Current Event 1: Italy investigates report baby lived through abortion

this article is about a baby in italy that survived an abortion and lived an entire day at twenty-two weeks. A normal pregnancy lasts 40 weeks, so this baby was half way through which is not only morally wrong, but illegal. in italian law, a woman can only have an abortion over twenty weeks if the baby has physical or mental defects.

this article is of global importance because although it is a moral issue, and that is just cruel. A bishop in italy saw that the newborn was still breathing, he took the child to a hospital, but it had died three hours after. "The health ministry's own investigation will start Monday to determine if abortion law was breached, and will take the findings of the other two probes into account, the ministry representative said."