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Wrong Twin Aborted

Selective Abortion Case Sparks Furor in Italy

BY EDWARD PENTIN

REGISTER CORRESPONDENT

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VATICAN CITY — The Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano condemned it as eugenics “imposing its law.” The Italian Association of Catholic Doctors denounced it as the “fruit of an egotistic culture.”

Both were reacting to recent revelations about a botched selective abortion: In June, a doctor in a Milan hospital mistakenly aborted a healthy baby instead of a twin sister with Down Syndrome.

After discovering that the abortionist had killed the “wrong” child — the doctor was...

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