[Wuli]

The husband is as faithful as a saint, he is trying to manage respect for the moral dilemnas of TWO lives, not one.

He knows what his wifes expectations anticipated a different set if circumstances NOT the present one.

He also knows something from their relationship that she might have been in favor of in the present circumstance.

EVERYONE should leave it to him to restle with the choices his wife delegated to him NOT because she is “unequal” or subordinate, but because it her life not his that is at stake, but his authority BY her choice.

[erkelly]

How do you know he is a saint? Did the Lord give you some special divination powers? Is the Lord Himself significantly different than I have come to know Him first during many difficult years, and now a painful and fatal illness? Indeed, while the Holy Spirit has not endowed me with any special insight just the ordinary insights from having lived to the 70th decade of my life, I have known a few saints. In my experience, the Saint would rejoice that although he lost his beloved wife, the child born of their love lives!

[DuncanWaring]

Saints do not try to murder their unborn children.

[castlegreyskull]

So he is a saint for advocating the imminent death of “his” child? I guess..........

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

but because it her life not his that is at stake

Her life is not at stake. The baby's life is at stake.

This argument reminds me of what some cultures used to do. If the mother died before her child was weaned her child was buried with her.

Sorry but you don't get to kill the baby because the mother is not here anymore.