Subj : Re: Nobody's ... script editor
To   : alt.tv.er
From : KL
Date : Fri Sep 30 2005 21:42:46

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.er

on 9/30/2005 12:28 PM MauiJNP said the following:
>>But here we get into that messy area.  Is she the mother?  She carried the 
>>baby to term, but it was the couples sperm and egg that were involved. 
>>Was she nothing more than a paid for incubator??  Would she have rights as 
>>a mother if everything had been normal?  Would she have visitation rights, 
>>etc?  No.  Did she have the right to say no to the C-Section?  That is 
>>kinda iffy.  I mean it IS her body it is happening to.  But there 
>>definitely should have been an arrangement in place from the beginning 
>>that if necessary she would have a C-section.  But apparently there 
>>wasn't, so she got to decide when it came time.  She has no responsibility 
>>to that child.  She wouldn't if things went fine, and she doesn't now that 
>>things didn't work out.  You can't have it both ways.
>>
> 
> 
> 
> The moment she decided to not do the c-section, she was making the choice 
> for that baby's future.  If she agreed to the c-section and the boy turned 
> out the same way, then I would say NO she doesn't owe it to the family or 
> the baby to stick around.  BUT that is not the case.  She made the decision 
> to risk the health of that baby so she is responsible to deal with the 
> consequences.  Its not the biological parents fault that the baby is not 
> healthy  If they would have be allowed to make the decision about having a 
> c-section or not, the baby would probably have been ok.  Why should the 
> biological parents be responsible for the baby now?  they weren't allowed to 
> be responsible for him in utero, so why do they have to now?  you can't have 
> it both ways either. 
> 
> 
Right, but do the rights of the baby, or it's parents usurp the rights 
of the woman carrying the baby to term?  Again, iffy ground.

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KL

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