Another abortion committed in hospital co-administered by Catholic diocese
Matthew Cullinan Hoffman
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October 3, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Contrary to repeated denials by the Archdiocese of Barcelona that abortions are continuing to be performed in a hospital it helps to administer, a Spanish health journal is reporting a recent eugenic abortion performed at the hospital on a 24-week old unborn child, who was killed because of a deformity.
In addition to the death of the child, his twin suffered ill health effects and premature birth that were directly attributed to the abortion, while the mother is reported to have been psychologically devastated by guilt, to the point she has been unable to bond with her surviving son. In the medical journal article, a hospital official who oversaw the case says the woman’s feelings are “irrational” and “inappropriate.”
The account of the abortion is found in the September issue of Spanish healthcare magazine “Rol,” and addresses the case of Juan, the surviving twin. At 24 weeks gestation, the age generally agreed by doctors to be the point of viability outside the womb, doctors at Barcelona’s Santa Creu i Sant Pau (Holy Cross and St. Paul) Hospital performed what the magazine clinically calls a “reduction,” killing Juan’s brother because of an unnamed defect in his development.
According to María Serret Serret, a professor of Nursing Sciences who teaches nursing students at the hospital, she noticed that Juan’s mother was exhibiting “a great number of negative thoughts” in the aftermath of the abortion and premature birth, which “interfered notably in the process of bonding with her (surviving) son.” The “negative thoughts” included “sadness, fear, anxiety, anguish, guilt, and a feeling of inability of caring for her baby.”
Serret worked with Juan’s mother to overcome what appears to have been post-abortion syndrome by “analyzing the inappropriate feelings.”
“Each one of the negative thoughts is evaluated with the mother, and it is shown that they have been produced in an irrational way, that errors have been committed in their production,” such as “all or nothing thoughts, overgeneralizations, mental filters, jumping to conclusions, emotional reasoning, universal labeling, with personalization and guilt.”
This is followed by “modification of thinking,” in which “more realistic and useful alternatives are sought based on the evidence, the existing possibilities, the consequences of said thoughts, and the errors of reasoning that are being committed,” according to Serret’s detached analysis.
The article provides more evidence that abortions are continuing to be performed at the Santa Creu i Sant Pau Hospital, as well as other Barcelona-area hospitals which are linked to the Catholic Church and whose boards of directors are partially comprised of Catholic priests. One Barcelona priest, Fr. Custodio Ballester, as well as other pro-life activists, have been organizing monthly protests (www.lifesitenews.com/news/after-more-than-a-year-protests-continue-asking-catholic-barcelona-hospital/) in front of the hospital.
As LifeSiteNews.com also reported in December of last year, the Santa Creu i Sant Pau Hospital’s chief gynecologist functions as the medical expert for a pharmaceutical company website designed to induce women to use contraceptives, including abortifacient hormonal contraceptives.
The Catholic news agency ACI Prensa additionally reported in May of this year that a young woman, whose name was withheld, says she was recently offered an abortion twice at the same hospital.
Although the bishop of the nearby diocese of Terrassa has denounced abortions carried out in hospitals there, he says that he has been advised by the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith that he may continue to seek to persuade the hospitals not to engage in abortions, using the leverage of Catholic board members. However, the Cardinal Archbishop of Barcelona continues to stonewall those who observe that the Santa Creu i Sant Pau Hospital and other Barcelona hospitals appear to be continuing to kill the unborn.
Related links: Petition requesting that hospital cease to do abortions circulated by the Saint Andrew’s Cross Association of Spain www.cruzdesanandres.org/firmar.php?idnoticia=151