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Thursday October 28, 2004
South Australian Victims of Late-Term, Partial-Birth Abortions are Mostly Healthy
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ADELAIDE, South Australia, October 28, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Advertiser, a South Australia newspaper, has revealed that most babies killed late in pregnancy are healthy, normal children, aborted most commonly for reasons of so-called maternal mental health.
The article showed that of 377 late-term abortions -- defined as beyond 20 weeks -- committed there between 1998 and 2002, the mother's mental state was cited as the most common reason for the abortion in more than half of the cases. The mother had developed a medical problem in 10 cases, and fetal abnormality accounted for an additional 171 late-term abortions. Sixteen babies were aborted at 24 weeks or later.
Dr John James, vice-president of Right to Life Australia commented, "The proponents of late-term abortion always insist the majority of late term abortions are done almost entirely for severe congenital abnormalities."
There is no acceptable reason to kill an unborn child -- a mother's mental state is, by default, by no means an "acceptable reason," Dr. James emphasized.
South Australia law allows abortion of babies on demand up to, but not including, 28 weeks of pregnancy. There were 5214 abortions committed in South Australia in 2003. South Australia has a population of 1.5 million.
Read The Advertiser report: http://www.theadvertiser.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,11208005%5E2682,00...
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