By Rachel Mary Guy
Dec. 24, 2020, edited 2024
The Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynecology
RCOG is the European pro abortion version of ACOG. I wanted to bring up the subject of babies in the womb and outside who have disabilities and how many in the medical community particularly RCOG has a double standard in seeing some children with disabilities as worth fighting for and others worth preemptively killing.
RCOG has a double standard on the lives they choose to protect. RCOG states in one statement that abortion is somehow ‘medical care’ while on the contrary saying they care about children with disabilities. See the following statements from their site and then one from the Instagram page.
RCOG says, “If you think you want an abortion, you should see your general practitioner (GP), practice nurse or family planning clinic. They can refer you to a National Health Service (NHS) or independent abortion service as you wish. If you prefer, you can contact an NHS or independent service directly.
- You should not have to wait more than 2 weeks from your first referral to the time of your abortion.
- Abortion is a safe procedure for which major complications are uncommon at any stage of pregnancy. The earlier in your pregnancy you have an abortion, the safer it is.
- You should ideally be offered a choice of different methods, depending on how long you have been pregnant.” (https://www.rcog.org.uk/for-the-public/browse-all-patient-information-leaflets/information-about-abortion-care/)
It is tragic to me that RCOG stands for abortion/the preemptive killing of children. Abortion is harmful and is not healthcare. Abortion wounds women as a woman cannot take the life of their child and go unscathed. Abortion takes the child’s life. Terminology matters and by RCOG not considering the harm done in abortion criminal, then the viewpoint is that abortion is somehow ‘healthcare.’
This is what happens to a baby during the most common abortion procedures in the first, second, and third trimester abortions. The pro life organization, Live Action, did the following videos and descriptions of abortion through making the pro life site abortionprocedures.com. I reference their written descriptions of abortion in the following below.
1st Trimester Abortion pill:
The pro life site shares, “The woman visits an abortion clinic or doctor’s office and ingests pills containing Mifepristone (also known as RU-486) at the clinic. This drug blocks the action of the hormone called “progesterone,” which is naturally produced by the mother’s body to enable the mother to sustain and nourish the pregnancy. When RU-486 blocks progesterone, the lining of the mother’s uterus breaks down, cutting off blood and nourishment to the baby, who then dies inside the mother’s womb. Twenty-four to forty-eight hours later, the woman ingests another drug called Misoprostol (also called Cytotec), administered orally or vaginally, which causes contractions and bleeding to expel the baby from the womb.”
https://www.abortionprocedures.com/abortion-pill/
1st Trimester abortion DnC:
The pro life site shares, “A suction, or aspiration, D&C abortion is performed in-clinic. Prior to the abortion, the woman should receive an exam that includes an ultrasound in order to confirm that she is pregnant and diagnose any complicating factors, such as a tubal, or ectopic, pregnancy. An abortionist uses metal rods or medication to dilate the woman’s cervix and gain access to the uterus, where the baby resides. The abortionist then inserts a suction catheter to vacuum the child from the womb. The suction machine has a force approximately 10 to 20 times the force of a household vacuum cleaner. The procedure is completed as the abortionist uses a sharp metal device called a curette to empty the remains of the child from the mother’s uterus.1″
Aspiration Suction Abortion | What You Need To Know (abortionprocedures.com)
2nd Trimester:
The pro Life site shares, “A dilation (dilatation) and evacuation abortion, D&E, is a surgical abortion procedure during which an abortionist first dilates the woman’s cervix and then uses instruments to dismember and extract the baby from the uterus. The D&E abortion procedure is usually performed between thirteen and twenty-four weeks LMP (that is thirteen to twenty-four weeks after the first day of the woman’s last menstrual period).”
D & E Abortion Procedure | What You Need To Know (abortionprocedures.com)
3rd Trimester:
The pro life site shares, “Day 1: To help ensure the baby will be delivered dead and not alive, the abortionist uses a large needle to inject digoxin or potassium chloride through the woman’s abdomen or vagina, targeting the baby’s heart, torso, or head. When the digoxin takes effect, the lethal dose causes a fatal cardiac arrest, and the baby’s life will end. (Even if the needle misses the baby, digoxin can still kill the baby when released into the amniotic sack, but will usually take longer to kill the child.)
During the same visit, the abortionist inserts multiple laminaria sticks, or sterilized seaweed, to open up the woman’s cervix.
Day 2: The abortionist replaces the laminaria and may perform a second ultrasound to ensure that the baby is dead. If the child is still alive, the abortionist administers a second lethal dose of digoxin or potassium chloride. During this visit, the abortionist may administer labor-inducing drugs.
The woman goes back to where she is staying while her cervix continues to dilate. The woman will usually wait a period of two to four days for her cervix to dilate enough for her to deliver the dead baby.
Day 3 or 4: The woman returns to the clinic to deliver her dead baby. If she goes into labor before she can make it to the abortion clinic in time, she will deliver her baby at home or in a hotel room. During this time, a woman may be advised to sit on a bathroom toilet until the abortionist arrives. If she can make it to the clinic, she will do so during her most heavy and severe contractions and deliver the dead baby.
If the child does not come out whole, the procedure becomes a D&E, or a dilation and evacuation. The abortionist uses clamps and forceps to dismember and remove the baby piece by piece.1
- Darney, P.D., et al. “Digoxin to facilitate late second-trimester abortion: a randomized, masked, placebo-controlled trial.,” Obstetrics and Gynecology, Vol. 97, Issue 3, Mar.2001, pp. 471-476. <www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11239659>.”
Induction Abortion | What You Need To Know (abortionprocedures.com)
RCOG has two differing viewpoints toward people who have disabilities. RCOG heartbreakingly stands for the killing of children who have diagnoses in utero. RCOG shares, “This report is intended to assist doctors and other health professionals to support women and their families when a fetal abnormality is diagnosed and to help women to decide, within the constraints of the law, whether or not to have the pregnancy terminated. It is designed to be explanatory rather than prescriptive and does not purport to give ethical guidance.”(https://www.rcog.org.uk/guidance/browse-all-guidance/other-guidelines-and-reports/termination-of-pregnancy-for-fetal-abnormality-in-england-scotland-and-wales/)
It is disturbing to think that they think they are “supporting” women by telling them to kill their own children because of a health condition, disability, and being in utero. It is horrible how RCOG considers the children in utero who have a disability or diagnoses as worthy of being preemptively killed through abortion. It is horrendous. They completely dismiss the intrinsic worth of children in utero who have disabilities all because they do not understand that our worth comes not from our health status or location but from Our Lord.
RCOG also believes in doing prenatal testing, which one may not find to be a huge concern yet prenatal testing is often used to target children for abortion who are diagnosed with a health condition or disability in utero.
They almost punish children in utero who have disabilities as if it is their own fault as RCOG believes in the preemptive killing of children who have disabilities in the womb.
Yet on the contrary RCOG yearns to fight for babies who have been born with disabilities due to complications during labor.
The Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynecology says that they want to save babies lives who die from disabilities. Their slogan is ‘each one counts’ The RCOG Instagram page states, “Show your support for #TeamRCOG and Each Baby Counts at @ridelondon this weekend. Each Baby Counts aims to reduce the number of babies who die, or are left with severe disability, as a result of incidents occurring during term labour http://bit.ly/2Oc7L4h #philanthropy #womenshealth #gynaecology #obstetrics #labour #childbirth #healthcare #ridelondon #charitybikeride”
site: https://www.instagram.com/rcobsgyn/
If they claim “Every Baby Counts” due to this situation and reasoning for caring for babies with disabilities due to “incidents occurring during term labor” then why won’t they care for the babies in utero or those who their mother went into early labor (not just term labor) naturally. If they say they care for each baby then they truly need to invest in each child in utero who have disabilities by fighting for their lives in utero, during birth and after birth and completely eradicating their pro abortion/double standard of standing for the killing of children in utero. They must practice the true reality of what it means to see how “Each Baby Counts” and not discriminate against children due to their location or disability. It is horrific how they pick and choose children they think should be and should not be fought for all based upon if the child is born or in utero and has a disability or diagnoses that they were diagnosed with in the womb or if the child has a disability due to labor.
On one hand, if they say they care for children with disabilities in their post on social media and yet on another they eugenically target them how is this ‘caring’ for those who have a disability? Is it simply their difference in location that justifies the act of preemptively killing of someone with a diagnosis? Of course not.
Our personhood is already defined by the Lord and our health status or means of conception does not define our value but rather God who made us at fertilization. We are valuable not from our birth but from our moment of fertilization. No matter the situation your child may be going through health-wise, know that there is hope and that your baby’s value is still the same as when doctors hadn’t known their sickness as our worth doesn’t come from our health status, but from Jesus.
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