Another Moral Dilemma :)

[PurpleDucky]

You're pregnant, you go in for an ultra sound and you find out your baby has anenphilia? It's the disease where the back part of their skull is missing. Would you choose to keep it and let it live it's short life? Or would you let the baby's organs harvest to help saves lives of other children?


PS- Jake, you aren't pregnant, your wife is . That goes for any of the other guys who post on this thread.

 

[::Snow_White::]

I wouldn't want to put my child through their short life like that.
I'd let it save lives of other children.
No matter how hard it would be I wouldn't want it to suffer.

 

[AngelInDisguise]

^ agreed

thats what I was going to put.

 

[TwistyMisty]

I wouldn't want to put my child through their short life like that.
I'd let it save lives of other children.
No matter how hard it would be I wouldn't want it to suffer.

Agreed.

 

[Sparx]

I'm not totally sure that a fetus's organs can be harvested, since they're not fully developed (if developed at all). But, that being said, I would donate all to science that I could (including stem cells).

 

[pigletgirl]

I would continue the pregnancy because you never know what the outcome would be, although an educated guess would be probably correct. Who knows. My parents friends had a baby boy with Trisomy 18, and he lived for 4.5 months....the MD's said he wouldn't come out of the hospital alive. So, anything is possible.

 

[imabrat]

^I agree.

But if for some reason the baby didn't make it to live too long,I would see if it would be possible to donate everything possible to science.

ETA: Just wanted to share my story. I know there is an age difference between me and an unborn child, but we are still someone's child. I can't imagine what it would be like if my parents would've just let me die because they found out I had cancer. Not that I would EVER think they would, but it's still the same concept. So yeah, just my thoughts.

 

[_Twinks&Spinks_]

I would continue the pregnancy because you never know what the outcome would be, although an educated guess would be probably correct.

I totally agree, doctors aren't the smartest people in the world. All they have is machines and crap like that. When my mom when in for an ultra sound and to check if I was devoloping normally, they told her that I would be deformed and my ribs would squish my lungs, since my bones and spine weren't exactly devolping like they should. My mom was actually considering abortion ..

But thanks to my Grandma, she didn't and waited to see what would happen...

And wouldn't you like to know that supposedly "deformed" baby went on to be the top of her gym and writing class. How's that for ya..

 

[AngelInDisguise]

ughhh now I changd my mind! lol

I would let the magic take its course

 

[XxCuriosityxX<3]

I agree with Kayla.

 

[Sparx]

I totally agree, doctors aren't the smartest people in the world. All they have is machines and crap like that. When my mom when in for an ultra sound and to check if I was devoloping normally, they told her that I would be deformed and my ribs would squish my lungs, since my bones and spine weren't exactly devolping like they should. My mom was actually considering abortion ..

But thanks to my Grandma, she didn't and waited to see what would happen...

And wouldn't you like to know that supposedly "deformed" baby went on to be the top of her gym and writing class. How's that for ya..

i'm just guessing that you were born more than ten years ago?

Technology has changed. Its a whole lot more accurate now.

 

[Babyjustrun]

I probably wouldn't go through and have the baby.
I'm not sure I want kids to begin with, for me and my husband to suffer emotionally over a kid we'd only know for so long...
I'd rather not get attached.

 

[Pirate Me]

^
As upsetting as it would be, I wouldn't want the child to live in pain for a short time until they would die, which would be even more upsetting.

 

[Babyjustrun]

I would continue the pregnancy because you never know what the outcome would be, although an educated guess would be probably correct. Who knows. My parents friends had a baby boy with Trisomy 18, and he lived for 4.5 months....the MD's said he wouldn't come out of the hospital alive. So, anything is possible.

I don't like children, I don't. But I know that if I decided to have my own child, I would become too attached to it. I'd love it with my life, and to just only have it for 4 and a half months would pain me too much. I would rather just try again for a healthy baby.

 

[JulielovesDisney]

I would probably harvest the organs, after many more tests that show that there's absolutely no chance of the baby being healthy.

I couldn't bare to make a child suffer through such a short life. And I would be selfish because I couldn't bare having a baby then having to say goodbye to it after a few months. That would kill me.

 

[PowerMonkey]

oh god... labor >_< ... :: gets woozy::


but i dont know.. im split.. i dont want to kill a baby, and like twinks said, there might be a possibility of it coming out perferctly normal... but on the flip side, i dont want to sit there and let a child live through a short and painful life.... well also get attached to it and then everything just gets more emotionally painful...

but luckily, im a guy, so thats not my decision to make... my wife will be the one in deciding that, because shes the one going through the pain.. itll be her decision and ill support her in no matter what she chooses.. i mean.. im not the one having the baby, so who am i to say if it should be aborted or not?

 

[PurpleDucky]

oh god... labor >_< ... :: gets woozy::


but i dont know.. im split.. i dont want to kill a baby, and like twinks said, there might be a possibility of it coming out perferctly normal... but on the flip side, i dont want to sit there and let a child live through a short and painful life.... well also get attached to it and then everything just gets more emotionally painful...

but luckily, im a guy, so thats not my decision to make... my wife will be the one in deciding that, because shes the one going through the pain.. itll be her decision and ill support her in no matter what she chooses.. i mean.. im not the one having the baby, so who am i to say if it should be aborted or not?

Reminds me of yesterday XDDD

You still have the choice, either way you helped create the baby. I guarentee you the wife will ask for your consent too, because that is a hard decision for somebody to make by themselves.

 

[PowerMonkey]

id ask her what side shes leaning to (even if its a little), and id just roll with that...


but if she goes through with it, you can bet ill be wearing an eye patch for each eye x_x

 

[PurpleDucky]

That'd be a bummer XD

 

[valeriesunshine]

I think all babies have the right to experience life. If the baby were to die, I would donate everything I could to science.