Originally Posted by
Darthtang AW
http:///forum/post/2723329
Here is an exmple from the woman that first strted pushing this bill.
"One night, a nursing co-worker was taking an aborted Down’s syndrome baby who was born alive to our Soiled Utility Room because his parents did not want to hold him, and she did not have time to hold him. I could not bear the thought of this suffering child dying alone in a Soiled Utility Room, so I cradled and rocked him for the 45 minutes that he lived. He was 21 to 22 weeks old, weighed about ½ pound, and was about 10 inches long. He was too weak to move very much, expending any energy he had trying to breathe. Toward the end, he was so quiet that I couldn’t tell if he was still alive unless I held him up to the light to see if his heart was still beating through his chest wall. After he was pronounced dead, we folded his little arms across his chest, wrapped him in a tiny shroud, and carried him to the hospital morgue where all of our dead patients are taken."
Now tell me this, the baby is .5 lbs, and still lived for 45 minutes. It even had down's syndrome. If it was given medical treatment, might it have lived? Might it gone on to have a life that other down's syndrome people have? You take people off life support they die in meer minutes. This baby was given no life support and still lived 45 minutes. How can a person NOT vote to give this baby a chance?
Rylan, please do not get sidetracked. This is a very critical issue as it shows a lack of human compassion.
How can a professed christian as Obama claims to be, stand by and allow a born alive baby to be allowed to die and given no chance to continue living?
there are 2 problems with your story and relating it with the bill.... the baby was born and not aborted.... Also, the period of gestation is far to advanced to have been a legal abortion... So this is a birth.... parents had the opportunity to hold the baby.
2nd... a baby that young 21-22 weeks would be rushed off for medical attention... I believe the record for premature birth is somewhere b/w 20 -22 weeks. This case is outside the realm of abortion ...