Exactly!
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Good for these mothers!!! And may God bless them.
My wife was 40 when our last child was born, and the doctor wanted to perfor amniocentesis. We declined because there is a slight risk to the fetus involved, and we were going to welcome it whatever the resutls.
But why the pressure to terminate a less than perfect child? only a belief that Satan actually exists explains it satisfactorily to me.
“Testing” is FAR from accurate!
I worked with a couple who’s baby tested positive for Downs Syndrome.
The Father wanted to abort, the Mother refused.
The Baby was PERFECT!
Imagine what must go through that Father’s mind, every time he sees that beautiful young lady. (She’s an adult now)
Imagine the strain on that marriage.....!
That's called referring the case to a specialist.
I turned down the AFP test for my pregnancies and told them that there was no point because abortion wasn’t an option.
The nurse practioner who was evaluating me, looked me in the eye and said, “I wish more people felt that way”.
And that was the last I heard of it.
When Mrs SV was pregnant with our youngest a few years ago the doctors asked if we wanted the testing done. We refused but they went ahead and did it anyway.
Some of these OBs are obsessed with playing God.
If somehow, the evil that is Obamacare survives, I wonder if it will become completely coercive, when confronted by “black market” medical care, that is actually in the interest of the patient and doctor.
That is, requiring people to go to the government doctor at intervals, and to get blood tests to make sure they aren’t getting any “underground” medications or medical care. With, of course, civil or criminal penalties for concealing medical conditions from government doctors, or rejecting their prescribed course of treatment, including abortion and euthanasia.
This could be followed by stripping non-government doctors of their medical licenses, requiring membership of all health care workers in the government union, and nationalizing all hospitals, clinics and medical offices.
“The Tentative Pregnancy” by Barbara Katz Rothman is a very good book on this subject.
If we had been a little better informed beforehand, we would have refused even the AFP, since it's a screening test with notoriously ambiguous results (producing both falses positive and false negatives). Who needs a maximum dose of anxiety injected straight into the pregnant mother's mind and heart?
The problem with this, is if there is a problem for children with Down Syndrome, what other conditions make a child unfit to live? What’s next? I think that there’s the problem right there. People haven’t gotten over the kind of prejudice that send children who would today be considered simply mentally challenged, deaf, blind or dyslexic to a mental institution or the insane asylum, cut off from the world, only now they recommend killing them in the womb instead.
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