So that baby with two faces died

[georgiajake2010]

What gets me is that the parents knew they wouldn't but went ahead with the pregnancy anyway

[buzzlightyearsgirlfriend]

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@georgiajake2010 wrote:
All babies that die are angels - regardless if it's miscarriages, ectopics, stillborns etc - that's not usually by prior knowledge (not in my circumstances anyway). But to know the baby had no chance anyway - that is CALLOUS

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Hey GJ

When the babies were unborn they were warm and safe and loved for as long as possible.

When the babies were born they were warm and safe and loved for as long as possible.

They were probably going to die anyway, maybe dying in their parents arms might have been kinder, more comforting and less painful than being aborted prior to birth?

[the_great_she_elephant]

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@georgiajake2010 wrote:
IMO - if you were told at an early scan that ONLY 35 babies have been born with two faces and that none of them survived past infancy - wouldn't every normal parent want to opt to not see it through? Well I think it was incredibly disgusting especially when they have all those other kids and living in houso. Money money money

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But you can only speak for yourselfand what you believe you would have done  - there is no way in the world you can know how anyone else might feel in that situation or dictate how anyone else ought to feel or behave.

You also have no proof whatsoever that they did it for money.

There is one possible aspect of this case that no-one seems to have considered. I don't know what religion those parents were. but there are some, old school Catholics (and possibly other fundamentalists) who believe - not in a vague, general way, but with absolute unshakable conviction -  that abortion is a mortal sin and that if you have one you will go to hell. and  that all  babies are born with the stain of original sin on their souls and if  they are aborted, stillborn or  diie unbaptised  they cannot not go to heaven - they go instead to a place called Limbo, where they will be perfectly happy in a purely natural sense but cannot enjoy a spiritual relationship with God. .This may seem to you an absurd belief, but I'm damned sure  if it was what I believed I would have do anything within my power to give my babies the chance to be baptised, regardless of what chance they had of living or what heartbreak it would cause me.

[freakiness]

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@buzzlightyearsgirlfriend wrote:

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@georgiajake2010 wrote:
All babies that die are angels - regardless if it's miscarriages, ectopics, stillborns etc - that's not usually by prior knowledge (not in my circumstances anyway). But to know the baby had no chance anyway - that is CALLOUS

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Hey GJ

When the babies were unborn they were warm and safe and loved for as long as possible.

When the babies were born they were warm and safe and loved for as long as possible.

They were probably going to die anyway, maybe dying in their parents arms might have been kinder, more comforting and less painful than being aborted prior to birth?

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It's very easy to judge from afar.

It's very different to live the experience that has only been shared by 35 other mothers.

I don't understand why they did not terminate but I was not faced with that sort of choice and have no idea what they were thinking or feeling.