"The resources required to keep this baby alive could have kept hundreds alive somewhere else. Choices are always tough when it comes to these issues. We live in a world of limited resources and rationing is a fact of life."
Explain how killing that baby saved hundreds....
I don't think they killed it, they just didn't do anything to keep it alive.
No one killed the baby. If the baby was born 10 years ago, it would have died naturally months ago. I've walked in these shoes and those of you throwing around the term "killed" and "murder" are unkind at best.
One of our twins lived 5 months after birth, but suffered a congenital pulmonary condition that was uncorrectable. We spent months looking for possible treatments. She was suffering greatly, heavily sedated, on a vent, and losing pulmonary function daily. She was also on powerful meds that forced her lungs to dilate and were causing long-term damage. Even 5 years earlier she would not have lived more than a few days. Advances in health care have made it possible, but leave parents and other guardians with very difficult choices.
We, and the doctors, did everything humanly possible, but there was no possibility of improvement or treatment. We withdrew the medications that were destroying her lungs, maintained her sedatives, and let her die a natural death as her pulmonary function decline while sedated. She died within 18 hours in her mother's arms. She was surrounded by the loving and caring doctors and nurses who had been with us for those 5 months. Not once did they urge us to DO anything to shorten her life.
At the time we let her go to God, we were sure that humans had done all that could be done for her. It was time for God to heal her and take her into his kingdom. If you haven't faced this situation, I'd tread lightly.