Australia's only late term abortion clinic will no longer do late term abortions

 
Here is another article that got edited down from the Proliferations column.          

In Australia, the only clinic doing late term abortions are aborting that end of the business. They say it is an operational decision as the procedure is  "intensely demanding." The new owner also is aware of the bad publicity when under previous ownership the clinic "made headlines after anaesthetist James Latham Peters allegedly infected more than 50 women with hepatitis C in 2008 and 2009."

The article points out that late term abortions are now more frequently being done by inducing early labor. The casual reader might wonder how this kills the baby....if the birth process of early labor does not kill the infant, the neglect of resuscitation  or care to the pre born child finishes the job since the lungs are the last things to develop. Sound gruesome. It is.... but so is partial birth or dismemberment of the larger baby.

Obviously the Australian version of Planned Parenthood is not happy and say this will lead to more "backyard abortions."

Woman dies from late term abortion at AU clinic charged with infecting patients with Hepatitus C

What does it take to shut this place down??? 

This story out of Australia tells of a 42 yr. old woman who dies from a late term abortion committed by Dr. Mark Shulberg in Victoria. This clinic has had egregious violations in the past.

It is the fourth investigation involving the clinic in six years.
Anaesthetist James Latham Peters allegedly infected more than 50 women with hepatitis C at the same clinic in 2008 and 2009.

The surgery's owner, Dr Mark Schulberg, was in 2009 found guilty of unprofessional conduct for failing to gain legal consent to perform a late-term abortion on an intellectually disabled woman.

And earlier this year it was revealed that a 40-year-old woman was left fighting for her life in the Box Hill Hospital after Dr Schulberg performed a late-term abortion surgery on her.

The Health Dept. said they will investigate again!!!! Dr. Schulberg is unavailable for comment since he is on holiday!!!

Four dead baby boys...two mothers facing different reactions?????

What's the difference here?

I can't help but think of two recent stories......one in Hendersonville, TN where a woman delivered twin boys and suffocated them. She hid their bodies in the bathroom of her parents home. She was arrested and is now out on bail and awaiting trial for the killing of her twins.  Public reaction is shock and anger toward this woman. 

The latest story out of Australia of  a woman who  carried twin boys until 32 weeks gestation (full term is 40 weeks).  The dr. diagnoses one twin with a congenital heart defect and she agrees to a late term abortion by means of lethal injection. The dr. makes an error and gives the lethal injection to the healthy baby and then performs a Cesarean section operation to terminate the unhealthy one. Public reaction is one of sympathy for the woman and she is considering a lawsuit against the hospital for the error. 

Four babies are dead.....two mothers facing different public reactions? Can someone explain this?

Australia: Further reports confirm unhealthy baby delivered and then "terminated"

 Further  reports out of Australia confirm that the late term abortion  was meant to kill one baby (the one diagnosed with  "serious" heart defects).  The doctors advised this because they said  the baby would face many surgeries and issues.  The  parents agreed to the late term abortion but the hospital, identified as the Australia's largest specialist woman's hospital,  aborted  the wrong one....killing the healthy one.  So they immediately perform an "emergency" c section  to remove the twin boy identified with the heart defect and "had to terminate" him. 

No they did not have to do this....they choose to do this. She could have carried her remaining offspring to full term and given birth and  needed care.  But apparently the parents or medical  personnel  or both did not think having a baby with a defect was worthy of life. His life may have been shortened by the defect, but we will never know because he was delivered and killed. Notice all the euphemisms given to the way they described the event. 

I note in the interview that a woman who sounds like the Gloria Aldred of Australia is saying that she hope the couple will contact her so she can help them....as in sue for lots of $$. So how much will two lives get the couple??

"The procedure went ahead on Tuesday but the wrong foetus was terminated. The sick child also had to be terminated after an emergency caesarean."

" A spokeswoman says it's a terrible tragedy and the hospital is deeply sorry for the loss suffered by the patient and her family."

"After carrying her twin boys for 32 weeks a Victorian woman has now lost them both."

No, after carrying her twin boys for 32 weeks, she killed them.  She,  along with her  husband and the doctors who advised  and carried this out. They  will have to live with that. 

Note all the sympathy for the woman and her family....and I might add for the two boys who were given a lethal injection to kill them.

Australia: seeks to open assisted suicide clinic in "City of Churches"

EUTHANASIA advocate Philip Nitschke expects to open an assisted death clinic in Adelaide within a month. 

He feels like he has widespread public opinion approval despite the newspaper poll that shows 64%- to 34% opposed  to his idea. He openly admits that it takes time for people to get used to the idea and agrees with proposed changes that alleviates anxieties. For instance, this will not be a fly in AS suicide clinic but have some resident requirements. I wonder how lose they will be because the customer base would have to come from other cities or countries. I wonder if there are enough cases in Adelaide which ironically is known as the "City of  the Churches"  to make this clinic profitable.  Hmmm speaking of City of the Churches, I wonder where are the church leaders on this subject. Advocates claim that only those who areterminally ill and with no way to relieve their pain would be candidates But one reader points out that with the advances in palliative care there is no need for Assisted Suicide.  Another  reader opines;

"We have the example of Holland and Belgium where non-terminally ill patients have been put down involuntarily. There are no absolute safeguards in euthanasia."

Disabled toddler drowns under suspicious circumstances

 Horrifying and tragic story from Australia. Parents of children need a strong support system to keep them from going crazy themselves and potentially doing something crazy or lethal. I pray this family who wondered out loud about legal euthanasia for their disabled child did not do  this on purpose. It does appear suspicious that they would leave a disable toddler in a pool unattended and the mother who is trained in CPR did not perform this. They will find no peace in  their lives if that is the case. And if two people know of  the deed, one eventually will turn on the other one.
pix from Daily Telegraph

Australia" ads for assisted suicide airs on late night TV

 from Sydney Morning Herald online version

A "hard hitting" pro-euthanasia campaign will soon appear on television screens and billboards across Australia.

Dr Philip Nitschke, an advocate of assisted suicide, said the campaign was an Australian first and it was hoped to provoke private introspection as well as a public debate.

"I think its about time we saw increasing pressure being put on the political process to stop sidelining this issue," Dr Nitschke told AAP on Tuesday.

"... If we can engage in some mainstream activities in terms of getting a broad public movement of support, then politicians won't feel as though they are acting in a bizarre way if they were to engage with this issue."

The ads will air on late-night television from Sunday starting in Brisbane with Melbourne, Sydney and Adelaide to follow.

Related billboards will also go up "in prominent places around Australia" in a total $60,000 advertising spend.

Dr Nitschke said he was inspired by the ABC Television's spoof marketing program The Gruen Transfer, which recently aired two fake advertisements making a fictional call for mandatory euthanasia.

"We turned it over to the company The Works following their pretty stunning episode in the Gruen Transfer," Dr Nitschke said.

"We were so impressed by what they did we asked them what they thought (about a serious campaign).

"I watched them filming yesterday and I was pretty taken with it ... It's a hard hitting message."

The advertisement portrays an elderly, terminally ill man looking back on the decisions he had made.

Dr Nitschke said he would emphasise how a person had freedom of choice through their life, but not at the end of it.

"He ends up staring into the camera and that message is addressed to politicians - `Why won't you give me this choice?`," Dr Nitschke said.

The campaign was mostly funded by a bequest sent to Dr Nitschke's group Exit International from India.

He said Exit International would undertake related advertising, and also work towards establishing a branch, in India.

"If people want to take strong exception, and rant about it, in a sense that is not necessarily going to do us any harm," Dr Nitschke also said.

"It will get a broader group of people considering the issue and, by and large, the more it is discussed the more common sense prevails."