--The greatest and saddest irony. God made that life with a plan for it that you men decide to extinguish.--
God's plan was for it to be born without the capability of being able to survive?
God did not make death, nor does he rejoice in the destruction of the living. Wisdom 1:13
If the baby can't survive, it dies: that's natural death, and it happens to us all. And death is not God's plan: the Bible identifies death as our enemy and God's enemy.
"Active euthanasia” should be considered for the overall good of families, to spare parents adult children with better things to do the emotional burden and financial stress of caring for desperately sick infants aging parents.
Among the many other objections to this, it should be noted that not so long ago (say, 150 years ago) MOST human diseases, disabilities, and handicaps were untreatable. There was no cure for tuberculosis, no vaccine for Polio, no dietary treatment for phenylketonuria, no regimen for diabetes: basically, other than food, water, and comfort care, no nothin' for nothin'...
It was the good-faith attempt to treat, ameliorate, heal, and cure that led to every bit of medical progress which we now enjoy.
Love these babies, hold them, attempt to nurture them as well as you can. If they are so severely premature and so desperately sick, they will perhaps die on their own: there is no ""need"" to kill them.
But if you try to sustain and strengthen them, you will gain continuous skill, experience, and knowledge about how to help tiny preemies. Every FReeper who has ever been sick or injured should realize that there will be no more cures for anyone if death-as-a-treatment is accepted in our legal and medical community.
>>>God's plan was for it to be born without the capability of being able to survive?
If that was the case, an abortion would not be necessary anyway...