Wrong Twin Fetus Aborted in Australia
BY: CBC NEWS
At a hospital in Melbourne Australia, a staff member accidentally terminated a healthy fetus instead of its twin that was suffering from heart defects and would not have survived the birth. The mother was thirty-two weeks into her pregnancy and was asked to have the unhealthy fetus terminated by her doctor. After the accident was discovered the woman underwent a cesarean section to abort the remaining fetus. The hospital immediately released a statement that “a distressing clinical accident occurred” and they apologized for “the loss suffered by the woman and her family.” The family is most likely going to receive compensation for the accident. The state premier, Ted Baillieu, stated “There’s no question that this is an incident that everyone would have preferred had not occurred” and he didn’t want anyone to draw any conclusions of the incident. The family gave a brief statement to BBC asking for privacy through the difficult time. When I first read this story I was shocked, and wondered how an accident like this could occur. It was very saddening and I have much gratitude for the family. It would be tragedy enough learning that one of your children’s lives has to be terminated because of a heart defect. Then the worst possible outcome occurs and the healthy child is killed by accident. Coping with a tragedy like this would be very difficult and it is understandable how the family would want privacy. For a mistake like this to occur there must have been an error in the write up, or an equipment error. You hope for mistakes such as this to not happen but unfortunately they do. The world is not perfect, mistakes happen and we learn from them. Hopefully the cause of the accident is determined and the issue is fixed so no other family will have to experience the pain that this family did.
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