Posted on 06/19/2008 4:40:50 PM PDT by wagglebee
The word "bioethics" is nothing more than a code word for determining who "deserves" life and who doesn't -- it is disgusting.
Pro-Life Ping
Canada Ping
Freepmail wagglebee to subscribe or unsubscribe from the moral absolutes ping list.
FreeRepublic moral absolutes keyword search
No, they DID NOT know the truth. They were lied to and they DID NOT give their consent for Annie to be euthanized.
This story just makes me sick! It hurts to read it.
Google it, it’s a genetic disorder and most babies die in infancy. I don’t know much more than that.
This is more on the story from two years ago when the Farlows were not willing to go public with their identities:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1669505/posts
don’t they have govt health care system?
would this be signs of what would be under hillary/obama care?
Hard cases make bad law, W.
As the father of a son born with Trisomy 21, I can almost appreciate how hard it was for these parents and I can guarantee that parents of healthy normal children have NO appreciation for what these people dealt with.
The medical profession doesn’t do well with these situations. I fired my son’s pediatrician in a screaming match in the hall on the neonatal ward when she told me we might consider an operation on his heart to save his life if he hadn’t been born with Down Syndrome. BTW, he is now a healthy 25 year old and the joy of my middle age.
When my brother was born in 1970 he was two and a half months premature and the doctors didn’t think he would survive. He was sick a lot up until the age of about five and my parents were always told that he was weak and that there was a good chance he wouldn’t live to be a teenager. By the time he was a senior in high school he was in the top ten in the nation for middle-distance track, he went through ROTC in college and made it through Ranger school in the Army. It’s amazing what people can do when they don’t accept the limits that others want to put on them.
I had a cousin who was born with severe heart and lung defects in 1983, he lived four days and died in his parents arms. They have told me that they wouldn’t trade those four days for anything in the world.
“I can’t believe that doctor could say some thing that mean to you.”
I don’t think she had any concept that what she said was anything other than a statement of plain fact. I am convinced she didn’t think she was being mean....She, on the other hand, KNEW I was was being mean by the time I was done with her in that hallway.
Trisomy is having three copies of a chromosome instead of the normal two. Trisomy 13 is three copies of chromosome 13.
Trisomy 21 is called Down’s Syndrome.
The presence of an extra copy of the chromosome messes up the normal expression of the genes on that chromosome through unknown mechanisms.
This has a natural cause. In the process of your body making sex cells (ovum or sperm) the chromosomes recombine (trade parts with their twin). Some times they mess up.
It already is happening here in the U.S., but the problem would be worse with "universal healthcare". :-(
Everything described in that final part of the story is exactly how things happened when my father was in the hospital: Doctors argued with us that he shouldn’t be treated. The alarms were shut off. And that happened here in the U.S. I believe it’s a common story.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.