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To: Dont Mention the War; SoothingDave
If Terri Schiavo had been raped and impregnated in the hospice, and the only way to save the baby was to pull the feeding tube, who should have been saved?

Pull the feeding tube. If the child can be saved, the child must be saved in order to be baptized even at the cost of the mother's life. One of the risks of life as a woman is that you may die from pregnancy. Unfortunately, very few people are able to think rationally about this topic, and it is generally used to create specious justifications of direct murder of the child in order to prevent women from succumbing to one of the risks of their nature.

Really, its a simple question. Would you rather be responsible morally for the direct murder of a child (possibly your own), or the unintended but inevitable death or a mother (possibly your wife) from a natural medical condition? The answer to that sort of question, and the justifications attempted, says much about a person's character, IMHO.

(Not that I agree with the whole feeding tube thing anyway, but that is another story ...)

505 posted on 05/06/2005 5:05:46 AM PDT by Hermann the Cherusker
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To: Hermann the Cherusker
If the child can be saved, the child must be saved in order to be baptized even at the cost of the mother's life.

If the child is going to die anyway, killing the mother off just so that the child can be baptized would be a monstrously despicable act.

Really, its a simple question. Would you rather be responsible morally for the direct murder of a child (possibly your own), or the unintended but inevitable death or a mother (possibly your wife) from a natural medical condition?

I'd rather save my wife, if the choice is between her and a fetus.

543 posted on 05/06/2005 7:19:57 AM PDT by Modernman ("Work is the curse of the drinking classes." -Oscar Wilde)
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