Twin Unborn Babies Die after Abortionist Kills Healthy One

Florida abortionist Matthew Kachinas lost his medical license April 20 after he killed a healthy unborn baby while trying to destroy the twin diagnosed with Down syndrome. After finding out the wrong baby was killed, the parents had the surviving child aborted as well, according to the St. Petersburg Times.

The parents came to Kachinas's Sarasota abortion clinic in January 2006 when the mother, identified only as "K.M.," was 16 weeks pregnant with twins conceived through in vitro fertilization, the Times reported. Doctors diagnosed the boy baby as having Down syndrome and a heart defect, but his sister was considered "normal." The parents wanted to abort the "defective" baby while allowing the girl to continue to term.

Kachinas has admitted that he had never performed a "selective reduction" abortion before. "It seemed like something that was within my purview, that I would be able to do safely and appropriately," he told the Times. "I have never, ever in my entire career ever said 'no' to a patient. And that was my downfall."

Using ultrasound as a guide, Kachinas injected what he thought was the boy with a lethal chemical. One week later, the parents discovered that the girl had actually been killed. In court hearings, Kachinas blamed the ultrasound machine for misidentifying the targeted child, according to the Sarasota Herald Tribune.

After discovering that the wrong baby had died, the parents came back to Kachinas to abort the remaining twin, the Times reported.

Kachinas told the Times that he will appeal the license revocation. He also said that he made a financial settlement with K.M. soon after the second abortion.