A medical miracle or gross negligence? A premature baby girl, born as a result of induced labor, was pronounced dead Monday at the Western Galilee Hospital in Nahariya, only to be discovered, by chance, as has having viable vital signs five hours later.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3584270,00.html

I hate to say it, but that early in the pregnancy, they're going to wish the baby had been dead. . .

you don't even want to think about what happens to kids like that. they're never right again.

I HATE it when that happens.

I find the above post quite offensive. Even parents of severely handicapped children do not "wish them dead."

However, it seems that the parents were trying to abort the fetus in this particular case:

thats because the parents are selfish and inconsiderate.

the child, would in all likelihood have rather died on the table.

the child, will be misserable, unhappy, and unable to live anything remotely resembling a normal life. it would be a postive if the child ended up a vegatable, incapable of realizing how limited and damaged they, in point of indesputible fact, are. if the child is not a vegetable, then the child has nothing but a life of dependance, inferiority, missery, and watching all of his/her siblings, and everyone else moving on to bigger and better things when they (in all likelihood) cannot even get past 4th grade!

arizona, this child has no future to speak of. this child will be misserable fro mthe time that they are born until the time that they die, if they are self aware enough to feel such an emotion as missery. if they're not a total vegatable.

I dont know until how far along abortions are legal in Israel so I clicked on the link hoping for more information. My impression from the article is that they where told her fetus had no pulse and therefore they scheduled the second-trimester termination procedure.

There are at least 2-3 recent, well-documented cases where the baby was born at about 20 weeks (and whom no one expected to live) and while they spent the first few months in the hospital, are now happy, thriving, chubby kids with everything going for them. Two I can think of happened in Britain in the last few years.

I'm trying to thing of something to say to you without cursing you out but I'm at loss for words. I agree with Arizona

and I'm having a hard time thinking of anything to say without cursing the both of you out for your irresponsible selfishness too, so its mutual.

but then on, I'm speaking as someone who nearly died in the process of being born, and for the vast majority of my life rather wish they'd given me up for dead, so I kinda sympathize with the kid rather than the parents, if thats such a crime.

That's a generalization. There are parents of even moderately handicapped children who feel their child's predicament is too harsh and it would have been better for the child never to have been born. Then there are parents of even severely handicapped children who adamantly reject any hint at wishing their child had never been born.

It's a typical medical "ethics" debate, with their usual Xtian undertones (for the pro-life side).

I hate to say this, but I think that reading this makes me wish that you.... Forget it. I won't go there. You've outdone yourself outspoken. That's a first!

Do you even realize what you are saying? Do you know how many children go on to lead normal productive lives? You sicken me.

I don't think at 20 weeks anyone survived. I think the earliest is at about 22 weeks. I know 22 week twins that are absolutely perfectly healthy, head to toe. Come and cry now outspoken.

Good, rather curse than write such &$^#&$%^*(@&#@^(* words.


The parents of moderately handicapped children feel that way because of the child, or because of their own capability of coping?

that I died on the table? yes, I do to. thank you, I'd be alot happier now if that had been the case!

Obviously because of the child. Believe it or not, not everyone feels that their child living in unbearable, excrutiating pain is in the child's best interest.

I don't think anyone needs to curse anyone else.
Everyone's entitled to his/her own opinion.
It sounds like Outspoken has a bit of a sensitive soul and can't bear the plight of such children. But it's really up to G-d Who created them and instilled in them a specific purpose. Not always are we to understand everything.
Also, not always are they miserable. Many severely mentally and physically handicapped people are smiling and happier with what they have than ordinary people like we are who have a lot more but are seldom satisfied.

It's hard to watch - I hear, but one never knows the outcome if he/she never tried to give it his/her best.
Such children may prove to have more of a life than you think.