0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.
Jewish Hospital Criticized for Not Aborting Healthy Twin Baby in a “Selective Reduction”A woman filed a complaint against a Toronto hospital last year after it refused to abort one of her healthy unborn twins at her request, the National Post reported.The 45-year-old Ottawa mother was warned that, at her age, carrying twins would increase the risk of miscarriage, the report states. She was referred to Mount Sinai Hospital for a “selective reduction,” an abortion for just one of her babies.The hospital would not perform the abortion, according to her complaint. The doctors explained that they would only do the procedure in the case of triplets or more, or if one of the twins had a disability, according to the report. They also told her that she could go to the United States for the abortion.The Jewish hospital later explained that the abortion would contradict the “consciences of the clinicians.”Continued: http://www.lifenews.com/2016/08/04/jewish-hospital-criticizing-for-not-aborting-healthy-twin-baby-in-a-selective-reduction/
