Posted on 12/13/2005 7:49:21 AM PST by Rutles4Ever
Just an FYI, this is a classic case where the Catholic Church would NOT object to an abortion. I asked a Catholic Priest / Medical Ethesist (sic?) 'under what circumstances would the church permit an abortion'. This was the exact scenerio he gave, because you are saving the life of the mother, and removing the baby would save her life.
The church requires you to be moral, not a saint. What this woman did was saintly.
That was his response.
Amen!
Mother's life gift to unborn baby
Bernadette Mimura, 37, from Ingleby Barwick, was diagnosed with breast cancer one month into her pregnancy.
Doctors urged her to try life-saving drugs, but this would have meant terminating the pregnancy.
Ms Mimura refused the drugs and gave birth to her fit and healthy baby, but lived just long enough to see her son, Nathan, baptised.
She was a very positive person, always fill of life, always laughing Adam Taylor |
Ms Mimura's partner Adam Taylor, 33, said doctors urged her to try life-saving drugs, but she would not give up on her baby.
Instead, she was given a mild form of chemotherapy to suppress the illness while she carried Nathan.
He was born two months premature after her calcium levels shot up and doctors induced him.
Ms Mimura, who has three other young children, died just weeks later.
Mr Taylor told BBC News: "She was a very positive person, always full of life, always laughing.
"She was life, that's what she was."
The local community is now raising funds to help towards the cost of taking her body back to her native Philippines.
Adam Taylor with Nathan who was born fit and healthy
I never said it wasn't. Perhaps 'gladly' was a poor choice of words (and I can always count on someone at FR to point that out when it occurs). My point being...back in my day, when faced with such an option, a woman wouldn't think twice about sacrificing her life for that of her child. Here in 2005, we have millions of women who routinely put their own *sses ahead of their children, and think nothing of it. Thank you, feminism.
Her action ws, nonetheless, heroic, even though the child died. The way you put it, one thinks that you think she was derelict in her duties.
I agree. I have seen "partner" used many times in the British press as a catch all that can mean married or shacked up. Interesting that so many people here jumped to the conclusion that puts the woman in the poorest light.
As also the reading in of the word "divorce" where none was mentioned.
Not derelict in her duties at all, just a very tragic situation.
Abortion is a cure for cancer?
To quibble," tragedy" implies a fault in her. Just a very sad outcome.
The living with a partner out of wedlock, however, is another story...
IMO, this woman did NOT do the "right" thing. She has 3 other children who need their mother and yet she didn't care about that. She saved one more that isn't going to have a mother either. This isn't Saint like it is extremely selfish and taking the easy way out, I.E.: It is easier to die than to stay alive and raise the other 3. I am against abortion BTW, but sometimes it is necessary and this was one of those times.
She is guilty of deserting her other 3 children.
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...and you judge this woman not to have sufficiently repented? She gave what Christ himself gave.
It was on SpiritDaily.com.
Did I say that?
Abortion
142. Ethical delegitimization applies to all forms of direct abortion, since it is an intrinsically blameworthy act. The use of substances or means which impede the implantation of the fertilized embryo or which cause its premature detachment is also an act of abortion. A doctor who would knowingly prescribe or apply such substances or means would cooperate in the abortion.
If the abortion follows as a foreseen but not intended or willed but merely tolerated consequence of a therapeutic act essential for the mother's health, this is morally legitimate. The abortion in this case is the indirect result of an act which is not in itself abortive.[273]
273. CF Pius XII To "Face of the Family" and the "Associations of Large Families, Nov. 27, 1951, in AAS 43 (1951) p. 859.
Prayers for her family and Nathan.
This woman gives me hope for society even though she did somethings I don't agree with. She went against the me me me attitude of today. I think I would do the samething in her situation. It is easy to say you would but until you are in the situation...
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