“What is wrong with these women?”
Many babies with trisomy 13 and 18 die in the first year of life. Survivors all have severe cognitive impairment. There has been a debate among both professionals and parents about whether it is appropriate to provide life-sustaining interventions to babies with these serious conditions.
On one side of the debate are those who argue that there is no point in providing invasive, painful, and expensive procedures when the only outcomes are either early death or survival with severe cognitive impairment. Others suggest that, although mortality is high and cognitive impairment universal, babies with these conditions have an acceptable quality of life.
This is not an easy decision to make. Having a child that will have to go through those painful procedures to sustain a life that in most cases doesn’t rate anything over an acceptable quality of life.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28365826/
“...she can’t love the child for a few hours before it passes?”
By allowing it to live she may be torturing the child and doesn’t want to do that either. And there’s no way of telling that prior to birth. So maybe there is more pain in making the decision to end the life of a child in the womb as there is if the child suffers after birth.
But at least it has come down to medical reasons and not a blanket ruling by the feds for religious purposes or to garnish votes. So maybe the ousting of the misapplied Roe to get the federal government out of the medical business needs to apply to everyone except the parents and doctors and the pain it will cause both ways. Isn’t that why Roe was tossed and celebrated for getting it down to the level of the parents and medical teams?
I don’t fault people for having an opinion. But in the long run, it is just an opinion. And if it will alleviate pain in a child, doesn’t that measurement belong to the parents and how much pain they will suffer for the decision for the rest of their lives? So isn’t it one they should make?
wy69
She does not have to keep the baby if it lives! Tennessee has safe haven laws and thousands would adopt the kid.
No one is making these women keep a disabled child they can’t raise. We are just saying don’t kill them.