Doctors have carried out an abortion on the ‘wrong’ child after mixing up mothers in a Prague hospital. Czech police are currently looking into the case as one of bodily harm.
The mother was four months pregnant when she went to Bulovka University Hospital for a check-up, but doctors mistook her for another woman due to have a surgical procedure known as a curettage, which can also cause an abortion.
The wrongful abortion has so far been blamed on a “language barrier” as the mother, who couldn’t speak Czech, did not realise that she was assenting to the procedure as she nodded and signed related documents.
A spokesperson for the hospital has apologised to the mother and her family for the “unfortunate incident” while also offering to “compensate” her for the loss of her baby.
The staff involved have been suspended while an investigation is carried out.
A similar incident occurred in South Korea in 2019 when medical staff aborted the child of the wrong mother, as reported by SPUC. Abortion pills were also given out wrongly to a woman in Birmingham, England, in 2008.
SPUC comment
A SPUC spokesperson said: “It’s clear that this mother and her baby have been failed cruelly by medics whose negligence can never be undone or repaid.
“However, this case is part of a broader horror perpetrated every day around the world as thousands of children are deliberately targeted and killed by abortion. These babies have just as much of a right to life as the child lost in Prague last month.
“In the end, no unborn child or mother will be safe until we create a world where abortion is unthinkable.”
