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Judge Orders Pregnant Texas Woman Off Life Support
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<blockquote data-quote="katautumn" data-source="post: 64920139" data-attributes="member: 376714"><p>I'm of the opinion that if a woman is technically dead before the stage where the baby could survive outside the womb then the hospital should never make the call to keep her body artificially alive just to act as a host. For starters, when a woman's body isn't functioning normally, it is a detriment to the health of the unborn baby. </p><p></p><p>Second, nobody knows how long she was pretty much dead before she was resuscitated. My grandmother had a friend who lost oxygen for a minute and a half while giving birth and that baby was born with such significant problems she was nearly a vegetable her whole life. She passed away at the age of forty-two and by that time she needed oxygen and a feeding tube. She was never able to speak, she was blind, she couldn't even walk or use her hands to hold things. And that was after a minute and a half without the mother breathing, let alone being clinically dead. </p><p></p><p>Furthermore, this has put a tremendous financial burden on the husband. I'm assuming he's been saddled with this astronomical hospital bill to keep his wife on life support. And now he'll have to pay for a funeral. I'm just really disappointed in the pro-life response to this. I'm pro-life, even in cases of rape or birth defects, but this is one situation where the baby would not have lived and, if the baby had, there would be literally no quality of life. It's not like a situation where a child will have Down Syndrome or Cerebral Palsy. We're talking about a woman's body being kept alive to act as a host so the doctors could cut a baby from her womb that would likely live a mere seconds after the birth. It's like something from a horrible science fiction novel. </p><p></p><p>I've read comments on this news story and many pro-life people have said things like, "I hope they all [the wife, family, doctors, judges] burn in hell" and, "I hope her husband dies alone since he murdered his own baby". What a disconnect from reality.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="katautumn, post: 64920139, member: 376714"] I'm of the opinion that if a woman is technically dead before the stage where the baby could survive outside the womb then the hospital should never make the call to keep her body artificially alive just to act as a host. For starters, when a woman's body isn't functioning normally, it is a detriment to the health of the unborn baby. Second, nobody knows how long she was pretty much dead before she was resuscitated. My grandmother had a friend who lost oxygen for a minute and a half while giving birth and that baby was born with such significant problems she was nearly a vegetable her whole life. She passed away at the age of forty-two and by that time she needed oxygen and a feeding tube. She was never able to speak, she was blind, she couldn't even walk or use her hands to hold things. And that was after a minute and a half without the mother breathing, let alone being clinically dead. Furthermore, this has put a tremendous financial burden on the husband. I'm assuming he's been saddled with this astronomical hospital bill to keep his wife on life support. And now he'll have to pay for a funeral. I'm just really disappointed in the pro-life response to this. I'm pro-life, even in cases of rape or birth defects, but this is one situation where the baby would not have lived and, if the baby had, there would be literally no quality of life. It's not like a situation where a child will have Down Syndrome or Cerebral Palsy. We're talking about a woman's body being kept alive to act as a host so the doctors could cut a baby from her womb that would likely live a mere seconds after the birth. It's like something from a horrible science fiction novel. I've read comments on this news story and many pro-life people have said things like, "I hope they all [the wife, family, doctors, judges] burn in hell" and, "I hope her husband dies alone since he murdered his own baby". What a disconnect from reality. [/QUOTE]
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