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Originally Posted by Stephen Hoover
Again, there are a good percentage of doctors that do not believe there ever is such a decision to be made.
We are ALL nothing more than DNA mass.
Personally, I could not make the choice to throw Grandpa overboard because he is in a wheelchair and percieved to be of lessor value than Grandma.
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There has been a number of scenarios proposed on this question of choosing between the mother and the child. I don't know of a full term child that has to be aborted to save the mother, is that even possible with the availability of a C-section? I know women use to die in child birth but I think that with a C-section the likelihood of that today is minimal.
However, if there was a legitimate choice to be made, such as a tubal pregnancy or any other situation where that might be the case I think the mother’s life is the obvious choice. People are forced to make choices about who’s life to save, it’s harsh but true. A fireman with enough time to save only a child on one side of the house, or the mother on the other is choosing to let one of them die. I realize this is not a perfect analogy because he is not doing anything to kill one of them but he is making a choice.
What movie was it where the father the son and daughter are dangling from a rope and it won't hold the weight of all three so the father tells the son to cut him lose? Even though the son couldn't do it, would it have been wrong to save his and his sisters life by effectively killing his father? Or should they all perish?
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