UK Government Fights to Keep Details of Late Term Eugenic Abortions Secret
This is what we are becoming, aborting viable fetuses because they will not be physically perfect--and the the UK government wishes to keep it all under wraps. From the story:
It centres on mothers who opt for termination because their unborn babies have been diagnosed with conditions such as club foot and cleft palate.No, we must never say that something is wrong. No, no, no: Can't have that. We are infected with terminal nonjudgmentalism. And so we lamely claim that "transparency" is the answer to everything.
Doctors say such conditions can usually be corrected by surgery.The Information Commissioner has ordered the release of the figures, but the Department of Health is resisting, claiming that disclosing the data could lead to women who have late abortions being identified.
While abortion is only legal in the first 24 weeks of pregnancy if carried out on social grounds, "Ground E" of the 1967 Abortion Act makes it legal to abort a foetus which has a serious risk of physical or mental abnormality, right up to birth. There are continuing concerns that the law is being flouted to weed out "less than perfect" babies.
Prof Stuart Campbell, the leading obstetrician whose 3D-scan images of babies "walking in the womb" at 12 weeks led to calls for a lowering of the 24-week limit for social abortion, said last night: "It is a disgraceful situation for this data to be suppressed."This is not about whether one agrees with abortion. These statistics used to be published, now they are being withheld. Transparency is the essence of medicine. If we don't have that, all sorts of wrongdoing can go on. I am not saying that using abortion is doing wrong, but we need to see the data in order to understand what is happening."
But something is very wrong, Professor. And I can tell you precisely what it is; a collapse in our capacity to love.
Labels: Brave New Britain. Eugenic Abortion. Late Term Abortion. Terminal Nonjudgmentalism.
posted by Wesley J. Smith @ 7:50 PM
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11 Comments:
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Makes me sick.
Your comment on the collapse of ability to love reminded me of this story:
http://www.thirdorder.org/dec08/evetlove.html
I read recently. You might enjoy-- it's very short.
I agree that transparency is extremely important, and necessary, in fact, essential.
I also agree with SHS's point that "transparency" is used as a shibboleth. I remember when I was confronting an attending physician at the hospital that was killing my mother and he said, "The hospital's records are transparent." What a buzzword is "transparent. Subsequently, in a "meeting" (these wrongdoers are always having "meetings" and forcing one to attend them), that same doctor asked me whether I'd be satisfied that the hospital had done nothing wrong if the Health Department and I-Pro said that it had done nothing wrong. I replied hell no, it's well known that this hospital alters records all the time. (In fact, the Health Department had recently acknowledged that to me, and said there was nothing it could do because it could only work with the information presented to it, and that the hospital knows it, and this particular doctor knew that I'd filed complaints with the agencies he'd mentioned, and that the hospital had butted into the process.) I knew I was right and that the hospital tampers with records, and the expression on the doctor's face when I said it confirmed it. Anyway, that's how "transparent" gets used.
The same hospital told me that "according to state law," it does not have to release to even the executrix of a late patient's estate a copy of that patient's medical records "unless the doctors say it is all right." How transparent is THAT?
One doesn't hear "I don't like" or "I object to" any more; one hears, "I have a problem with..." They have a problem, all right -- within themselves. No backbone, no integrity, no courage, no moral compass. My father used to say that when he was a kid, there used to be a fistfight on every corner every Friday night, and that what's gone wrong is that people are no longer willing to be confrontational, duke things out, settle things fair and square, etc. Of course not -- we're being run by cowards who have promulgated the culture of "nice." They are too weak, and too arrogant, and too craving of power, to be willing to tolerate fighting -- they know they would lose. And no one dares to punch them out and tell them get lost, creep. Naturally life has become devalued.
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To be more precise, it has become the replacement for public morality and critical thinking. If it is all done in the open, then somehow it is okay.
In the book 1984, "thought criminals" were publically hanged, to the amusement of the children presented throughout. People who were broken by the Thought Police were required to publically recant their position. Double-think was public acknowledgement of changes in policy by requiring someone to know the truth and yet to believe a lie, such as when chocolate rations were "raised" to 10 grams, when in reality they'd been lowered from 12 to 10.
There's nothing good about "transparency." All it does is encourage people to look at a problem in a way that makes it seem less like a problem.
I was meaning "transparency" in the sense of honesty and things not being hidden. But I know what you mean.
These stories are so frequent and awful that sometimes I feel like I should give up, like I can't do anything about it. Honestly, all this is very discouraging.
SAFEpres: Don't give up! You most certainly should not give up. They want those who oppose them to be discouraged and give up; that's their game.
I really don't understand why they even have limits at all. If it is ok to kill the foetus before 24 weeks because the mother has determined that the child's life after birth will inconvenience her somehow, then why should the fact that some people will determine after 24 wks (in light of new facts about abnormalities) that the child's life will inconvenience them somehow merit distinction? If abortion is to be legal, then any limit is merely arbitrary and its violation should not offend.
We don't just suffer from a lack of love for the disabled, we suffer from a lack of love for the "unwanted" and "inconvenient" as well. Or maybe we suffer from terminal narcissism and should all move to Montana, Washington, or Oregon.
Ianthe is right, Safepres: If you (and all of us) give up they will succeed in pushing these agendas. If you (and we) don't give up, they might fail.
Deep in my Soul there is a Voice that reasons" Please God, these are your Children. Stop the soft sell of the Devil's Handmaidens, who destroy your creations with doublespeak & deceiving goals." We have already failed as miserably as the mothers of Bethlehem whose children faced Herod's sword.
THEY suffer from terminal narcissism.
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