Exclusive: Twenty Years of Eugenic Abortion at Ontario Catholic Hospital

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No, No and NO! I am sick of Catholics justifying aborting the disabled. This is nothing more than everyone getting together and agreeing that a disabled child will be a burden and that once again, death is best.

I was born with a major birth defect, complete with disabilities and deformities. As I have mentioned before and will say again, I have been able to drive, attend college, work, and get married. Basically living a normal life.

I realize the babies in this article have more profound disabling conditions than I, but I argue that they still have the right to a natural birth and that our Father will take them home in HIS TIME.

How much longer will the Lord put up with people of FAITH justifying murder??
 
Prieur explained that in order to do the early induction for infants with lethal fetal anomalies, “the babies have to be viable. It has to be done after 21 weeks just in case there’s a misdiagnosis. Then we can bring that child to term in a neonatal intensive care unit.” Asked if such life-saving treatments are afforded to a child with the disorder, he replied, “No, no there’s nothing you can do. Some of these conditions you know, we’ve had babies that are terribly deformed. Oh my goodness, I mean you pray that the baby will die. They come out terribly deformed. Nature’s full of surprises. And remember we’re not bound to the impossible. We don’t have to preserve life at all costs. We let people die. That’s not foreign to Catholic teaching. Allowing death is a normal thing.”

Prieur made a distinction between killing the baby via early induction of labour versus killing the baby by dismemberment in the womb. “And so we do not dismember the baby when we bring the baby out. Some hospitals would use dilatation and evacuation which means they would bring the child out in pieces. We will not allow that,” he said.
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There are just no words. 😦 :nope:
 
Regardless of the health condition of the baby. If the baby can live, s/he will live. If s/he can’t, s/he can’t. It is no one’s place to decide otherwise.
 
I’ve met Fr. Prieur on four seperate occations, as well, a good deal of the priests I know were taught sacremental theology by him.

To me he was always VERY good at what he did, very good, old orderded strict catholic teaching. Walking into St. Peters Seminary, you could feel that you were in some place different.

The only thing that was odd was the suprisingly low level of vocations to the priesthood there. It went from 20 to 30 graduating per year in the 50s to 1 or 2 per year in the 90s, which I guess is typical of everywhere.

I was always very impressed with him, I have no idea why in his right mind he would have attempted to defend the indefensibe on both the winnipeg statement AND these horrific eugenic abortions. He will be in my prayers.
 
He seems to justify this because he wants to prevent the ‘psychological trauma’ of the mother rather than try to save what he believes is a hopeless case.

But, wouldn’t it be more psychologically traumatic for a Catholic woman to kill the baby, than to give birth to it and care for it until it dies???

Even if the mother is sure she wants the procedure, I don’t see how the principle of double-effect can apply here, since the stated objective of the procedure is the death of the fetus. It doesn’t make much sense. Maybe we need a bio-ethical commission established by the bishops in Canada like they have in the USA.
 
What authority does Bishop Fabbro have in regard to this hospital? Bear in mind that Canadian and Ontario laws may be different than in the US.
 
childofmary1143 said:
What authority does Bishop Fabbro have in regard to this hospital? Bear in mind that Canadian and Ontario laws may be different than in the US.
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Considering we have socialized medicine? My thinking is he doesn’t have any.

However, the bishop does have the authority, and responsibility, to deal with Fr. Prieur on this matter.
 
I read the article and found myself so confused by how my conscience viewed the opposing stances. No question that one must follow the conscience of the Magisterium, and trust in its guidance by the Holy Spirit. I think one thing that guides Catholic thinking is the idea of hope, as opposed to giving in to the idea of hopelessness. One thing one must be careful to avoid is the tendency of reason without faith to delegate to ourselves decisions that are God’s alone.
 
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Considering we have socialized medicine? My thinking is he doesn’t have any.

However, the bishop does have the authority, and responsibility, to deal with Fr. Prieur on this matter.
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UPDATE:

In speaking with a friend who works within the Pro-Life associations, he advised me that while the Bishop can’t directly stop what is going on, he can have the Catholic designation removed and limit what Catholic funding is going on there.

Assuming this to be true, the Bishop has the ability to distance himself and his diocese from silently supporting these abominable practices.

If he does nothing but maintain the status quo tell me how he isn’t supporting this?
 
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