Here’s a moral quandary for people who believe in no abortion under any circumstances: fetus in fetu. It happens–in both boys and girls–in 1 of every 500,000 births. It is a fetus within a newborn baby. Some say it’s more of a tumor. But sometimes there’s no question, as in the case of the Hong Kong baby with twins inside her, twins that were 8-10 weeks developed, with arms, legs, spine, ribs, intestines, and an umbilical cord each. (No, this isn’t something from National Inquirer. Read about it in the U.K. Mirror article.) The medical team removed them surgically when the girl was three weeks old.
Was that an abortion? Of course it was. Was it morally right? That’s a knotty question. Should the newborn and her twins have been allowed to die instead?
I’ll leave the answers to people far more intelligent, moral, and spiritual than I am.