A Misstep On the Steady Journey to Eugenics

Aug 27, 2007 22:07

Doctors Abort Wrong Twin: Guardian article, IOL article
Italian police have been asked to investigate a case in which doctors treating a 40-year-old woman who was pregnant with twins aborted a healthy foetus while leaving a second, malformed one untouched.
Rest of Guardian article under cut. )

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irish3509 August 27 2007, 16:01:49 UTC
Wow, well it sounds better to say 3% than 4,000 so that's probably why they did that. As for the rest of it, I can't even put my reaction into words.

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rowan61 August 27 2007, 16:52:07 UTC
I'm so glad you posted this. I'm frightened to think about the slippery slope this is becoming.

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5010 August 27 2007, 17:12:00 UTC
As bad as it sounds, it is still better than the state of things here in the USA.

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