Matthew Kachinas was supposed to do an abortion on one of the twin babies who had Down syndrome but wound up killing the other baby in the failed abortion.
Kachinas injected a chemical to kill the baby in the abortion, but the injection ultimately killed the healthy unborn child.
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The pregnancy in question involved unborn children conceived through in-vitro fertilization. Records show that after the "wrong" baby was killed in the first abortion, a second abortion was done to kill the disabled unborn child as well. The babies were 15 weeks along at the time of the abortion.
At 15 weeks, we can already make a judgment about which children are "fit," and which are not. We don't punish doctors for carrying out a social Darwinian agenda by aborting unfit children. We just punish them when they don't do it right.
A relative of mine commented that there's this strange irony in our culture: a perfect stranger will make judgmental comments to a pregnant woman who is smoking, yet we do nothing to prohibit access to abortion. But perhaps there's not much irony in this at all. Our culture has come to believe that if life can't measure up to a standard of fitness, then it shouldn't even exist. If a child can't have a perfect upbringing, it's better to just kill him before he has to go through that.
I wonder if it occurs to people that "mistakes" like the one made by Kachinas point to the utter finality of abortion. The siblings were not the same. Nor will those children ever come back. Every child conceived in the womb is unique; his genetic signature will never again be seen on the planet. Ever.
I tremble when I think that we measure the value of human life based on a false Utopian view of the world. You would have thought people had been warned enough against this kind of ideology.
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