Thursday, August 16, 2007

Unarguably a Culture of Death

"The Pastor's Weekly Briefing" for August 17, 2007, ran the following article.

"Lethal Injections Avoid PBA

"In response to the Supreme Court decision upholding the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act, many abortionists in Boston, Mass., and around the country are injecting preborn babies with a lethal drug dose before aborting them, according the Boston Globe.

"The National Abortion Federation is training doctors to inject potassium chloride into a preborn baby's heart to avoid any chance of partially delivering a live fetus. In Boston, three major Harvard-affiliated hospitals — Massachusetts General, Brigham and Women's, and Beth Israel Deaconess — have responded to the ban by making the injections the new standard operating procedure for abortions beginning at around 20 weeks' gestation, said Dr. Michael F. Greene, director of obstetrics at Mass. General.

"Dr. Gene Rudd, with the Christian Medical Association, called it an appalling situation. "In an effort to technically circumvent the partial-birth abortion ban," he told Family News in Focus, "abortionists have basically moved the death of the baby by just a few inches and few minutes." He also points out that if potassium chloride gets into the mother's system, it could place her health at risk. "We have breached a major tenet of medical ethics," Rudd explained. "We're not really doing what's in her best interest. We're doing what's in the physician's best interest."
Denise Burke, staff counsel for Americans United for Life, pointed out the irony of the situation, in that potassium chloride is also used to execute death row inmates."