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Wednesday September 15, 2004
Catholic Hospitals Inducing Labour and Killing Handicapped Children
Priest ethicist says it's OK because the children aren't going to live anyway
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September 15, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The use of euphemisms has been a great help to the abortion industry. Words and phrases like, 'products of conception,' 'interruption of pregnancy,' 'genetic termination,' and now, 'early induction of labour,' are used to muddy the waters about what is actually happening in the abortion facility or hospital.
Since the Second World War, the eugenics movement has been evolved by professional ethicists into the pseudo-science of bioethics. It is in bioethics that the practice of re-defining terms has reached its creative zenith. Now it has been discovered that two Catholic hospitals in the US have been killing handicapped unborn babies under the cover phrase, 'early induction of labour.'
Tom Szyszkiewicz, a reporter for the Catholic periodicals, Our Sunday Visitor and the National Catholic Register, has discovered that two Catholic hospitals, Loyola Health System in Chicago, and Providence Health System on the West Coast and Alaska, are performing a procedure called "early induction for fetuses with anomalies incompatible with life" or EIFWAIL. Syszkiewicz notes that "the child, once born, dies because of either prematurity or because of his handicaps or both."
Szyszkiewicz reported in the March 7, 2004, Our Sunday Visitor that the Catholic facilities claimed that in carrying out early induction of labour, they were acting according to the US bishops' ethics guidelines for Catholic health care, which says, "For proportionate reason, labour may be induced after the fetus is viable."
Jill Stanek, a pro-life activist writing for World Net Daily said she called the hospitals for confirmation. She reports that Loyola's staff ethicist, a priest named Fr. Jack O'Callahan, justified the action. After affirming that the hospital does indeed commit 'early induction' abortions he said that they only killed children who are 'not going to live anyway.'
See the articles by Tom Szyszkiewicz:
http://www.ncregister.com/Register_News/101903_3.htm and OSV http://www.osv.com/periodicals/show-article.asp?pid=928
Jill Stanek in World Net Daily:
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=40465
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