One month in. Mmm. That one, I'd have to think long and hard about.
Prayer from TX
Parenthood has no logical defined parameters.
What would I "not do" for my child?
Carolyn
Ironically, under Catholic Law, she could not abort or kill her child, but you are allowed to take Chemotherapy or radiation therapy for your cancer, even if you know the "unwanted side effect" would be that the child would spontaneously miscarry...
So she chose to take the chance and let her child live...
As a doctor, I would have pointed out this to her...and encouraged her to take the treatment...
Ironically, breast cancer in young women often metastasizes very early, and has a lower cure rate than in older women...so by refusing Chemo, I suspect she would have gained a couple years, but still died......the cancer grows quickly with hormones, but even faster during pregnancy...
And such cases are not that rare...
I had a patient with a fast growing sarcoma who chose to refuse radiation (a cancer also with a poor prognosis)...she was dying at 7 months, and hoping to live long enough for her child to die...and I've had two ladies with cervical cancer wait til after pregnancy to treat, and one whose cancer was more advanced who chose immediate radiation therapy for this, and the child died... the last mother cries about it to this day, but said she had three living children and chose to be with them...
Not all these people were "religious" either...