NY Times Article: "A Place to Turn When a Newborn Is Fated to Die"

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A child is God’s greatest gift to us. And even a child that we can have with us only a short time is precious.
 
I was distrubed by something in this article. Both couples mentioned at the end of page 2 and page 3 were church going roman catholics who support abortion rights. It just seems werid that someone would support the right to end a child life but at the same choose not to end their own childs life. I applaud them for making the right choice and i hope more people make the choice to use this hospice program for babies.
 
In my eyes, these parents are heroes. I would like to think that in the same situation I would have the same strength, faith and love. It is easy for me to say that abortion should be outlawed in all circumstances but I have never walked in these parents shoes. I have never been faced with knowledge that the child I am carrying has a fatal condition. I have never had to experience my newborn in pain because of a condition.

I have never had to see my newborn pass away.

The one father states in the first paragraph of the third page that it is a gut wrenching decision. ‘Pro-choice’ might mean that he understands why parents may not go through with the pregnancy. He has walked the walk.
 
Who here hasn’t walked the walk? Every parent knows the sick feeling when a child is sick or injured. In my family, my brother was born with a harelip and a cleft palate – justification in some people’s eyes for abortion. My granddaughter was thought to have Down’s Syndrome before she was born – and my daughter rightly refused an amneocentisis, “because what can we do about it?”

If it is moral to kill a child because of the emotion a parent feels, then is it not just as moral to kill the elderly, to “spare” the family?
 
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Who here hasn’t walked the walk? Every parent knows the sick feeling when a child is sick or injured. In my family, my brother was born with a harelip and a cleft palate – justification in some people’s eyes for abortion. My granddaughter was thought to have Down’s Syndrome before she was born – and my daughter rightly refused an amneocentisis, “because what can we do about it?”

If it is moral to kill a child because of the emotion a parent feels, then is it not just as moral to kill the elderly, to “spare” the family?
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This is a very emotional subject and I am not willing to debate for abortion when that is not my position.

I will reiterate that I feel that I have not walked in these parents shoes and I have six children. Yes, a few have been seriously ill and hospitalized. But none had problems that were not curable. Along the same lines, I cannot honestly say that I understand what parents of children who have cancer go through. I have not been put in that position so I how can I possibly know what it feels like? I can imagine what it feels like but until I have walked in their shoes, I don’t feel that I have the right to comment on how they must feel.
 
MaryD7 said:
This is a very emotional subject and I am not willing to debate for abortion when that is not my position.

I will reiterate that I feel that I have not walked in these parents shoes and I have six children. Yes, a few have been seriously ill and hospitalized. But none had problems that were not curable. Along the same lines, I cannot honestly say that I understand what parents of children who have cancer go through. I have not been put in that position so I how can I possibly know what it feels like? I can imagine what it feels like but until I have walked in their shoes, I don’t feel that I have the right to comment on how they must feel.
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It’s a simple question. Does “what it feels like” justify the parents killing the child?

If so, when the parents are aged and sick, are the children justified in killing them, to avoid “what it feels like?”

As Kipling said, “Those who little children have give hostages to pain.”
 
MaryD7 said:
I will reiterate that I feel that I have not walked in these parents shoes and I have six children. Yes, a few have been seriously ill and hospitalized. But none had problems that were not curable. Along the same lines, I cannot honestly say that I understand what parents of children who have cancer go through. I have not been put in that position so I how can I possibly know what it feels like? I can imagine what it feels like but until I have walked in their shoes, I don’t feel that I have the right to comment on how they must feel.
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Precisely!! Boy, you hit that nail on the head. 👍
 
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