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Sunday, September 12, 1999
Daily Southtown
Letters to the Editor
"Abortion controversy" and "Medical schizophrenia"

Abortion controversy

In your Aug. 29 article on the abortion controversy at Christ Hospital, Sue Reimbold, hospital spokesperson, explained that abortions are performed only when "the patient and her physician have determined that complex and critical maternal or fetal conditions threaten the life or health of the mother or developing fetus."

It is interesting to note that the hospital chooses to address the complex, critical, life-threatening condition of the unborn baby by killing it.

Richard H. Stanek
Mokena



Medical schizophrenia

In your story about Christ Hospital and its second trimester abortions, two things need to be pointed out. First is the fact that these guidelines selectively destroy a fully developed baby with physical or mental disabilities. Second is the fact that these little ones often survive the abortion and are born alive leaving them to die in the arms of the nurse if she has the time to care for them.

It appears Christ Hospital has a schizophrenic medical practice with its hi-tech neonatal center trying to save premature babies and its labor and delivery destroying those deemed unfit to live.

Christ Hospital calls these abortions therapeutic. The question is: How therapeutic is the abortion for the baby whose right to life is denied by the powers that be?

Nancy M. Czerwiec
Director
The Human Life Resource Center
Chicago

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