ROME, October 11, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Turin hospital resumed testing of the abortion pill, RU-486, despite Italy’s health minister putting a halt to the experiments last month. The hospital’s actions prompted the Vatican to denounce the move as an “act against life.”
Health Minister Francesco Storace halted the experiments being conducted at Sant’Anna hospital in Turin September 21, after the hospital had already committed 26 chemical abortions with the drug over a period of two weeks. The hospital has decided to resume the so-called experiment despite the ban, beginning October 17. “Our goal was to resume the experiment, so we decided to accept the ministry’s requests” in September, said Mario Valpreda, a top health official in the region, according to an AP report.
Storace explained that his decision came after he was informed that one of the 20 women who had taken the pill ended up having a “partial expulsion” at home followed by bleeding. This indicated to him that the procedure was illegal since under Italian law abortions had to be carried out at hospitals. He also sited health risks.
“Yet another act against life,” the official Vatican newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano, stated Thursday. “Once again science is put at the service of death.” The Turin study “makes abortion become an increasingly easy (method of) contraception, the most tragically effective one,” the L’Osservatore Romano added. “We have arrived to such an eclipsing of conscience that we see the act of killing the most defenceless of the innocent as an act of freedom.”
RU-486 has been cited in the death of five women in the United States since the pill was introduced five years ago, resulting in Congress halting sales of RU-486.
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