Spanish pro-life group opposes termination

[Una Smith]

This news article (in Spanish) is about a pro-life movement to
prevent mothers of SCT babies from having the option to terminate:
http://www.negocios.com/02-07-2008+alicia_latorre_ciencia_va_dando_razon_defensa_vida,noticia_1img,14,14,25007

Alicia Latorre, President of the Spanish Federation of Pro-Life
Associations, argues that because many babies with a sacrococcygeal
teratoma have a good prognosis, the diagnosis of an SCT should not
make the pregnancy a candidate for therapeutic abortion. According
to "la Generalitat" (I don't know what organization that is), the
incidence of SCTs has fallen; Ms. Latorre claims this is "probably
due to elective termination of pregnancy."

Apparently, this follows on a media story about Hospital La Fe de
Valencia, successfully performing fetal intervention and later
removing an SCT that weighed 1.4kg (about 3 pounds). The tumor is
described as the "third largest tumor in the history of medicine".
It did weigh just slightly more than the baby.

Here is that story, also in Spanish:
http://www.levante-emv.com/secciones/noticia.jsp?pRef=2008070300_19_467967__Comunitat-Valenciana-Cirujanos-extirpan-tercer-tumor-grande-mundoa-recien-nacido

Una

[Una Smith]

Here is a newspaper story from England about a teenage boy with a
mediastinal teratoma, malignant, who elected to stop chemotherapy.
He died suddenly, in April, but the investigation that followed has
found he died not from the cancer but from pneumonia.

http://www.thisisgloucestershire.co.uk/latestnews/Teenage-cancer-victim-refused-chemo/article-244719-detail/article.html

Hug your little ones.

Una