Pregnant Teen Denied Both Chemo and Abortion Dies

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(CNN) – The mother of a pregnant leukemia patient who died after her chemotherapy was delayed over anti- abortion laws is accusing doctors of not putting her daughter’s health first.

The 16-year-old’s plight attracted worldwide attention after she had to wait for chemotherapy because of an abortion ban in the Dominican Republic.

Doctors were hesitant to give her chemotherapy because such treatment could terminate the pregnancy – a violation of the Dominican Constitution, which bans abortion. Some 20 days after she was admitted to the hospital, she finally started receiving treatment.

She died Friday, a hospital official said.

While abortion is still legal in the US, many on the right would like to see that changed. Many states are making abortions so restrictive that it’s nearly impossible for a woman to find an abortion provider. Some states are outright banning abortion as soon as 18 weeks after conception. It’s not difficult to envision that a situation similar to the one in the Dominican Republic could happen in today’s United States.

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/08/18/pregnant-teen-denied-both-chemotherapy-and-abortion-dies-video/

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Very sad

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Very sad

I wonder how, exactly, this is "pro life".

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While abortion is still legal in the US, many on the right would like to see that changed. Many states are making abortions so restrictive that it’s nearly impossible for a woman to find an abortion provider. Some states are outright banning abortion as soon as 18 weeks after conception. It’s not difficult to envision that a situation similar to the one in the Dominican Republic could happen in today’s United States.

And that to some is the arrival in the promised land. Sickos they are.

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I wonder how, exactly, this is "pro life".

What if the fetus had not miscarried and there was a live birth and the mom died of cancer some time later?

What would you have said then?

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What if the fetus had not miscarried and there was a live birth and the mom died of cancer some time later?

What would you have said then?

You're a good soldier for the just cause. All that happened here was God's will. How dare people question God?

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You're a good soldier for the just cause. All that happened here was God's will. How dare people question God?

Hindsight is always 20/20.

In this case, both the mother and the fetus died. And now the media and Internet feminists are going to try to use this as yet another hammer with which to beat down the faithful.

I have a different way of looking at this.

Transport yourself back to the time when the mother had cancer and the fetus was viable and healthy. The outcome is not yet known.

What is known is that chemo, in the best case, may lengthen the mothers life with a significant chance of remission while damaging and/or killing the fetus.... in the worst case, chemo would have little impact on the mothers cancer while still doing irreparable harm to the fetus.

What would you decide then?

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What if the fetus had not miscarried and there was a live birth and the mom died of cancer some time later?

What would you have said then?

I would not be very optimistic for the motherless infant baby girl born in the Dominican Republic.

What would they do with her? Guess my answer would vary depending on the family/income structure of the now dead teenage girl. Are the grandparents around? I'm sure they are probably very young, 30s / 40s at best. A lot of unknowns to answer that but it is probably a good thing she is not around. Also, she got a free pass to Heaven.

FYI: A 9-week fetus is the size of a green olive. Just microscopically bigger than a raspberry. It weighs less than 2 grams. I do not feel sorry for "it" at all.

ETA: If I was the mother with Cancer, only 16 years old, and knew that Chemo would do a lot of damage to the fetus I would abort without hesitation and hopefully survive through Chemo.

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Hindsight is always 20/20.

In this case, both the mother and the fetus died. And now the media and Internet feminists are going to try to use this as yet another hammer with which to beat down the faithful.

I have a different way of looking at this.

Transport yourself back to the time when the mother had cancer and the fetus was viable and healthy. The outcome is not yet known.

What is known is that chemo, in the best case, may lengthen the mothers life with a significant chance of remission while damaging and/or killing the fetus.... in the worst case, chemo would have little impact on the mothers cancer while still doing irreparable harm to the fetus.

What would you decide then?

I'd let the mother-to-be decide. It's her life.

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I would not be very optimistic for the motherless infant baby girl born in the Dominican Republic.

Children grow up without one or both parents all over the third world. Most of them live long enough to experience both happiness and heartbreak. They're human, just like you or I. You seem to suffer from the elitist first world delusion that one can not be happy without a smartphone and air conditioning and free school lunches, but I assure you that is not the case.

I'd let the mother-to-be decide. It's her life.

Even if her chances of survival with chemo are less than the fetus' chances of survival without?

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Even if her chances of survival with chemo are less than the fetus' chances of survival without?

Yes.

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Yes.

Wow. That is, to me, an unimaginably callous response. I'm afraid the gap between you and I on this is too large to be bridged by further conversation.

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Children grow up without one or both parents all over the third world. Most of them live long enough to experience both happiness and heartbreak. They're human, just like you or I. You seem to suffer from the elitist first world delusion that one can not be happy without a smartphone and air conditioning and free school lunches, but I assure you that is not the case.

And on average, how do they turn out? Good, bad, or dead by 10...

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And on average, how do they turn out? Good, bad, or dead by 10...

We're a civilized species. We don't make life or death decisions for an entire category of people based on the average outcome.

If a human being is able to feel the emotions that makes us human, his or her life was worth it.

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Wow. That is, to me, an unimaginably callous response. I'm afraid the gap between you and I on this is too large to be bridged by further conversation.

So you want to tell the mother that she has less of a right to live than the embryo or fetus she is carrying. You want to sit there and say that you can make a better decision than the woman that's personally impacted by the decision. What gives you the right to sentence that woman to death?