Posted on 01/27/2014 8:10:12 AM PST by Morgana
“... could not be
born alive this early in pregnancy.” If the unborn child was growing that child was alive and the highlighted sentence is a blatant manipulative lie.
I don’t care what lib Federal Judge says.
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You do understand that this is a Texas District Court and not a Federal Court
as you indicated. What do you know that makes this judge a liberal other than
you don’t like his current application of Texas State law?
I would like to have an autopsy done on both mother and child, but there may be no requirement under state law that the family be obligated to allow this. And my curiosity isn’t a sufficient reason for them to be required to allow it.
Operation Rescue is over-reaching here. There appears to be no medical doubt this poor woman was brain-dead. The law requires a mother be kept alive till the fetus is viable. It does not require that a corpse be kept functioning in a case like this.
To insist that a law means what you think it ought to mean rather than what it says is to a very considerable extent how we got into our present mess. Living Constitution and all that.
Bad things happen in the world, and laws simply cannot adequately address them all.
Someone yesterday said who appointed this judge and it was not Bush. Yes he’s a lib.
Jesus wept.
“To insist that a law means what you think it ought to mean ...” Are you trying to make a personal accusation, that I am trying to make a law read the way I want it to? If so, why try to divert this into a flame war? Agenda?
This is a district court of the State of Texas. The Judge was appointed by
Gov. Perry in 2010 to the judgeship and he ran for and was reelected in 2012.
So you have nothing other than this ruling to show his liberal bend.
“The husband says his wife didn’t want to be kept on life support.”
MAYBE, but what would she have said just before they pulled the plug? Would a mother want to continue to exist so that her baby might survive? I say her answer would be yes, I choose “LIFE” for my baby.
They had to act quickly because in a couple weeks the baby could be argued to be viable, thus (legally) their own person.
Who are these people that can murder little babies?
It makes me SICK! and outraged.
Terri was brain damaged, this woman was brain dead. In Terri’s case there was a clear financial motive for killing her.
Is there such a motive in this case? For better or worse when you get married you are giving your spouse the power to make decisions like this.
Call me old school but, I’d feel better if Bush put him in.
You actually think there was a “good” outcome from this? Dead mothers cannot support a pregnancy. There was no way this was going to end well. It’s a horribly sad case. But the time for hoping was over. The time for grief is upon them.
I’m pretty extreme in my anti-abortion views. I’m pro-life when there is any hope at all. But I’m not for trying to play God, pretending there is hope when there is none. Every life ends and sometimes it’s hard to accept, but there it is. Let them go to God.
Hell for that matter I’d feel even better if Ronald Reagan had put him in.
I’m not sure how the hospital can fight this. If they try to thwart the husband’s wishes, they lose in court, and probably in the court of public opinion. If they follow the law as interpreted by the court, they obviously lose in the court of public opinion.
How can they fight this and not damage themselves?
My reference was to the apparent position of Operation Rescue as described in the article.
I don’t know your position on the issue, and I don’t know you personally. My comments were strictly about individuals who might hold a particular position.
I used “you” in the comment in the somewhat grammatically incorrect but very common usage of “one.” As in, “if you believe” being equivalent to “if one believes.”
“Dead” mothers on life support give birth all the time. Yes good comes from it. It can and does happen.
“Boo-hoo-hoo. We’re so sad about the baby we killed.”
“Would the wife have agreed to be kept on life support long enough to allow her baby to survive? Was that scenario ever part of their discussions? Doubt it. “
I dunno, is it possible to keep the womans body alive for another 20 weeks on the machines? I’ve heard that the organs will shut down after a few days once the brain is no longer functioning.
I’d certainly say her husband has a better idea of what she wanted then anybody else except her mom & dad.
Has an autopsy been done on the mother and child.. or will there be one?
Yea that is just what abortionist say daily.
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