tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5434327769093668747.post3635719897233638..comments2024-01-02T07:54:42.788-05:00Comments on Bishop's Blog: United Methodist Position on Birth Control and AbortionBishop's Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01798640292459548501noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5434327769093668747.post-69048539173482256252012-04-24T03:38:13.491-04:002012-04-24T03:38:13.491-04:00Balanced and prayerful? Prayer and discernment? Wh...Balanced and prayerful? Prayer and discernment? What do we pray about in an abortion- to get Jesus to bless our act of poking a needle into a living baby's heart, as if Jesus were an early incarnation of Adolf Hitler?<br /><br />I can't imagine how people can get self-righteous about "reproductive rights" in this context, and talk in a cool, cold way about inducing fetal demise. Here's a quote from the abstract of an article from a "Society of Family Planning" journal":<br /><br />"For decades, the induction of fetal demise has been used before both surgical and medical second-trimester abortion. Intracardiac<br />potassium chloride and intrafetal or intra-amniotic digoxin injections are the pharmacologic agents used most often to induce fetal demise. In<br />the last several years, induction of fetal demise has become more common before second-trimester abortion. The only randomized, placebocontrolled trial of induced fetal demise before surgical abortion used a 1 mg injection of intra-amniotic digoxin before surgical abortion at<br />20–23 weeks' gestation and found no difference in ... etc."<br /><br />Also:<br /><br />"In the literature describing induction termination, there have been multiple case reports of unintended live births"<br /><br />"By ensuring<br />demise before the termination is begun, live birth cannot<br />occur, thus avoiding entirely the problem that faces the<br />provider, the team of caregivers and the patient undergoing<br />induction or D&E if the patient were to expel the fetus with<br />signs of life"<br /><br />"Providers are also<br />concerned about potential legal ramifications from an<br />unintended live birth"<br /><br />"Inducing fetal demise before induction termination<br />avoids signs of live birth that may have beneficial<br />emotional, ethical and legal consequences"<br /><br />Also, look at another medical site:<br /><br />"As discussed above, standard methods of pregnancy termination via labor induction do not ensure fetal demise during the procedure. A live birth in this setting can be psychologically and emotionally difficult for the family and staff; feticide removes this possibility."Roger Keithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18048294908244148929noreply@blogger.com