[Responding to the claim that the poster can't know what she'd do if she were faced with the choice of aborting or dying as a result of continuing the pregnancy]
no, i havent been in that situation. my aunt died as a result of not aborting her child. my cousin is now healthy and a wonderful person. do you think for a second my aunt regrets giving up her life so that her child would have one? no, of course not. and neither would i.
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We are told that the aunt died as the result of the pregnancy. I wonder if the aunt knew she was at risk. If she knew, then she made her choice and accepted the risk. This represents the essence of pro-choice. On the other hand, if the aunt had no idea, then we don't know if she would have had an abortion or not. If this was the case, then your claim about her is baseless.
You assume that she doesn't regret it. Now, let's pretend for a second that there is some sort of after-life. How do you know that she's happy? Maybe she wants her son to be there instead of this shit-hole?
Very few people are capable of such an extreme expression of abstract love. I know that if my wife were pregnant, and carrying the child to term had a significant chance of the death of my wife, there would be no question: I would choose my wife. I love her more than any abstract concept of a "child." That may be selfish, but I'm comfortable with that. I would not condemn my wofe to death merely to pass on my genetic material."Shaivo Syndrome"
The longer a thread concerning the morality of a medical decision continues, the closer the odds of someone mentioning Teri Shaivo gets to 100%."
Was your Aunt ever given the option? That is, did a doctor ever say, this pregnancy will kill you if you don't abort? I would have to know what your aunt died of to know if she actually could have been "saved" by an abortion.
"my aunt died as a result of not aborting her child."How sad. I'm sorry for your loss.
"my cousin is now healthy and a wonderful person."
Great.
"do you think for a second my aunt regrets giving up her life so that her child would have one?"
Nope. I don't think your aunt does anything at all... she's dead.
Whether or not your aunt would have willingly died for the chance her fetus would survive is not really the pertinent point. I support her right to die trying to have a baby and I support the right of others to have an abortion.
"no, of course not. and neither would i."
Bully for you. As long as you are an adult, I support YOUR right to die trying to have a baby, too.
As long as she's not implying or demanding that all women should risk death for their unborn fetus, I have no issue... she's more than welcome to choose to take the risk in my book. It is, after all, her life and her body.
putting aside for a moment the obvious points about choice, I'd like to bring up a religious point, if this person is indeed a fundy.
Good one, TDR. You should present this little paradox then step back and watch the smoke coming out of their ears ^^
Of course she doesn't regret it, she's fucking dead. Dead people can't regret things, they can just decompose and get eaten by worms (and sometimes claw themselves out of their grave and feast on the brains of the living).
I agree that she doesn't regret it
Mostly because dead people don't regret things, being entirely too dead to worry about that
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