On Saint Blaise medical evenings are held conversations, contemplations about being a medical, about the current challenges of the public health system.
We had
medical evenings in November and December. In November we focused on
the
conflicts of a doctor’s life and in December on abortion. Below you
can read
the report of the evening written by our volunteer Hadnagy Margó:
Abortion seemed to be a
hard topic, we don’t talk about it, we turn away our heads. It was even
harder
to start this topic with a little fetus puppet in our hands. We
couldn’t be
indifferent.
I want to highlight just
a few facts from the presentation: Geneticist Jerome Lejeune thinks
that the
zygote is already life, because it has the entire human genome. In the
fifth
week of fetal life, when the prospective mother thinks that her period
is late,
a little heart begins to beat and in the seventh week he or she feels
the pain.
Is abortion a personal
matter? Maybe the procedure yes but it has an impact on the mother, on
the
father (sterility, a possible breast cancer, depression, relationship
breakdown), on the medical system (goes to the clinic two healthy
people, one
of them dies, the other patient is in bed) and on the whole society
(with
abortion we support the fact that the weak in society should be
cleaned).
And yet how is it that
42-50 million fetuses around the world are murdered? One of the
responses was
that perhaps the ignorance: mothers are not aware of this development,
they
can’t see the fetus. And
another why: killing
an ant does not matter, but if you kill an elephant, you'll have
problems. This
made me think. If someone would ask the medical oath from me the size
doesn’t
matter anymore.
But what about the
anomalies incompatible with life? The doctor Grif spoke of a beautiful
example
in which a pair knew that their child will be born with a malformation
and they
decided to undertake, and the were happy every day, while the child was
with
them. If the fetus is really incompatible will die in utero but if the
fetus
would have a few days to live, we have to give him the possibility to
die with
dignity.
And
finally I would like
to share a quote from Jensen Gianna: "I'm adopted," she began.
"My biological mother was 17 when I was born. At seven months pregnant,
she chose to have a saline abortion. But by the grace of God, I
survived."
(survived her abortions and now she is a singer and a writer)