Posted on 08/12/2017 7:04:50 PM PDT by marshmallow
These are truly the type of cases where the “life of the mother” is actually a medically legitimate reason for ending an unborn baby’s life.
Also, a practical reason, to preserve the mother for the sake of her five already born children.
But as for medical and practical: No one could say if the treatment would save the mother a couple years down the road anyway, or if she would be left able to raise her children.
But if the treatment spared the mother, and everyone could say this with certainty, would she be able to live with herself? She’d always cry over her baby and wonder what if. Inconsolable for all her days, most likely.
That’s a far worse sentence than death. Her choice is wise.
God bless her and heal her.
Amen!
To clarify, Catholic faith does NOT demand the option this mother is bravely choosing. The doctors are denying her treatment, which is unethical.
Of course, her Catholic Faith absolutely prohibits abortion.
But if the doctors are denying her treatment because she won’t kill her baby (which seems to be the case) then they are killers.
This mother sounds like the kind who would refuse the treatment of it endangered her baby, even though such treatment would be morally licit.
“But if the doctors are denying her treatment because she won’t kill her baby (which seems to be the case) then they are killers.”
The survival rate for her type cancer is 17%. The survival rate for her aborted baby is almost 0%, but the survival rate of babies at 28 weeks is over 90%.
If I had to chose between me living and my daughter living, she would win every time, even at .0001%.
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