[Sherman Logan]

What a terrible and happy story!

Personally, I don’t find this a huge moral dilemma. The doctors were not trying to kill Rosie, they were trying to save both babies. Rosie was just in such bad shape she couldn’t survive apart from her sister.

It’s better to lose one life than two.

[Mrs. Don-o]

I agree with you. There was never an intent to kill one child; there was always reasonable (and sometimes heroic) effort to save both children. There cannot be moral wrong if there is no morally bad intent.

In ethical terms, the death if Rosie was a completely foreseen, but completely unintended, double effect. If they could have saved both, I am certain they would have done so. An in fact they kept trying to do so, within the limits of the possible.

[WVNan]

It’s better to lose one life than two.

It occurred to me when I read your comment. God the Father made that exact decision. One life for each of us.