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Money aside, keeping an infant like this alive is draining healthcare resources that could be better used on a baby who is likely to survive and have a meaningful life. Resources like ICU's and the highly knowledgeable people that staff them are not limitless.
Too bad they can't put everyone who is against stopping life support in a hospital bed and hook them up to a ventilator for a week. Give them a whole week to imagine living their whole life like that with NO HOPE of ever getting out of that bed.
This little girl is NEVER going to get better and her mother is in denial.....and those who encourage that denial, giving her false hope, are despicable.
Just because someone can be kept alive doesn't mean it is ethical to keep that person alive.
My cousin was advised to have an abortion when her fetus was diagnosed with microcephaly. She spoke to her Priest and on his advise declined the abortion. When the baby was born the doctor suggested that they not put him on life support but just keep him comfortable, my cousin refused. They kept him on life support for several months then released him on oxygen with a feeding tube. He lived for four years, she spent that time caring for him day and night. He was blind and deaf but screamed in agony. He had grand mal seizures at least once a day. When he passed away my cousin became very depressed, she blamed herself for his suffering and regretted not having the abortion and then not following the doctors advice after he was born and just keeping him comfortable until he passed. That was 35 years ago and she says she still wakes up at night thinking she hears the baby screaming.
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Money aside, keeping an infant like this alive is draining healthcare resources that could be better used on a baby who is likely to survive and have a meaningful life. Resources like ICU's and the highly knowledgeable people that staff them are not limitless.
I'm very uncomfortable with your statement.
This baby IS surviving. And, I'm not sure I want to decide who has a "meaningful life", besides the person who is living it.
My cousin was advised to have an abortion when her fetus was diagnosed with microcephaly. She spoke to her Priest and on his advise declined the abortion. When the baby was born the doctor suggested that they not put him on life support but just keep him comfortable, my cousin refused. They kept him on life support for several months then released him on oxygen with a feeding tube. He lived for four years, she spent that time caring for him day and night. He was blind and deaf but screamed in agony. He had grand mal seizures at least once a day. When he passed away my cousin became very depressed, she blamed herself for his suffering and regretted not having the abortion and then not following the doctors advice after he was born and just keeping him comfortable until he passed. That was 35 years ago and she says she still wakes up at night thinking she hears the baby screaming.
That is a heartbreaking story. It affirms my belief that just because the technology exists to keep someone alive, it may not be morally better to do so. Shame on that priest whose advice caused that little one to suffer for four years. And shame on anyone else who would say we have no right to determine how much "quality of life" is enough. I refuse to believe anyone would prefer a lifetime of agony, along with being blind and deaf, over never being born.
It's the hospital's child? Wow; what luck! Bet they want more just like her! (gag)
wow!...that's nasty...mean thing to say..why would you say "bet they want more just like her"?
have you no compassion?..do you think it's lucky to care for a child who they watch every day suffering..that nurses and doctors enjoy that??...that's what you imply..
They haven't found another hospital because the other hospitals that have been approached have said there is nothing additional that they can do for this child. How are the parents going to take the child home? Are they going to replicate an ICU in their home and become qualified to manage a ventilator?
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