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To: FairOpinion

You know; where I work we've taken care of many babies who were brain damaged due to an in-utero accident which cut for blood supply to the brain, or due to a difficult birth.

Guess how they are treated? They get g-tubes; their parents are taught how to care for them, and they go home with a very poor prognosis. There never is an option to starve and dehydrate them since they will be such a burden to their families.

And the parents love them and give them GREAT care. Not easy, but life is not always predictable or "fair".


107 posted on 04/21/2005 7:31:01 PM PDT by DLfromthedesert
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To: DLfromthedesert
They get g-tubes; their parents are taught how to care for them, and they go home with a very poor prognosis. There never is an option to starve and dehydrate them since they will be such a burden to their families.

And the parents love them and give them GREAT care. Not easy, but life is not always predictable or "fair".

That would be my precious little Hannah Marie.

She only lived 7 months, but I wouldn't have traded one day of her life for anything.

113 posted on 04/21/2005 8:47:00 PM PDT by EternalVigilance ('Quality of life' is another name for the slippery slope into barbarism.)
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I just read the headline of another judge (in England) I think, ruling that a baby's feeding tube must be removed.

This is absolutely a horror for a mother. Give her the baby until she sees that it cannot live - never strip it from her arms. Let God handle it.

Why must man be so cruel to those that love those in their families?


115 posted on 04/21/2005 8:55:13 PM PDT by ClancyJ (Florida Motto: Send me your weak, frail, elderly - and we will give them 'rest'".)
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