{"id":10073,"date":"2010-10-06T13:07:52","date_gmt":"2010-10-06T17:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=10073"},"modified":"2010-10-06T13:07:52","modified_gmt":"2010-10-06T17:07:52","slug":"aborted-babies-being-left-to-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/aborted-babies-being-left-to-die\/","title":{"rendered":"Aborted babies being left to die"},"content":{"rendered":"

From here<\/a>:<\/p>\n

BABIES that are surviving late-term abortions at Melbourne’s Royal Women’s Hospital might be being left on shelves to die, according to an Anglican minister.<\/p>\n

Dr Mark Durie, minister of St Mary’s Caulfield, said staff were finding it hard to cope with a reported six-fold increase in late-term abortions at the Women’s since abortion was decriminalised in Victoria two years ago. He said because conscientious objection by medical staff was now illegal, the hospital could employ only people who endorsed late-term abortions.<\/p>\n

Dr Durie is bringing a motion about late-term abortion to the annual Anglican synod, which opened in Melbourne last night.<\/p>\n

He calls on the state government to answer five questions about late-term abortions:<\/p>\n

\u25a0 How many are happening, and how late?<\/p>\n

\u25a0 What are the reasons for the abortions?<\/p>\n

\u25a0 Are those born alive receiving medical care, or what is their cause of death?<\/p>\n

\u25a0 What has been the effect on staff morale at the Royal Women’s Hospital?<\/p>\n

\u25a0 What has been the effect on staff recruitment?<\/p>\n

He said in one case – not at the Women’s – a trainee was deeply traumatised when she was told to drop a living foetus in a bucket of formaldehyde.<\/p>\n

The Anglican diocese of Melbourne backed decriminalising abortion in its submission to the Victorian Law Reform Commission review in 2007. Archdeacon Alison Taylor told The Age <\/em>at the time that in some circumstances, such as foetal abnormality, abortion was the ”the least problematic solution”.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Anglican diocese of Melbourne was, predictably, on the wrong side of this issue; let\u2019s hope that that changes.<\/p>\n

Abortion in Canada has been legal and unrestricted since 1988. In spite of its pretensions to speak on social justice matters with a “prophetic voice”, the Anglican Church of Canada continues to maintain a mealy-mouthed silence about abortion, including late-term abortion and the fate of aborted babies that survive \u2013 until being dropped into formaldehyde.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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