Subj : Re: Nobody's ... script editor
To   : alt.tv.er
From : MauiJNP
Date : Fri Sep 30 2005 14:28:23

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.er

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> 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.

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