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Monday, August 27, 2007

Botched abortion raises eugenics issue in Italy

"Rome - A botched abortion in which a healthy twin foetus was terminated instead of its sibling with Down syndrome has reignited the abortion debate in Italy and raised allegations of eugenics.

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"What happened in this hospital was not a medical abortion but an abortion done for the purposes of eugenics," she said, referring to the belief that the human species can be improved through selective reproduction.

The abortion was performed on a 38-year-old woman in Milan in June, but news of its outcome has only recently become public. Doctors blamed the mistake on movement of the foetuses between the examination and the abortion."

Via The Curt Jester

1 comment:

Christina Dunigan said...

More collateral damage in the war on kids with Down Syndrome.

Funny how "tolerance" and "diversity" go straight out the window when it comes to who lives and who dies.