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To: Calpernia
OK, try this. Forget the mother just for a second. Picture a baby that requires significant artifical support just to stay alive---and who is in a significant amount of pain due to that very support.

Now return to the mother, and ask yourself whether it might be just a wee bit selfish for her to insist that this child remain suffering due to the artificial intervention of the hospital.

If you're still not convinced, ask yourself what you would do if that baby were perfectly healthy, but the mother was causing him an equivalent amount of pain through physical abuse.

43 posted on 02/18/2005 4:14:21 PM PST by mcg1969
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To: mcg1969

Do you know that? Or are you going by the article?

Because I've seen a lot of misreporting of the information in Terri's case.

*If* you know that....ok. But it is VERY hard to separate the emotion from the logic. The mother only knows, I want my baby. And she is post pardum.

You can't expect her to think logically. She is hormonal and instinctive right now.


46 posted on 02/18/2005 4:17:13 PM PST by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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