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To: Irish Rose

Why would anyone perform a C-section on a 3 month pregnancy where the child has no chance at survival? I'm asking honestly. I've never had children and never been pregnant so I'm ignorant about that and confused.


892 posted on 03/11/2005 9:32:24 PM PST by Peach (The Clintons pardoned more terrorists than they ever captured or killed.)
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To: Peach

I can't imagine they would. The baby is small enough to pass easily. If they could not induce labor that early, perhaps. Pitocin doesn't always work, but a c-section is major surgery, best to be avoided, if possible.


899 posted on 03/11/2005 9:35:01 PM PST by pa mom
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To: Peach

Truth be told, Peach, I don't know enough to answer that question effectively. But if you're going to perform surgery on the mother (and abortion is a surgical procedure) you should perform the procedure that would give the child a chance at living, instead of the one that outright kills him. Personally, if I were in such a position, I'd have the C-section instead of the abortion. A C-section would give a chance for a miracle - the barest chance, maybe, but still a chance. I'm with Winston Churchill, "While there's life, there's hope."


919 posted on 03/11/2005 9:40:18 PM PST by Irish Rose (Some people march to the beat of a different drummer. And some people tango!)
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