Re: Bush -vs- Kerry....

From: Phyllis (phyllisnilsson_at_buckeye-express.com)
Date: 10/11/04 

Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 06:46:45 -0400

I had a grandson born with a condition that was lethal. They didn't
kill him, they allowed him to be born and die naturally. His mother got
to see him and mourn the natural death of her baby. She didn't have to
live with the knowlege that someone murdered him.

RaeMorrill wrote:
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> I presume that was directed at my referral to say a baby born with no kidneys.
>
> http://www.thefetus.net/page.php?id=540
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> The prognosis is "lethal." Now how does that make delivering it and trying to
> save it's life reasonable? Of course whenever money comes up in these topics,
> someone citing common sense is going to be called cold, callous, and unfeeling.
> Actually, it is simply realistic. Some conditions are simply incompatible with
> life. What about anencephalic infants? They have no chance to live more than a
> short time after birth and having no brain they would have no life even if they
> could continue to breathe.
>
> Now I've seen the position stated here parents should have the last word on
> treating their children, including refusing every-day, common, almost
> fool-proof treatments that will save a child's life. This isn't a fetus, but
> could be a child of an age to understand. How is it different for the parents
> of a fetus with a deformity incompatible with life to choose to end it any
> different? It isn't.
>
> By the way, I do resent that little ploy to portray someone who uses reasonable
> common sense when there is no hope as only thinking of $$$$ as hidiously
> deplorable.
>
> I wasn't talking about a frigging hare lip here.
>
> Rae Morrill in Maine
> "Ya can't get theyuh from heeah"
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