Oh, what a poor soul, child of impermanence and suffering, never able to attain the best of lives — to never have been born, to never have existed, to be nothing. But for you, there is the next best thing — to die on the spot.
Item #: SCP-CN-3979
Object Class: Keter
Special Containment Procedures: The promotion of anti-abortion legislation to prevent the occurrence of SCP-CN-3979 has been rejected due to public pressure and Ethics Committee opposition. Foundation webcrawler D1N4 is to monitor electronic medical records throughout China and dispatch personnel to intervene and administer amnestics to the involved personnel upon detecting a potential occurrence.
Description: SCP-CN-3979 is a probabilistic bureaucratohazard, which affects the process of medical diagnosis and treatment carried out by healthcare organizations. When a woman or couple with a child consults a healthcare professional for health issues faced by the child, the anomaly, if it occurs, will cause the affected healthcare professional to recommend an immediate abortion. With the exception of the child in question, no other involved personnel, including the parents, other medical staff, law enforcement, etc. will question this recommendation.
The affected medical professional will typically encourage family members under the age of eighteen to undergo medical abortion; this consists of providing or forcibly administering a lethal dose of tranqulizer, leading to rapid and sudden death. In the vast majority of cases, all personnel involved will not realize the error, leading to the death of the child.
In the case of children who have reached adulthood, medical personnel will deliberately speak to the parents in private and recommend surgical abortion. This will take the form of killing the subject by first rendering them unconscious, either with anaesthetic or physical attack, followed by killing the subject with medical equipment. In some cases, the subject will sense that something is wrong and attempt to fight back; this typically leads to the parents and other witnesses joining in to assist with the killing. This almost always leads to the subject's death.
The effects of SCP-CN-3979 typically last for around 1 or 2 days. Records of the operation will similarly affect readers.
Addendum: The following is an example of a discussion between a doctor and a subject's parents during an SCP-CN-3979 occurrence.
Doctor: In cases like this, I recommend abortion.
(pause)
Parent: What? Doc, he only has a sore throat.
Doctor: But he might have other problems in the future. It's best to abort it.
Parent: If I have another baby, will it be affected?
Doctor: There might be, but I recommend making the decision now. Who knows what might happen in the future?
(pause)
Parent: In that case, do you recommend surgical or medical abortion?
Doctor: Surgical. It'll be safer. It's already in the eightieth trimester, so medical abortion might have side effects.
Parent: Okay then. When can we expect to have the surgery?
(pause)
Doctor: Right now.
This was the first occurrence of SCP-CN-3979 discovered by the Foundation, after noticing an abortion procedure with a 400% mortality rate in the hospital's medical records.Records indicate that during the procedure, the lead physician, anaesthetist, and two nurses died due to severe injuries caused by the victim's attmepts at resistance. The victim proceeded to escape the operating room and request help from his parents; however, they instead beat the victim with a blunt instrument over the head repeatedly until he was unable to move before sending him back to the operating room for another attempt.
Surveillance records indicate that during this process, the subject was constantly screaming for help. However, other people present at the scene indicated that they did not hear anything in later interviews.