Ah Barbara,
the problem with email is that it's not a 3 dimensional form of
communication. face value is very different when you are actually
face to face!
now I see what you're referring to... In the 6 years between the
birth of my daughter and the birth of my son ideas on healthy
pregnancy did a 180 and everyone felt entitled to tell you what you
needed to do even if you weren't doing anything bad in the first
place I was an older mom and read every book I could before
methodically trying to conceive and then methodically solving my
miscarriage issues. When I was pregnant with my son I went to the
clinic on the 18th day after conception and said to the doctor "skip
the pregnancy test cause I am, just test my progesterone levels and
see if it's okay" (I needed to supplement)
So as you can Imagine I got testy when people seemed to care more for
the unborn infant than me, I was better informed that most of the
advice givers and it was still my body.
Mindy the Artist
On Mar 27, 2009, at 3:56 PM, jharpe...@aol.com wrote:
Thanks for the clarification. Just taking the statement at face
value it sounded different.
Barbara H.
http://barbarah.wordpress.com/
In a message dated 3/27/2009 12:58:11 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
we4king...@verizon.net writes:
I'm not implying that at all. I just didn't go into that
definition for the sake of brevity. The light hearted comment
about turning 18 meant that every child takes a tremendous amount
of "life support" to raise. but if you insist on a definition: I
believe that any infant who is alive at the time of onset of labor
(whether natural or surgical) is entitled to what ever life support
we have to offer. In some cases like ancephaly there are hard
choices for parents to make. But I am sharing my views and not
writing a policy that will be used to make life and death decisions
beyond my own family.
Mindy the Artist
On Mar 27, 2009, at 9:03 AM, jharpe...@aol.com wrote:
Mindy, by that logic, a baby who needed life support at birth
would not be entitled to it. I've known many families of children
born prematurely who needed a great deal of help at first, but who
grew and thrived with help, including ventilators.
Barbara H.
http://barbarah.wordpress.com/
In a message dated 3/25/2009 8:27:24 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
we4king...@verizon.net writes:
My experience also led me to the conclusion that a life that
cannot survive outside the mother is not entitled to citizenship
rights equal to that of the mother until it is mature enough to
survive once the umbilical cord is cut (or has turned 18, which
ever comes first).
Mindy the Artist
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