Posted on 02/27/2010 12:08:46 PM PST by wagglebee
Absolutely. Birth does not confer humanity. Conception does.
“Does a right to life include a right to demand public (or private insurance) resources to artificially sustain that life?”
You MAY have a point if the child wasn’t improving. Sometimes being on a vent for a while is medical TREATMENT and not just artifical sustaining of life. A family in our church is going through this right now. Their baby would have died without the vent but with the vent he continued to improve until they were able to take him off completely.
If someone is basically dead and the machines are artifically sustaining life it is one thing. If the machines are needed until the body can heal it is quite another.
What the doctor said didn’t make sense at first and it didn’t seem like he was on the babies side.
However, I did miss the *once born* part.
Excellent post!
Yeah that did need a little clarification. Maybe ghe could have said “Some people are dopes and think that if you have a disability or you aren’t born yet you don’t deserve to be called human”. That seems clear. :)
Thank you. I do try! :)
I've actually seen such things said by FReepers, especially when Terri was being murdered.
I wasn’t on here then but I have seen it since I joined. Unreal!
It was sickening.
I remember the Terri threads. People insisted on repeating the lie that she was on life support. She wasn’t. She was concious and breathing on her own. She was not brain dead. If she had been given the proper care and therapy that her evil husband denied her, she probably could have lived a long happy life.
Terri’s life expectancy was another thirty years. In the beginning her “husband” wanted her dead so he could have her money (and quite possibly to cover up a crime), later he was driven by pure hatred.
The idea that a husband who abandoned his wife and started a family with another woman was allowed to decide her fate was sickening.
Remember this little boy in our prayers, as a Canadian I detest our medical system, and would love to see it fall. This is another reason why.
God bless this little boy and his family and show the courts and doctors that miracles still happen.
We knew someone in a similar situation, only the baby didn’t make it.
But in the early days, just after the baby was born, the doctors wouldn’t commit to anything as far as what the baby’s chances were. They said that newborns are VERY resilient and can handle levels of oxygen deprivation that would kill anyone even a few weeks older.
They waited to see what was happening and did EVERYTHING they could to save her. She died in spite of it all.
They did everything they could to save her, and that’s what makes a big difference between people that love a child making decisions for them or some government employee doing it instead.
That little child is with God now, and one day they’ll be re-united.
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