pregnancy’ the suppression of that probable diagnosis
by the medical staff was an exercise in tact.
However, the statement by the clinical leader of
maternal and foetal medicine at Wellington Hospital, Jay Marlow, that such an
‘unlikely complication would not have crossed the minds of those carrying out
the fertility tests’ suggests otherwise. Baby Maia’s experience is a horrible
illustration of the blinkers worn for years now by both the media and the
medical profession in the face of overwhelming evidence against abortion and its
pernicious effects.
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