(May 28, 2014 at 4:48 pm)Cato Wrote:(May 28, 2014 at 4:36 pm)Heywood Wrote: What is there to talk about? I am not convinced the baby had to be killed to save the woman's life. You are convinced that it did.
You are missing something very basic here...
- the mother's life was in immediate jeopardy
- this required immediate termination of the pregnancy for her survival
- the fetus was not viable
To support your conclusion you must believe one of the following:
- The doctors were wrong in assessing the risk to the mother or the fetus' viability (an emotional conclusion and indefensible)
- It is appropriate to risk the mother's life to continue the pregnancy until fetal viability
We saw the result of this when an Indian woman died in Ireland last year because the Catholic authorities in a hospital waited too long to approve an abortion. One actual life wasted.
Dying to live, living to die.