Jivin J’s Life Links 4-12-10
by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat
Kachinas had blamed faulty ultrasound equipment for the 2006 mistake. He was targeting a fetus with Down syndrome and signs of a heart defect.
The 50-year-old doctor had never performed the procedure before, but said he didn’t like to tell patients “no.”…
More information from another Miami Herald article:
Kachinas, who practiced in Sarasota, was one of the few OB-GYNs in FL who accepted abortion patients in late 2nd trimester, records show. The “selective reduction” in the twin pregnancy was not considered a late-term procedure.
The parents of the twins, who had achieved the pregnancy through IVF with an egg donor, were not identified and were not at the hearing. Records show that after the normal fetus was inadvertently killed, they ended the pregnancy altogether the following week.
Why am I not surprised?
This weekend I had a crazy, stupid, irresponsible experience: unprotected sex. The first of my life. I’ve been with my partner for ages, but we hadn’t had sex in quite a while, and — it seems crazy but — somehow this time protection just slipped my mind.
Some times doctor’s diagnoses of fetal “abnormalities” are incorrect. Were Downs Syndrome and an actual heart defect verified at the time of autopsy?
This is so sad. Two lives tossed away like trash. The parents of these two children must be devastated. Praying for them.
That abort-just-one-twin thing is so disturbing; murder is murder, but wanting one child but not another seems just so twisted to me. Maybe it’s because I rarely hear of people who want abortions and want kids at the same time. Maybe I’m making some unconscious association between twins and The Giver/Josef Mengele. I don’t know, but that one story just really disturbed me.
Seems like it would raise major philosophical issues for the parents.
So sad. Both children, one a boy, one a girl according to the news report – both fully human. And now gone.
Praying also for the parents. Too bad they did not see that their Down Syndrome baby as a blessing too.
I’m sorry, but those people don’t deserve to be parents. How heartbreaking and disgusting that they willfully killed both their babies. This story makes me sick with grief.
The parents in the twins case are a prime example of why Catholics oppose IVF. The children were nothing but products they had purchased. Since they could not return the defective product to the manufacturer, they wanted it destroyed. When the demolition man destroyed the wrong product, well, might as well get the one that they wanted destroyed, too.
The modern commoditization of children, which IVF enables, renders abortion more acceptable. If you can play God when creating a pregnancy, what’s wrong with playing God to end one?
Jennifer – I totally agree. Those people do not deserve to be parents. It’s so sick.
Michael – Exactly.
Thank you, Michael. This couple killed god knows how many kids to get the two they had, are were very quick to throw them away when they weren’t what they had “ordered.”
Here’s hoping the Abortioneer didn’t conceive…
So they didn’t get the “perfect” children they wanted so just end the pregnancy? The child that was “good enough” for them was killed through their cold-hearted recklessness and the baby that wasn’t “good enough” to be their child was then killed later.
Nice people. When did we get so cold-hearted?
Beautifully said, Michael.
I wonder what would have happened over at Abortioneer if she gots prego?
Would her partner have made her abort?
Would she self-abort?
Would he leave her if she didn’t abort?
What a sick, sick relationship. The sad thing is this chicka doesn’t know it. :(
That’s why they call it ‘practicing’ medicine. It is an in-exact science, kind of like war.
When you are in the business of killing pre-natal children, sooner or later, there are going to be fatalities attributed to ‘collateral’ damage.
This kind of stuff happens in medicine, even under the best of circumstances, and is filed under ‘iatrogenic’.
Would we have heard about this at all if the abortionist had spared the down syndrome child, instead of killing both of them?
I keep hoping the unintended victim will be the abortionist herself/himself.
Now that would be poetic justice.
The abortionist aborts himself/herself.
Maybe the vaccum pump could short circuit and the butcher could be electrocuted before she/he ever picks up the curette.
Maybe the abortionist could develop an hypersensitivity to latex, have an allergic reaction and go into acute anaphylactic shock.
Maybe he/she could just slip in a puddle of blood and fall and fracture his/her skull.
yor bro ken
IVF has to go. Offspring are not little projects of their parents- they are human beings. This twin story is incredibly sad and cruel. It’s plain barbarism.
I oppose IVF because most children die from it. I oppose egg “donation” for the same reason.
Think of this egg “donor” (I use quotes because these women are paid a ton of money to hormonally stimulate their ovaries and have eggs harvested). The biological mother of these children sold her babies into death. Not the normal death of being conceived in an unnatural environment, but the abortion death via dismemberment. She is totally responsible.
And these companies sell egg “donation” as giving less fortunate infertile couples the gift of a child- and many women justify their greed (or desperation) by thinking they have done a good thing, when in reality, they have dozens of dead children with a father they never even met.
Well as long as he didn’t tell them “no…”
I’m going to crawl back under my rock now and hope that the world becomes a better place when I tunnel my way out again. o_O
An Abortioneer (language warning) admits that abstinence education isn’t the only reason for why some women fail to use contraceptives.
In fairness, did my side (pro-abort) ever argue that abstinence-only sex education is the biggest of unprotected teenage sex? I think the argument from my side has always been, ‘We’re human. We make mistakes. We need to educate teenagers and adults about multiple contraception methods.’
Oh, speaking of abstinence-only, did anyone see that the Health Care Reform act has a provision to pump more dollars into it?
It seems that Dr. Kachinas made a foolish decision that should cost him his license. A selective termination requires a lot more than an ultrasound machine. It requires a fellow (or nurse), and an anesthesiologist. In other words, it requires a real OR. He should have referred his patient to Jackson Memorial in Miami. They have the talent to do that sort of thing. And it’s more than a professional disaster. Its a tragedy for the patient and her family.
I oppose IVF because most children die from it.
Children who were born, or do you mean fertilized eggs?
@Dhalgren,
no such thing as a fertilized egg.
Learn the correct terminology in order to debate.
correct term: zygote
and yes, a zygote is a human being and human beings die during IVF
Could you imagine being a teenager and finding out your parents aborted your twin sibling? It would probably cause me to work alot harder at my studies to make sure to get straight A’s in an attempt to be perfect so Mom and Pop wouldn’t regret keeping me.
Jesus, we REALLY need your help here.
Two babies are dead, one because he/she was IMPERFECT and one because of a grave mistake. What a sick world we live in when a child who is not 100% perfect is destroyed out of selfishness!
God have mercy on us and our country.
LizfromNebraska!!! That is exactly what I thought.
My son chipped his front tooth last year…and we also realized he’s a little knock-kneed.
UH-OH…he’s not “perfect”! Time to get rid of my three year old. I don’t want to parent a less than “perfect” child you know…
Down Syndrome Babies Have A Right To Life!!!!!!
I wonder what would have happened over at Abortioneer if she gots prego?
Would her partner have made her abort?
Would she self-abort?
Would he leave her if she didn’t abort?
What a sick, sick relationship. The sad thing is this chicka doesn’t know it. :(
Angel, you are SO RIGHT! I “gots prego,” my partner made me abort, I “self-aborted” (what’s that mean exactly?), AND he left me for not aborting!
So sad I am late to the party, but I was busy being, as you said, a sicka-chicka (boom boom).
Nice of you to show up, since we aren’t welcome to post on your blog, I’ll tell you how deeply disturbing one of your later posts was:
“She slept on her side so her boyfriend couldn’t see her swelling tummy.”
What was her tummy swelling with? It’s not a broken ankle, it’s because a baby was growing, right? She had to hide the baby because the man she was sleeping beside was beating her. Ever consider helping her escape? This woman was 6 months pregnant. 6 MONTHS. She was so far along, she could have induced and the baby survived. I don’t expect that to disturb you, but it says something about her desperation and your complete failure to protect her.
I must ask, how do you not see something very sick about a woman who has a baby so large that she must hide her, going in to kill that baby. Why was the author more sad about the fact that she had to sell her grandmother’s pearls than that she felt she had to kill her child in order to not be beaten?
And what did you do? You took the pearl money to kill the child as she sobbed and send her BACK to the man who hit her. When she came back to pay off the rest of the abortion, she had a black eye. And yet, her ability to abort was of more concern than she was. Abortion did not help her. God knows where she is now, and if even she is alive.
So we have a dead baby and a wounded woman. Had she come to ME and not you, she would have been escorted with police to gather her things (including her precious pearls) and taken to a safe place- and given with help to rebuild her life. If she didn’t want to parent, we could have made an adoption plan and covered all her expenses. Instead, she got a dead baby for her money and a black eye.
How again are you helping women?
Hahaha, maybe you should try asking someone who wasn’t very obviously an impostor! I’m just a regular old lurker who found that comment from Angel to be about the silliest thing I’ve read here…did you also think I, fake blogger, really gots prego?
In seriousness, what does it mean to “self-abort”?