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[froggy_dear]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4740721.stm

This article gives me the creeps... Reduces a (nearly dead) person to an incubator.

Comments

[ohsochewy.livejournal.com]

I feel terrible that this happened, but if they were able to keep the kid alive... I'm definitely pro-choice, but I'm a believer in the old "every child a wanted child" adage and I hope this little girl will be.

[froggy-dear.livejournal.com]

I agree, after some thought, but my reactions remained mixed. It's a moral issue that I don't want to tackle too thoroughly because I don't think I could find a solution I would like.

[coyotewoman.livejournal.com]

I dunno. I think if I was pregnant and knew I was going to be brain dead before the baby was born, I'd WANT them to keep my body alive long enough for the baby to be able to survive. What would oog me out would be if I wasn't pregnant before brain death and was impregnated after. That would be icky-squicky scary stuff.

But this is all hypothetical on my part because I took surgical steps to make sure I would not have a baby because of my health problems.

[cabell.livejournal.com]

Yeah, and according to this article, she was removed from life support after the birth. I admit, my initial reaction was similar to froggy_dear's, but she had only been in a coma since May; she'd been pregnant for four months before that. If I were her, I'd have wanted them to do what they could to bring the baby (a wanted child, as the above poster notes) to term. And when the baby was born, the husband didn't try to prolong her existence any longer.

[froggy-dear.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you found that article. The other one didn't address that. Had they gone on keeping her alive longer it would have been... Terry Schiavo-esque, to use the recent unpleasantness. But then again... none of it sits right with me.

It's not like I want them to not bring the fetus to term, but I feel uncomfortable with the whole sense of incubator I got from the article. I'm not good dealing with the what-ifs of situations that become true.

[froggy-dear.livejournal.com]

I do feel similarly, but I can't disregard my gut reactions to it. It's a hard situation to resolve myself with.

[mrcomfypants.livejournal.com]

So then, no developing axlotl tanks? Drat. There goes my next money-making/world-conquering scheme.