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A healthy 32-week-old foetus was accidentally aborted last week in a botched procedure at the Royal Women’s Hospital in Melbourne, Australia. The mother, from Victoria, was pregnant with twin boys she had already named. When one of them was diagnosed with a congenital heart defect, doctors advised her to abort him.
 
An ultrasound clinician had checked the healthy baby, who was in a separate sac to the sick baby, before the abortion. But doctors administered a lethal injection to the healthy boy. The mother then had an emergency caesarean section and the sick child was also aborted in a three-hour operation. A Royal Women’s Hospital spokeswoman apologised for the “distressing clinical accident” and said the hospital was launching a full investigation.
 
A friend of the woman said the family was struggling to cope with the fatal mistake. “She went to the hospital with two babies and now she has none. And she had the heartache of giving birth to her sick baby. She’s traumatised,” she said.
 
Victoria’s Health Minister David Davis said the hospital investigation would be overseen by an independent expert. “I am very much determined to get to the bottom of what went wrong,” he said.
 
F&L Comment: This is a sad and tragic case. It is even sadder and more tragic to consider that had the “right” baby been aborted, the case would have attracted no attention at all.
Herald Sun. November 24. BBC. November 24. Family & Life. November 29.