Posted on 03/21/2005 5:14:06 PM PST by ambrose
I remember a case of a doc in W. Washington about 10 years ago who didn't think the baby he had just delivered was going to survive, so he just put his hand over its mouth & nose and waited until is suffocated. Some docs are more than willing to literally take matters into their own hands.
The slippery slope is Socialism. This mother had no means to pay the hospital. If a terminally ill baby is "entitled" to free medical care, then where does it end?
well it is a matter of choice which in Terri's case is disputed....I would want to leave but others feel differently.....don't know why some would want to live in that state, not that they would know.......
I think the most unselfish, loving act of all is to let a terminal loved one go with as much grace and dignity as possible.
"...[they] don't realize that [they] are asking us to kill something inside us-- our soul."
Of course we care. Do you?
I am always sarcastic--that's why I keep forgetting the (sarcasm) note.
I've got the soundtrack to Apocalypse Now on, Ride of the Valkyries, so I'm in a feisty mood. Gimme someone to fight! :D
BTW, if the parents could pay for the cost to keep the baby on life support, it is too bad they couldn't have moved him to a different state where there was no such law.
I totally agree......too many people suffer, not just the terminally ill one.....
That's the only possible reason he posted this week old story which has already been discussed to death already on FR.
Did hopeless in this case simply mean the little one would have to be on a respirator all his life, but other than that would be OK? Why couldn't the mother have arranged to do that at home? Was the sedatives so the baby would not yank off the respirator when not watched? So many unanswered questions.
And yes, this is the entrance to a slippery slope.
"Florida's Medicare is going to pay Teri's bills."
Her parents offered to pay. What more do you want from them? It's the willingness to pay that counts.
Not only that, I confess, I forced myself to stay away from the Schiavo threads until recently. In case, people hadn't noticed, we've been swamped with leftist problems.
This baby had been on a ventilator since birth, over 5 months ago. His condition was genetic and incurable. He had no prospect of life off the ventilator, and he would not get better.
This is not akin to starving and dehydrating someone who cannot feed themselves. No baby can feed himself, and it is never ok to fail to feed them.
He's doing it because of the endless Terri Schiavo threads. She needs her own forum, IMO.
I posted this article a few days ago with a picture
of the mother and infant.
There lies the explanation.
haha.....since you and I agree on most and I'm half sarcastic, well I understand.....you want to fight, hell post on any thread about Terri or McCain and oppose the prevailing postion.....LOL......you'll be playing Ride of the Valkyries at 78 speed.....not that any youngsters here would even know what that is.......LOL
This is how it had been for years to the current moment. If the baby was that dire a shape as their tone implies, it would have died anyhow in later infancy limiting the burden. There is lots of waste in government but this is scarcely the worst.
Comes to mind the 60,000 reichmarks "New People" poster.
"Ride of the Valkyries, so I'm in a feisty mood."
I understand that. I like the Valkyries too. That is one of the few things I agree with Hitler about. The holocaust? No not that. Just the music. I'm sure you'd agree, if limited to Jews at any rate. Unborn infants, I don't know where you'd stand.
FReegards....
Neither did that Superman guy
Unfortunately nobody seems to be listening or reading what you are saying. I saw an interview with the woman. You are right on in your assessment. My guess would be paranoid schizophrenia but I'm not a psychiatrist. She seemed the type that would keep a dead body dressed and washed in its crib for years claiming she was holding conversations with it.
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