Valentina Milluzzo
Another Savita Halappanavar, this time in Italy.
Italian prosecutors have begun an inquiry into the death after a miscarriage of a woman of 32 who was pregnant with twins.
The family of Valentina Milluzzo said the doctor treating her refused to abort the foetuses because he was a “conscientious objector” to abortion.
The hospital involved has categorically rejected the family’s claims.
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Milluzzo was admitted to Cannizzaro hospital in the Sicilian city of Catania on 29 September after suffering complications and going into premature labour in her 19th week of pregnancy. She had had fertility treatment at another health centre.
She was in a stable condition in hospital for more than a fortnight but on 15 October her blood pressure and temperature dropped and her condition worsened.
According to the family’s lawyer, one of the foetuses was suffering breathing problems. The lawyer alleges that the gynaecologist refused to abort the foetuses in order to save the mother and said: “As long as it’s alive, I will not intervene.”
No action was taken while the troubled foetus was still alive and hours later both had died, the lawyer said.
Overnight, the mother’s condition deteriorated and she contracted an infection. On 16 October she was transferred to intensive care, where she died.
Apparently all the doctors in that hospital refuse to perform abortions.
A senior doctor at the hospital, Paolo Scollo, told the Corriere website that all the doctors in his department were “objectors”, and external doctors were called in when necessary. “However, in this case we’re talking about a spontaneous miscarriage, no external help was needed. So we do not think the doctor was negligent,” he said.
But sometimes a miscarriage does need external help – as in the case of Savita Halappanavar, for instance.
70% of doctors in Italy refuse to perform abortions.
They love life so much that they would rather people die. It almost seems… oh, I don’t know. Unreasonable?
How many women have to die to appease the “pro-life” movement?
Did they all pledge the hypocratic oath by misteak? Fire them!
“No intervention was necessary” + the patient died. put together the quote and the fact, and it looks like pregnant women dying is the objective rather than an accidental outcome of the doctors making a mistake.
Colin: All the ones god claims as his own, it would seem.
And every time I read one of these stories, I shudder in terror and rage. My wife’s miscarriage could’ve turned into one of these, if fortune had gone a different way (we were at a Catholic hospital because they were the closest “in network” provider, and in a panic situation like that, you don’t get choosy.
And all the ones with the misfortune to live in a country god claims as his own.
And all the ones who live in an area where the only hospital is one god claims as his own.
All medical care should be between a mother and her doctor – and the doctor should not be brainwashed by any religion into thinking that any particular medical intervention is off the table.
Besides, it’s obvious that the Christian God hates unborn (and born) babies, so claiming he hates elective abortion seems bizarre.
Even discounting all the horrible stories in the bible where he orders their deaths, often in graphically hideous ways, there is the simple fact that he ‘naturally’ aborts them at a (conservatively) estimated rate of more than four times that of elective abortions.
Many people are alive today because medical intervention saved them from the natural consequences of natural abortion, and saved the lives of their mothers into the bargain. Defying God’s will?
When people intervene to prevent elective abortion, allegedly on God’s behalf, not only do they ensure that the women die, but they never, ever seem to save a single fœtus either, despite that being their apparent aim.
I’ve never had an elective abortion; but, thanks to EDS, I have had several natural ones (aka miscarriages). One of them was my daughter’s twin, and I spent a large part of the pregnancy in hospital where they successfully prevented me miscarrying her, too (ultrasound scanning was in its infancy at the time, and they had no idea why I was having such a hard time). Of course, her twin’s remains nearly killed me after delivery, when they caused post-partum hæmorrhage (which remained hidden for a few days). Again, modern scientific medicine came to the rescue.
Fortunately, all of that took place in the UK. Totally free healthcare, for me and for my premature babies. No interference from any church. They did what they had to do with the information they had at the time, which was why I trusted them to keep me alive when I found myself with another unplanned twin pregnancy nine years later, even though the prognosis wasn’t good. With my doctors’ support, I was able to give the pregnancy a chance, knowing that they could step in and end it anytime that my health was in greater danger; and my twin sons, born at 34 weeks when I got pre-eclampsia, are 23 years old.
That’s something else Trump and his ilk don’t get; when a pregnancy is ended late for the health of the mother, nobody is standing there ‘ripping’ anything from the mother’s womb, or attempting to kill the newborn. Whenever the fœtus is viable, every attempt is made to give them the best possible care in the hopes that they’ll survive too. But when pregnancies are ended because the fœtus isn’t viable, it is the most heart-rending decision an expectant mother can make; why torture her by making her into a walking sarcophagus? Oh, silly me; it’s because the truth of the matter isn’t that God hates abortion. It’s that the religions formed in his name hate women.