[CurlyDave]

Before we work ourselves up into a lather here we might ask if we do know God’s will in cases like this.

For almost all of human history up to about 50-100 years ago the girl would have died shortly after birth with deformities that serious. Is that God’s will? Or is it that the child should be alive artificially after medical intervention?

Would the parents have gone on to have other children if this one did pass shortly after birth? What are those lives worth?

[little jeremiah]

Following your rationale, many reading this thread would not be alive if it were not for medical interventions that were not in use 50 or 100 or 500 years ago.

Should we all die, then? I’d have to be one that died, probably several times already. Many of us are “alive artificially after medical intervention”!!!!!

[wagglebee]

Before we work ourselves up into a lather here we might ask if we do know God’s will in cases like this.

For almost all of human history up to about 50-100 years ago the girl would have died shortly after birth with deformities that serious. Is that God’s will? Or is it that the child should be alive artificially after medical intervention?

Let's see, for almost all of history (until the last century or so), many of us would have died much earlier but for advances in modern medicine.

Do you or any member of your family take medicine for high blood pressure?

Any diabetics among you?

What about antibiotics, have you ever used them?

Has anyone you know ever had an appendicitis or any other surgery?

How about a heart attack? Anyone you know survive one of them? Bypass surgery?

I think you will find that just about all of us regularly benefit from medical advances that didn't exist a century ago.

Would the parents have gone on to have other children if this one did pass shortly after birth? What are those lives worth?

So, you would trade an ACTUAL LIFE for a hypothetical one?

[trisham]

Before we work ourselves up into a lather here we might ask if we do know God’s will in cases like this.

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Great idea. Do you think that God is pro-life?

[goodwithagun]

Wow. As I type this I am listening to my husband and three year old bath our four month old. Both of my kids were tongue tied at birth and could not nurse. It was physiologically impossible for them. One hundred years ago they would have died due to failure to thrive. Fortunately neither of my kids have had formula because my husband sees to it that I get time to pump. Modern medicine and modern inventions are wonderful things. Should I have let my babies starve to death because these things weren't available 100 years ago?

[surroundedbyblue]

That is the most relativistic & immature comment I’ve read in awhile.

Thanks for wasting my time. That was 30 seconds of my life I’ll never get back.

[momtothree]

What are you blathering about? God made man intelligent enough to discover new medical treatments for people born with disabilities. Medicine has evolved over time to help many people with illnesses they wouldn’t have survived years ago.

“Would the parents have gone on to have other children if this one did pass shortly after birth? What are those lives worth?”
What you really mean to say is would the parents have had “normal” children, right? The “normal” children deserved a chance at a life rather than the “disabled” one, right? The parents wouldn’t have aborted a “normal” child. So the true victims in this whole mess are the parents and the unborn “normal” children they didn’t have. Give me a break.

[DNA.2012]

To which murders of innocent pre-born babies would you willfully mis-apply the phrase “God’s will”?

[RoadGumby]

Really? I would say that Life is a gift from God. It is HIS to take, not ours. We should always accept that gift, regardless, and, if He decides to take it back, He will.

In All Things Let His Will Be Done.