what's your point in sharing this? That all women should be willing to happily give up their own lives to purchase a 50% chance of survival for their fetus?
I am not one to fault a woman for her reproductive choices but let's look at the situation here; 2 children are now without a parent, and their father has lost his wife. If what she wanted most occurs, it will be 3 children without their mom, and him without her help raising them. She was willing to put them through all of this in exchange for the 50/50 gamble that the poor fetus could actually survive without her (at 14 weeks premature) and spend his first few months in an incubator and being at high risk for brain damage and other issues associated with early birth. My heart goes out to the family and I'm sure the intentions were all very good, but ... well, I am afraid that I don't agree that what she did was especially noble or good... but it was her choice, and I do support her right to make it.
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Date: 2010-07-12 08:52 am (UTC)I am not one to fault a woman for her reproductive choices but let's look at the situation here; 2 children are now without a parent, and their father has lost his wife. If what she wanted most occurs, it will be 3 children without their mom, and him without her help raising them. She was willing to put them through all of this in exchange for the 50/50 gamble that the poor fetus could actually survive without her (at 14 weeks premature) and spend his first few months in an incubator and being at high risk for brain damage and other issues associated with early birth. My heart goes out to the family and I'm sure the intentions were all very good, but ... well, I am afraid that I don't agree that what she did was especially noble or good... but it was her choice, and I do support her right to make it.