Saint Blaise medical evenings



On Saint Blaise medical evenings are held conversations, contemplations about being a medical, about the current challenges of the public health system.

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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)