Rebecca Price and Patrick Kiely outside the Four Courts, Dublin, after the settlement of their High Court action for damages in 2021. Photograph: Collins Courts
It took the HSE six years, eight months and 22 days to issue an unequivocal apology for the death of baby Christopher Kiely, son of Rebecca Price and Patrick Kiely.
The HSE announced an independent review into how Christopher, a perfectly healthy and much-loved baby, was aborted after being wrongly diagnosed with Trisomy 18.
This condition is often described as a fatal foetal abnormality, a dehumanising term. The National Standards for Bereavement Care following Pregnancy Loss and Perinatal Death do not use it. They prefer the term life-limiting condition, not least because each so-called fatal foetal abnormality has rare instances of long-term survivors.
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