Posted on 01/25/2006 12:22:59 PM PST by SirLinksalot
After several months in this forum, I have never posted a vanity post before and this will be my first time, but I am posting this to find out whether anyone can help me find some moral direction on a life choice dilemma which is not different from the Terry Schiavo case...
I have a friend in Texas who was taking high blood medicine not knowing she was pregnant.
Very early in the pregnancy they took tests and were told that their baby will practically have no brain but being devout christians, they decided to go thru anyway.
Last week their baby was born and as predicted, without a brain but somehow she's breathing and "alive".
Now the parents are having second thoughts and just waiting for her to stop breathing and die.
What would be the most moral thing to do in this situation ?
Thanks for your feedback.
What a positive thinker you! That's a good trait to have.
Someone is trolling....
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What was the "high blood medicine"?
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Medicine for high blood pressure.
Yes, I meant which one?
Agreeing with you, ExcursionGuy84. You are absolutely right.
"Fanatic" is an extremely pejorative word in this instance. If you believe that the life stirring about in its mothers belly is a real human being, then how can anyone have ho-hum, dispassionate feelings about abortion?
Chile, by the way, is the only country in the world where abortion is 100% illegal under all circumstances, including rape, incest, etc.
Yet Chile has the highest abortion rate in the world as well: 50 per 1000 women between 15-44 get an abortion!
The new government might provide a solution like Germany's, where abortion remains illegal but the women don't go to jail if they get counseled by pro-life groups in the first 90 days...instead of leaping over to the unconscionable Roe solution of Americans which is a cult of indiscriminant death to the unborn in that there is no responsibility for a woman to talk things over with *anybody* and no recognition of a 90 day (or any day) marker *by either side* in the debate.
Slow down and re-read. I pose that from a 3rd person perspective: what an abortionist thinks of anyone who believes life is sacred.
You know they think that of us.
Agreed.
How beautiful. Some of these responses are just beautiful.
God bless these caring and precious people here on FR.
God bless this family and their baby girl.
Night and day. Thank you for letting us know. It is very encouraging and also a good rhetorical tool for the pro-life cause.
What is the punishment and who is punished, when applied?
oops, my apologies.
The 'most moral' is obviously let the baby live until it dies naturally. Next question please.
Sounds to me as though the baby is anencephalac. If so, she has no chance to live for very long; best thing to do, seems to me, would be to disconnect the baby from the machines and just be there (holding, touching, singing, praying) for her until the end.
Prayers going up for these folks.
The decision is God's to make. He decided to let her be born alive, despite the immense odds against her. He can also decide to take her, but in His time, not theirs. If they are truly Christian, they can trust in Him.
To those that doubt SirLinksalot's veracity, I can at least attest to seeing him/her support a variety of conservative causes here on FR (publically), and also, many blood pressure medications can cause birth defects.
To answer the question in the original post, I would recommend letting life take its course. Euthanasia is taking human life, period. (That's NOT the same as taking someone off life support. That's a different issue, and really taking someone off life support is also letting life take its course. The ACTIVE killing of someone is murder though).
Let God decide when He wants His baby back. Until then, love her.
Terry was an adult not a child. An ex-spouse that has a new love interest is not anything like a set of loving parents. The attempt to equate these two events is strained.
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