Here’s a report from LifeNews.com: “British Govt Encouraging Women to Give Birth to Disabled Babies to Harvest Their Organs.” The title pretty much sums it up: a group of transplant surgeons in the U.K. has proposed that women who learn they’re carrying babies with fatal birth defects be encouraged to carry to term, even if they otherwise would have had an abortion, so that the organs can be used for transplantation.
Scandalous or sensible? If this was an individual woman making this decision, everyone would be sharing it as a touching story. Does the fact that it’s a transplant surgeon group, and the NHS, suggesting this, make it less acceptable? Lots of people are freaking out about this, but, assuming that the child isn’t actually directly killed to access his organs, and is given proper medical care after birth, if the condition is not fatal after all, I fail to see what’s so disturbing about counseling a woman not to automatically abort a child in such a case, even if the NHS has nefarious motives that are not at all pro-life in nature. In fact, the same site that carried this story yesterday, today had a story about a woman who, knowing her child had a fatal defect, thought of the baby’s time in the womb as a precious, though short, life, itself, with the father playing music and talking to the baby.
What do you think?
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