‘At eight months, my doctor said he would ‘absolutely’ abort my disabled son’

LifeSiteNews/Live Action ^ | 3/16/12 | Kristi Burton Brown

[Mamzelle]

that’s “wrongful life”—oh, that we live in a country where there are such things as lawsuits for wrongful life. Perhaps the wrongful lives are being lived by the lawyers and plaintiffs.

[right way right]

Kind of riled up, aren't we?

[kanawa]

Just hysterics and histrionics

I only see one person exhibiting those on this thread.

[Mamzelle]

I'm not making up stories about "what a professional told my brother's friend's cousin" out of whole cloth. And I know a lot of pros who have to put up with social-setting grievances from jerks and weepin' wimmin who take out their resentments at what God has given them on the nearest medical personnel, and fantasizing them into villains.

Nothing makes a neurotic happier than having someone to blame.

It's just plain irresponsible of LiveAction. I'm surprised, because Lila Rose has better sense. All it would take is one angry doctor who is the subject of these keening and bleeting fictions to phone his lawyer. Then the martyred narcissists would find themselves in deposition trying to justify this attack.

LiveAction's cause is life.

[trisham]

I’m sorry that this story has upset you so.

[Mamzelle]

I accept your apology.

[trisham]

Thank you. :) These stories can be upsetting, I know.

[MD Expat in PA]

Yada yada. Third hand. How do you expect to promote pro-life by hysterical anti-doctor anecdotes? You could solve all these dreadful problems by going to a midwife or a curandero or something.

Yada yada yourself! You evidently have a reading comprehension problem if you read anything hysterical or anti-doctor in what I wrote. Third hand? Yea, I understand, I might be spinning a wild tale out of whole cloth but I have no reason to believe that my nice and her husband were lying about what the 1st doctor told them anymore than I am lying to you.

They did not resolve the problem by eschewing the medical profession or being “anti-doctor”, quite the contrary; they sought out a very highly trained, experienced and specialized medical professional and an advanced medical center equipped to deal with a high risk multiple birth. In fact at the delivery there were two other doctors assisting and a NICU nurse for each baby. My great nieces are alive and thriving today not because of rejecting modern medicine but because of it.

[maine-iac7]

You are doing the slandering - I was with that couple - I know what they went through - and you are calling them , me and everyone else liars.

I also know they are a very Christian couple and couldn’t lie if their life depended on it.

And they wouldn’t even speak ill of people like you =

I pity anyone who is obviously as up tight and carrying the weight of knowing it all on their shoulders, like you are.

I’d say have a nice life, but how could you do that? After all, wherever you go, there you are.

[right way right]

Heh! let’s poke it with a stick......

[Mamzelle]

Being carried away on the emotions that medical problems is something I have seen a lot of, myself. No good deed goes unpunished. And I don't know what Christianity has to do with it--it doesn't allow slander--I think there's even a commandment for that--

Immediately the conversation turns to how awfully dreadful and lacking in empathy and how cruel and unkind and downright immoral, incompetent and venal were the medical personnel who may or may *not* have behaved in a perfectly professional manner. In the throes of the dismay of dealing with a huge problem, it's so nice to have someone to paint as villain and so very sweet to play a victim.

If these doctors are so bad, why don't you file a complaint with the licensing board, rather than blacken his reputation under cover of anonymity?

Name his name. There really aren't that many OBs in the country. It'd be easy to figure out.

Shouldn't you be concerned with protecting the next poor victim of this terrible doctor?