About that unborn baby, I learned from the grandmother that her daughter, the baby's mom, was being pressured to abort the child because chances for survival were so slim. Evidently, the doctors did not want to risk being sued for malpractice in the event that the child were to be born with multiple problems. The parents are standing firm on this, as you can read in the mom's write-up. Their greatest desire for this child now is for baptism. (Being "claimed for Christ"!)
As for me, I am marveling at where our lawsuit-happy society is taking medicine.
There are other pressures that may be pushing people to consider abortion who would never come to that decision on their own. A year or two ago, another woman I know became pregnant with her second child. And the insurance agent made a not-so-subtle remark that, according to their insurance plans, they hadn't been planning for a child that year.... There were no complications or anything, just that the insurance company didn't want the client to cost them anything. The wife exploded, "This is the kind of pressure that pushes women to have abortions!" They now have a healthy, happy daughter.
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Yes, this sort of social engineering is more prevalent than we like to admit.
A friend of mine has her daughter, son-in-law and three children living with them in a tiny house. The young family can't afford to find another place to live, what's worse, most rentals won't take them because they have THREE CHILDREN.
WOW this is so wrong to the family anf to the child itself!!!! I'm so happy that the paretns are staying strong on this matter!!!! It has to be hard for the mother sicne she has been carrying the baby for so long!!!!!
I can't tell you how many people tried to talk me into having an abortion when I was pregnant with Caleb -- for no reason other than the fact that I was 45. One woman told me that it wasn't right for me to impose my religion on my unborn child. (How insane is that -- thereore I should KILL him?) Of course, he is perfect and adorable, but we would have loved him just as much if he hadn't been. (My thinking at the time was, "We've raised three allegedly "normal" kids, why not do something different?")
Incredible. You mean you would dare impose your religion, your worldview, your highest convictions on your kid?
Have there been cases of insurance companies refusing to pay medical bills for women in at-risk pregnancies? I mean, do they dare (yet) put that kind of pressure on women not to bring a child to term? I can imagine that it is coming sooner or later, and wonder if there is some way for the Catholic health care system to prepare to do a lot more charity, get back to their roots.
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