Unborn Activists?

Here is a pretty interesting article on abortion.  It takes a pretty different perspective to the issue, that of waging the pro-life battle from the perspective of the unborn (possibly aborted) child.  It sounds a bit weird, but it’s a pretty compelling piece.

• After a test showed that one of her twins had Down Syndrome, a 38-year-old woman in Italy had the handicapped fetus aborted this summer — only to find out that the hospital killed the healthy twin. So she came back for a second abortion and filed a complaint against the medical staff. It turns out that the twins had switched places between the last scan and the actual abortion.
• But look what happens when a mother overrules her doctors and gives the baby a chance. The child will often reward her, as happened in England when physicians advised Deborah Gudgeon that she should abort her baby because of a large, potentially fatal cyst—a situation, they said, in which most patients opted to abort. Instead, Gudgeon started to pray, and four weeks after medical scans confirmed that the cyst was growing, it simply disappeared.
• For example, fetuses were among the first to weigh in on the embryonic stem cell debate, which is fundamentally about the value of an embryo. Not only is every unfortunate soul who has been implanted with stem cells from embryos or aborted fetuses dead or wishing he/she were, look what this embryo did just to make a point: Embryo saved from flood is now a boy – “Noah Benton Markham—8 pounds, 6 1/2 ounces—was born to 32-year-old Rebekah Markham by Caesarean section after growing from an embryo that nearly defrosted in a sweltering hospital during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.”
• But there are scientific “advances” that fetuses aren’t so fond of, exposing certain technology to be as defective as it claims the fetuses to be: Prenatal Screening not so Accurate as Once Thought — “Normal” Children Killed as “Defective”, reports a pro-life website called Lifesite News, which also revealed that screening tests for Down Syndrome are inaccurate up to 40 percent of the time.

Read the whole piece.  It’s quite good.