Posted on 12/26/2014 5:33:07 PM PST by Morgana
Charles L. Bosk, a writer and researcher, spent time in a pediatric hospital where doctors and nurses took care of disabled and/or premature babies. Sometimes, when disabled babies were born (despite the program’s efforts to detect and abort them), the parents didn’t want them. Bosk wrote about a couple that chose not to treat their disabled baby with routine surgery, but instead allowed the child to die:
She [the woman who counseled the parents] reported that the parents had decided not only that they did not want to repair the child’s oomphalecele, but they wanted the child to die, and they were willing to do what they could to hurry that event along. The parents had left orders that the child not be fed. She reported that Berger [a doctor] was very upset with this turn of events… Berger claimed that it was one thing for the physicians and the parents to handle this, and quite another for the nurses who had to deal with the infant every day and would be the ones to watch it starve.
The mother was upset when the baby did not deteriorate quickly enough:
Bill [another doctor] reported that the mother was discouraged because today the baby looks good. She was hoping that it would die soon, so seeing it looked healthy really discouraged her.
Yes, this happened legally in the United States, and the practice is likely happening in neonatal care units across the country.
Tragically, there is little talk about the babies who are born and slowly starved to death. There is also little mention of children who are refused routine surgery that would have easily saved their lives. To my knowledge, there has been little documentation of these cases and no studies to show how often they occur.
This passage was written back in 1992. How many quiet murders of disabled babies have taken place since then?
Source: Charles L Bosk All God’s Mistakes: Genetic Counseling in a Pediatric Hospital (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1992) 77, 80.
Babies’ lives matter, too.
Book found on amazon.com
All God’s Mistakes: Genetic Counseling in a Pediatric Hospital
by Charles L. Bosk
Apparently not much. And this nation is going to pay for it one day before the Almighty.
Whatsoever you do unto the least of these, you do unto me. -God (in the aspect of Christ)
Exactly. And starvation is a painful and horrible way to die.
OK, I’ll go out on a limb and say Armageddon happens before Obama leaves DC for good.
From the article...
“This passage was written back in 1992. How many quiet murders of disabled babies have taken place since then? “
The book I posted in post 3 is dated – June 1, 1995, (newer edition)
Either way it begs the question how much has happened since then?
My cousin was born with her stomach outside.
She’s fine.
Judas folking priest, I had no idea, that is evil and if I was a nurse I would be calling social services.
Another good book: “Love Before First Sight” by Stephanie Randgaard. She told her story at a church where I visited. A must have for anyone you know who is going through a difficult pregnancy.
It takes a lot to make me sick.This story qualifies.
I have an original copy of this.....
Try starving a puppy or kitten in the country and you will be arrested for ani,al cruelty. If you wish to kill a child though the government will even help fund it for you. He’s making a list and checking it twice and I’m not talking about Santa. GOD will hear the cries of those children.
Should have titled “Murder In the Nursery.”
the names of parents that arranged for there kids to starve to death should be put on a web site along with what was wrong with them that made the parents decide to kill there kid.
Glad I am not married to, the elderly parent of, or the currently still living child of, that woman and couple. I feel so fortunate. You marry your same pathology.
when ever I have heard a interview of the people that have made a decision to euthanize a person that is severely disabled there has been a theme of how inconvenient the person is to the person that is making the decision.
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