Posted on 03/02/2007 2:59:57 PM PST by wagglebee
Good post. Obviously there would be no life if men weren't involved. I believe both should take an equal role in parenthood and protecting the child. What I always think is horrible is that men are unable to say a word when a woman goes for an abortion. Whether the man wants the child or not, there is nothing that he is can do to stop her that is legal.
It gets difficult with extreme feminists. They look at the pregnancy as a defect, but I want them to see that the pregnancy but a wonderful gift that helps define womanhood.
This was my story...God blessed me an I am still here. I wish her family all God's love. She is in his hands now. My heart cries for her family.
I think you missed the whole point.
She allowed God to decide. She didn't try to "play God" and calculate how long her life was going to be or how she might be able to "manage" things on her own.
She left it in God's hands.
When I was very young my family visited my relatives for Christmas in Alabama. My aunt was about to deliver any day. The day came a couple days after Christmas. My parents and brother and I had gone for a drive that day around Mobile Bay. When we got back to my aunt's house that evening we were shocked to learn that she had died in childbirth that day.
It had come down to this: The doctors could save her, but at the cost of her baby's life. But she told them no, put the baby's life first.
It was such a sad time--but I was only 8 and it never hit me so hard until I became a parent myself.
The DUmmies seem to have a VERY DIFFERENT impression of this valiant woman's act of love:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x327075
The lady had cancer here, and she made a choice that's justifiable. She was the judge ... nobody else ... and may she rest in peace.
You're right a FEW were rational, most exhibited a disgusting level of selfishness.
Amen!
So maybe...just maybe...some members of DUmmie Land aren't *completely* narcissistic (or amoral).
Though I see your point about "extend," it's likely that the reporter used that term because a cure wasn't certain. I'd say, however, that it wouldn't have been a bone of contention with the docs if they were talking about a few months.
Wow...what faith. May God bless that family...what Jennifer did was pretty incredible, but it's going to be tough for the little ones to grow up motherless. My prayers are with them.
Darkened Hearts depraved minds.
Best not to go to that Demon posessed website.
Someone alerted me to it.
You are a heroine.
God bless them indeed.
This sounds all too much like the story of my brother-in-law's first wife. She was pregnant with their fourth child when she was diagnosed with cancer. She refused to abort the baby or have any treatment that would harm her little girl, hoping against hope to have one more child before giving up her own life. Sadly, the baby died two days before her mother did. My brother-in-law's faith and family enabled him to keep going and be a truly outstanding father to the three children he already had.
Wow!
These children that she left behind have an amazing mother. I can't imagine knowing that my life was soon going to end and that I would miss my children growing up. However, if I had cancer and was going to die before long anyway, I like to think that I would make a similar decision. What better gift to the existing children than another sibling to grow with. A this last child will always know how much his/her mother loved him.
It's sad that things like this have to happen. We all weep for their loss.
I cannot imagine how that must have been to endure.
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