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Doctor dies to save her unborn daughter
News.com ^ | September 14, 2007

Posted on 09/14/2007 7:58:44 AM PDT by NYer

A MELBOURNE GP refused high-level chemotherapy, ultimately sacrificing her life to save her unborn daughter.

Family and friends farewelled Dr Ellice Hammond, 37, at a funeral service yesterday, the same day anti-solarium campaigner Clare Oliver succumbed to melanoma.

Dr Hammond lost her battle with Hodgkin's lymphoma on Sunday, three weeks after daughter Mia Ellice was born nine weeks prematurely at the Monash Medical Centre, where she remains in neonatal intensive care, The Herald Sun said today.

Dr Hammond was diagnosed in the 22nd week of pregnancy and refused high-level chemotherapy that could have saved her but might have killed Mia, whose induced birth took place on August 20.

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TOPICS: Australia/New Zealand; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: cultureoflife; moralabsolutes; prolife; rip
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To: ladyjane

I’ve been here a couple years and haven’t run into that—I’ll keep an eye open now though! Bygones.


61 posted on 09/14/2007 9:28:15 AM PDT by pillut48 (CJ in TX --Soccer Mom, Bible Thumper and Proud to be an American! WIN, FRED, WIN!!!)
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To: pillut48

I wasn’t attacking you. I just wanted to come to the defense of all the wonderful moms out there, including my mom. She was willing to give her life so my little sister, Heidi, could be born. Her doctor recommended an abortion. She refused.


62 posted on 09/14/2007 9:34:16 AM PDT by upsdriver (DUNCAN HUNTER FOR PRESIDENT!!!!)
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To: upsdriver

Bygones. Kudos to your mom for saving your sister’s life! :*)


63 posted on 09/14/2007 9:35:07 AM PDT by pillut48 (CJ in TX --Soccer Mom, Bible Thumper and Proud to be an American! WIN, FRED, WIN!!!)
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To: ladyjane

Indeed there are some great heroines in this country, and they rarely make the news. My dear friend T died of Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma. She was diagnosed while pregnant but had no treatment for it until they took her baby a month or so prematurely. It didn’t make the news, but most acts of great sacrifice and love do not.


64 posted on 09/14/2007 9:40:18 AM PDT by Marie2 (I used to be disgusted. . .now I try to be amused.)
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To: dellbabe68

“Wow, that’s a Mom.”

And American feminists are going “what a fool”.

God bless and accept the women into His arms....and bless that family.


65 posted on 09/14/2007 9:44:00 AM PDT by DesScorp
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To: pillut48

No problem, I share your frustration at the callous regard for life in this country. News stories like this one lifts me up and gives me hope.

Here’s a link to another great story. Maybe you remember it.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1832887/posts


66 posted on 09/14/2007 9:44:11 AM PDT by upsdriver (DUNCAN HUNTER FOR PRESIDENT!!!!)
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To: NYer
Reminds us of the story of Saint Gianna Molla.

"Be living witnesses of the greatness and beauty of Christianity." - Gianna Beretta Molla (1922-1962)

67 posted on 09/14/2007 9:45:38 AM PDT by A.A. Cunningham
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To: NYer

No greater love.....she puts many mothers completely to shame. Prayers for all of them


68 posted on 09/14/2007 9:45:41 AM PDT by TAdams8591 (Mitt Romney '08)
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To: NYer
HEROINE

Straight to Heaven. God bless her family.

69 posted on 09/14/2007 9:49:49 AM PDT by B-Chan (Catholic. Monarchist. Texan. Any questions?)
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To: RDTF

That’s the face of immortal happiness; know it, learn it, live it.


70 posted on 09/14/2007 10:09:08 AM PDT by Harrius Magnus (Pucker up Mo, and your dhimmi Leftist freaks, here comes your Jizya!)
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To: gridlock; driftdiver

Thanks for the help.

I wondered why Ms. Oliver was brought into this story at all, and I thought maybe “solariums” had something to do with the mother’s death of Hodgkin’s Disease. It seems not.


71 posted on 09/14/2007 10:31:59 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("My parrot thinks you're cute. I think so, too!")
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To: pillut48

Not to sidetrack anyone from a thread about a beautiful woman who gave her life for her child but to respond to your comment.
Over the years there have been many threads about getting brides from Russia and Asia because they are so much better than brides from the USA. Actually some freepers have founds their foreign wives through the internet and are very very happy. Others are just lonely guys who are angry at American women. LOL


72 posted on 09/14/2007 10:55:15 AM PDT by ladyjane
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To: A.A. Cunningham

Interesting. We have the same birthday (different years) and when I delivered my daughter (natural frank breech) I declined all pain medications. In another time we might have been friends! Thanks for the link.


73 posted on 09/14/2007 11:33:18 AM PDT by pillut48 (CJ in TX --Soccer Mom, Bible Thumper and Proud to be an American! WIN, FRED, WIN!!!)
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To: NYer
Family and friends farewelled Dr Ellice Hammond, 37, at a funeral service yesterday, the same day anti-solarium campaigner Clare Oliver succumbed to melanoma.

I think I am missing something. I read the article. Why was the bold information included in the story about this Mother? Had both women been in the news?

74 posted on 09/14/2007 12:04:30 PM PDT by mother22wife21 ( :)
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To: NYer

God says, “There is no greater sacrifice than to lay down one’s life for one’s friends”. She made the ultimate sacrifice for her child. I pray for the strength to do the same thing for my child when I become a mother if the situation arises. Prayers for her and her surviving husband and daughter.


75 posted on 09/14/2007 3:07:32 PM PDT by Pinkbell (Duncan Hunter 2008 - Protecting and Restoring America)
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To: pillut48

There are plenty of Australian women who would have had an abortion as well in the circumstances.


76 posted on 09/14/2007 3:41:47 PM PDT by naturalman1975 ("America was under attack. Australia was immediately there to help." - John Winston Howard)
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To: mother22wife21

Yes, they had been - Clare Oliver far more than the other woman, in fact.

Clare’s courageous fight against her melanoma was a major news story and very impressive, as were her attempts to warn other people of the dangers she believed existed, whether you accepted her thesis regarding the cause of her cancer or not.

And her death was a major news story - even the Prime Minister commented on it.


77 posted on 09/14/2007 3:49:02 PM PDT by naturalman1975 ("America was under attack. Australia was immediately there to help." - John Winston Howard)
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To: NYer

WHAT LOVE! WHAT STRENGTH! May God’s hand rest forever upon Mia and her daddy!


78 posted on 09/14/2007 10:15:37 PM PDT by MountainFlower (There but by the grace of God go I.)
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To: naturalman1975

Thank You very much. It makes sense now.


79 posted on 09/15/2007 1:01:40 AM PDT by mother22wife21 ( :)
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To: ladyjane
Sure, American women are bad, foreign women good. /s

Hell, just try to get American women on THIS forum to admit all abortions in this country are caused by women and your comment doesn't look nearly as sarcastic as you think it does.

80 posted on 09/15/2007 1:49:53 AM PDT by papertyger
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