From abortion to infanticide.
Written by sheila trainor
recent articles in the alberta report have exposed nurses's allegations of the shocking practice of late-term abortions and infanticide at the calgary foothills hospital. The procedure referred to as "genetic termination" involves the premature induction of labour on women whose preborn children are diagnosed with genetic anomalies. It seems that the procedure is used to terminate defective preborns up to the 35th week of gestation. Apparently, some babies are stillborn, others die shortly after birth but some are born alive and at least one baby lived for 12 hours even though he or she was denied care. Since these babies are not meant to live, nurses have told thealberta report that they are forbidden to provide treatment or medical care, including nutrition and hydration, to these newborns who are left to die. In the case of the baby who lived for 12 hours, the nurses took turns holding and rocking the baby. Nurses were so traumatized by these events that they contacted the alberta reportto expose the practice. They seemingly came armed not only with their stories but also with hospital memos which apparently substantiate their allegations. These memos have also been anonymously forwarded to some mp's.

The official response from the calgary regional health authority is almost as shocking as the events which allegedly occurred at the calgary foothills hospital. Rather than express alarm at the possibility that the hospital may be performing these grisly procedures and letting the poor newborns die they have turned their wrath on the alberta report for printing the facts. A court imposed injunction forbids the alberta report to further report on this scandal! Calgary southeast mp, jason kenney, states in a recent news release "it seems that the chra (calgary regional health authority) is even willing to suppress freedom of the press in its effort to keep the public from learning what's going on in a public hospital at public expense."

it is possible that these actions are not just gruesome but may also be illegal. Since the supreme court struck down the law on abortion in 1988, abortion is unregulated and may be performed at any time during the nine months of pregnancy. In law it is stated that once a child has fully emerged from the body of its mother it becomes a person and its right to life must be respected. Allowing a child to die after birth through negligence would be classed as infanticide. Mr. Kenney has called for a criminal investigation into these allegations of infanticide. In his letter to the attorney general of alberta, mr. Kenney refers to 6 sections of the criminal code which may have been violated in the termination prodecures. The chief of police has announced that they will initiate a criminal investigation.


Please tell me i,m not the only one to find this unacceptable