These situations often involve a choice between abortion now, or losing BOTH the mother and the baby later. No hospital that receives one penny in federal funds should be telling a woman they won’t do what has to be done to save her life, and especially when the baby would very likely end up dying anyway. Medical decisions need to be made by medical professionals. This was obviously not an elective abortion.
There is a difference between delivering the baby when the mothers life is at stake and aborting the baby. If the baby has to come out, for the mother to live, he has to come out. But when the baby is near viability, he deserves not to be killed during delivery or left to die in a back room. I know a young mom who recently turned eclamsic and had to have her twins delivered very, very early. When doctors need to do this to save the mom, they do it. One baby weighed about 2 lbs and the other was a little under 2 lbs. Both are fine now and so is Mom. They are all home.
Yes, I am intimately aware of what these decisions involve. There is no abortion that is not elective.
Was there really no other way? Impossible to tell from this story. Too often, it seems that once the issue is deemed " to save the life of the mother" no further effort is made to save the child. Only if we make the decision first that abortion is wrong no matter what, will every means necessary be used to save both mother and child.
This was the first trimester....11 weeks; if the mother died, the baby could not be saved. This is nonsense; her remaining children would be left without a mother.
You’re right. It’s easy to condemn when you know not what you’re talking about.
Every single subject of one of Dr. Mengele’s experiments would have “very likely” ended up dying anyway; and, after all he was a medical professional.