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To: Hildy
So, she was just...disabled?

Should we starve and dehydrate children born with brain damage due to hypoxia?

Oxygen Shortage. ...if asphyxia severely lowers the supply of oxygen to the infant's brain for lengthy periods, the child may develop brain damage called hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy. A significant proportion of babies with this type of brain damage die, and others may develop cerebral palsy, which is then often accompanied by mental impairment and seizures.

296 posted on 02/03/2006 9:48:07 AM PST by syriacus (Congress: Get experts to discuss current standards of medical care for the sickest Americans.)
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To: syriacus
Should we kill babies born with hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy??
297 posted on 02/03/2006 10:02:47 AM PST by syriacus (Congress: Get experts to discuss current standards of medical care for the sickest Americans.)
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To: syriacus

Hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy sounds like what would happen if you applied a choke hold to the carotid arteries of a healthy 26-year-old woman. She would then "collapse" from "cardiac arrest" from "potassium deficiency" from "dietary imbalance" caused by excessive "bulimia," right?


303 posted on 02/03/2006 10:52:31 AM PST by T'wit (The Constitution may not be perfect but it sure beats what the government is using these days.)
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