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Is she responsible?
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What do you people think about it?
Is she responsible?
cosmetics is a poor basis for making a life and death decision :/
thats all i can say
cosmetics is a poor basis for making a life and death decision :/
thats all i can say
chenchow
13-03-2004, 11:33 AM
I would think that the mother's choice and health comes first. That's my personal viewpoint.
chenchow
13-03-2004, 11:33 AM
I would think that the mother's choice and health comes first. That's my personal viewpoint.
silverblue
13-03-2004, 02:55 PM
Personally, I think that the mother has the right to choose how she wants to deliver her baby...
[Quote]"We are unable to find any reason other than the cosmetic motivations by the mother" for her decision, Morgan said. [Quote]
Morally, of course I feel that her decision was inimical, ill-considered and vanity-blinded, given that the statement above is true. But who are we to say what that this was wrong and unethically just because she was afraid of being scarred? Maybe she'll suffer from depression for the rest of her life living with that deep and long scar.... maybe she did struggle or have a tough time making this decision too.
Had she had medical complications upon doing the C-section, would she had gotten the same responses and frowns? Would you then say that she was less guilty of committing a murder? Talking about murder, I don't see how this can be qualified as murder... she didn't like physically kill her baby did she? Afterall, it was natural birth... and assuming that we didn't have ultra-sound or Caesarean section and the docs couldn't foresee the death of the baby, the baby would have died anyway...
So, I'd say it was more of a bad choice...
silverblue
13-03-2004, 02:55 PM
Personally, I think that the mother has the right to choose how she wants to deliver her baby...
[Quote]"We are unable to find any reason other than the cosmetic motivations by the mother" for her decision, Morgan said. [Quote]
Morally, of course I feel that her decision was inimical, ill-considered and vanity-blinded, given that the statement above is true. But who are we to say what that this was wrong and unethically just because she was afraid of being scarred? Maybe she'll suffer from depression for the rest of her life living with that deep and long scar.... maybe she did struggle or have a tough time making this decision too.
Had she had medical complications upon doing the C-section, would she had gotten the same responses and frowns? Would you then say that she was less guilty of committing a murder? Talking about murder, I don't see how this can be qualified as murder... she didn't like physically kill her baby did she? Afterall, it was natural birth... and assuming that we didn't have ultra-sound or Caesarean section and the docs couldn't foresee the death of the baby, the baby would have died anyway...
So, I'd say it was more of a bad choice...
Thirdshifter
13-03-2004, 03:23 PM
Another case which will be thrown right out of the court.
Thirdshifter
13-03-2004, 03:23 PM
Another case which will be thrown right out of the court.
assuming that we didn't have ultra-sound or Caesarean section and the docs couldn't foresee the death of the baby, the baby would have died anyway
but we do have those things. those are the advantages of 21st century medicine. having the facts that something is possibly harmful and not acting on it is negligence. if it was a sick child and if i were to ignore it just because i dont want the kid to puke in the car and the kid died, do you think i'd ever hear the end of it? it's the same thing here, the fact that the kid is inside or outside the mother's body should not matter.
at the very least, she should get what parents who leave their children in their cars while they go shopping, and the kids suffocate, gets.
assuming that we didn't have ultra-sound or Caesarean section and the docs couldn't foresee the death of the baby, the baby would have died anyway
but we do have those things. those are the advantages of 21st century medicine. having the facts that something is possibly harmful and not acting on it is negligence. if it was a sick child and if i were to ignore it just because i dont want the kid to puke in the car and the kid died, do you think i'd ever hear the end of it? it's the same thing here, the fact that the kid is inside or outside the mother's body should not matter.
at the very least, she should get what parents who leave their children in their cars while they go shopping, and the kids suffocate, gets.
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