Brazilian doctors: disabled unborn babies will either be cut to pieces or torn apart with aspirator
April 20, 2012
(LifeSiteNews.com) — In the wake of a decision by the nation’s Supreme Federal Tribunal determining
that babies suffering from the birth defect known as anencephaly aren’t
“legally” alive, and therefore can be freely aborted, Brazilian doctors are
explaining to the media how such babies will in fact be killed under the new
legal regime.
In a recent interview with Brazil’s most
popular news magazine, Veja, the Vice-President of the Federal Council on
Medicine, Dr. Carlos Vital, explained that doctors will have two choices:
either “curettage” or “aspiration.”
Abortions of ancephalic babies will be
performed in the second or third trimester.
A curettage abortion uses a loop-shaped
knife to cut the child to pieces, and then scrape his body and placenta from
the uterine wall. An aspiration abortion uses powerful suction to tear the
child apart, and likewise separate him from his mother.
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According to doctors, if these methods
are inadequate in later term abortions, Dilation and Evacuation (D&E) would
be required, involving a clamp that is used to tear apart the baby’s larger
body. Dr. Vital told Veja that abortions on anencephalic children could be
performed up to the ninth month of pregnancy.
Dr. Vital added that such abortions will
require a committee of doctors to determine the proper “criteria for diagnosis”
of anencephaly, a condition whose exact definition is not agreed upon by
physicians.
Anencephalic babies fail to develop the
top parts of their heads, including the skull and upper brain. Most die in the
womb or shortly after birth, although some have lived for days, months, and
even years with the condition.
Although medical professionals often
claim that such children are unaware of their surroundings and unable to
suffer, parents of anencephalic babies report that their children show signs of
awareness and seem to react in very specific ways to their environment.
Some doctors theorize that the brain stem of such infants is able to adapt to
the needs of rudimentary awareness, a phenomenon known as “neuroplasticity.”
In the United States, an estimated 95
percent of anencephalic babies are killed inside their mother’s womb.
In a public statement on the Supreme
Federal Tribunal’s decision, Brazilian pro-life activist Fr. Luis Lodi da Cruz
called the verdict “monstrous” and noted that, according to the Tribunal
minister who oversaw the case, the abortion of an anencephalic child “is a
procedure similar to removing a cadaver.”
“Paradoxically, [Minister] Marco Aurélio
admits that the anencephalic dies in a short period of time. Tell me, how can
he die if he’s already dead?” asked Lodi da Cruz.
Source: LifeSiteNews,
via Julio Severo in English: www.lastdayswatchman.blogspot.com
The
“unwanted” and the untruthfulness propaganda: Julio Severo answers pro-abortion
arguments of Brazilian newspaper Folha de S. Paulo
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