When my Mom was in a coma, they asked me as the oldest child to make that decision. I based it on not only my wishes for myself, but per her directive.
However if it was my own child, I would probably make the same decision. Parents make thousands of decisions on behalf of their children. This one, however horrible, would be another one of them. I would support my wife in aborting the (already dead) child, rather than further risk the life of my wife. It’s the only and best choice, however tragic.
If that were true, then the mother wouldn’t be kept on life support. Contrary to popular opinion, abortion is not the simple removal of a fetus, it’s killing the fetus. If the fetus is dead, it can be removed or delivered without an abortion. The articles written on this subject don’t include those level of detail. But. Suffice it to say, any doctor worth his salt could tell the difference.
This narrative that abortion bans have all the doctors scared and it ties their hands from doing anything involving a pregnant mother is false. But, that doesn’t make for a meme that gets internet points.
This narrative that abortion bans have all the doctors scared and it ties their hands from doing anything involving a pregnant mother is false.
Tell that to the women who have been left without proper care and the doctors that have fled the christian-nationalist states passing these laws. Get your right-wing nonsense out of here.
It does tie their hands though. They can’t practice modern medicine because the abortion laws aren’t written by educated medical professionals. It also puts their license, job, and entire life in jeopardy if after review they are found to have violated it. These laws are trying to make gray areas like this black and white. This mother died. Unfortunately that means the fetus does as well in the real world. Just because we can keep the mother on life support doesn’t mean we should. This fetus has a low chance of survival. She was 9 weeks pregnant. Abortion is any removal of a fetus regardless of living or dead. An ectopic pregnancy where the fetus will never live will be treated with an abortion. Otherwise the fallopian tube ruptured and the woman dies of internal bleeding painfully.
So, kill the kid, then?
Just because she’s a daughter doesn’t mean she’s a child, but yes when someone is braindead then pulling the plug is often the best choice
The kid I’m talking about is the one in the womb. Pull the plug on its mother and it has 0 chance. There are 2 lives at stake, not just 1.
The parents want her off life support. The fetus is a fetus. This directive is monstrous and you’re a monster for supporting it.
Problem is she was found brain dead in first trimester. That doesn’t make for good chances for the fetus.
If it was third trimester, then ok I can see it, but this is going to be even more tragic trying to make the fetus live.
She was 9 week pregnant when she died. This is the “kid” at that point: https://images.app.goo.gl/km8W6kjFyxhKcBkB6
If you meant the fetus why didn’t you just say so?
Also, not sure i would consider being braindead and kept “alive” by machines much of a life
You want to let a blind, crippled, orphaned fetus grow into a kid just so it can die after its brain is more developed?
The suffering is the point.
When my Mom was in a coma, they asked me as the oldest child to make that decision. I based it on not only my wishes for myself, but per her directive.
However if it was my own child, I would probably make the same decision. Parents make thousands of decisions on behalf of their children. This one, however horrible, would be another one of them. I would support my wife in aborting the (already dead) child, rather than further risk the life of my wife. It’s the only and best choice, however tragic.
It’s already deadI mis-read the title.
If that were true, then the mother wouldn’t be kept on life support. Contrary to popular opinion, abortion is not the simple removal of a fetus, it’s killing the fetus. If the fetus is dead, it can be removed or delivered without an abortion. The articles written on this subject don’t include those level of detail. But. Suffice it to say, any doctor worth his salt could tell the difference.
This narrative that abortion bans have all the doctors scared and it ties their hands from doing anything involving a pregnant mother is false. But, that doesn’t make for a meme that gets internet points.
Tell that to the women who have been left without proper care and the doctors that have fled the christian-nationalist states passing these laws. Get your right-wing nonsense out of here.
It does tie their hands though. They can’t practice modern medicine because the abortion laws aren’t written by educated medical professionals. It also puts their license, job, and entire life in jeopardy if after review they are found to have violated it. These laws are trying to make gray areas like this black and white. This mother died. Unfortunately that means the fetus does as well in the real world. Just because we can keep the mother on life support doesn’t mean we should. This fetus has a low chance of survival. She was 9 weeks pregnant. Abortion is any removal of a fetus regardless of living or dead. An ectopic pregnancy where the fetus will never live will be treated with an abortion. Otherwise the fallopian tube ruptured and the woman dies of internal bleeding painfully.
I mis-read the title, ignore my previous comment.
It isn’t.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/texas-woman-describes-ordeal-with-state-abortion-law-after-miscarriage
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