Posted on 08/10/2011 3:19:23 PM PDT by Morgana
As Jenny lay on the obstetrician’s examination table, she was grateful that the ultrasound tech had turned off the overhead screen. She didn’t want to see the two shadows floating inside her. Since making her decision, she had tried hard not to think about them, though she could often think of little else. She was 45 and pregnant after six years of fertility bills, ovulation injections, donor eggs and disappointment — and yet here she was, 14 weeks into her pregnancy, choosing to extinguish one of two healthy fetuses, almost as if having half an abortion. As the doctor inserted the needle into Jenny’s abdomen, aiming at one of the fetuses, Jenny tried not to flinch, caught between intense relief and intense guilt.
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I can’t read this. I am giving birth in two weeks. This disgusts me and makes me so very sad.
By the way, I do know of cases where a mother tries to “reduce” her unborn triplets and ends up losing all the babies.
I also know cases of docs EXHORTING a healthy pregnant woman to abort her baby because she “needs” some surgery like bone surgery on her leg, say. It’s really really sad — the woman would have been in some dull pain for the pregnancy — so what? To save the child’s life, that is nothing. I don’t understand this disrespect of the unborn. And I am in NO condition to try.
Imagine when the kid eventually finds out mom killed it’s twin.
The women in this story seem totally vile.
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Oh yeah ‘Jenny” good mothers choose a child to kill to benefit the others all the time. sarc
Evil witch
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I suppose it is theoretically possible to imagine a situation in which one twin must be sacrificed if both aren’t to die. In which case the decision would be entirely proper, though very sad.
But killing one twin for the convenience of the “parents?”
Disgusting.
Why won’t she give up the second for adoption?
Dear God.
I’m holding my two week old son, trying not to vomit. Imagine how her survivng baby will feel, growing up knowing that mom could just as easily offed him or her.
What's with the "almost"? And the "half"? She did abort, and it was a whole life.
If you go through six years of...crap...to get pregnant, and then you finally conceive twins, and then you abort one...well, I’m banging my head on the desk here.
No idea. Though no doubt a multiple pregnancy would be a good deal harder on a 40+ year old woman.
My wife was 35 when our second daughter was born. She was sick as a dog all day every day for nine months straight. She went thru hell but our little treasure was born absolutely perfect and the wife doesn’t regret a moment of her ordeal.
She would be appalled by this story. So much so that I’m not going to show it to her.
In my earlier piece I was of course referring to a medical emergency. There are, for example, certain obstetrical situations in which (if modern technology isn’t available at the birth) one of the babies must be sacrificed if both it and the other baby and the mother aren’t all three to die. Midwives in remote areas must be trained in this procedure. I’ll spare you the details.
That’s a tragedy, but it’s neither a crime nor a sin. Better one die than three.
I have 4 children, 2 of which are twins and I can tell you without a doubt that twins are MUCH easier to deal with than singles.
Twins always have someone to play with, to sleep with, to help and to learn from. Older and/or younger siblings are just not the same, because if they are older they aren’t much interested in the “baby” stuff anymore, and if they are younger then all they do is mess stuff up and ruin everything. But having a sibling their own age changes everything.
I tried to read all of it, but I started feeling like I was going vomit.
May God have mercy on her, but still, I would like to beat the crap out of her and her husband.
Post 17 was intended as a response to you. No idea how I wound up talking to myself.
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