One thing that really irks me about social conservatives is their profession to care about all life, even unborn fetus’. While I do not believe abortion should be used as a form of birth control and only sparingly, it’s the law of the land in the US (up here too) as per the supreme court ruling in the 80s. Also they don’t seem to care about the lives of the millions of people suffering and once you’re born you’re on your own (unless you’re white & rich), you get absolutely no support for anything and don’t you dare get sick…
Sigh it’s too early to be worked up on my Saturday but this story really got me going.
A judge has ordered a Texas hospital to remove life support for a pregnant, brain-dead woman, siding with the husband and family in a case that has drawn international attention.
Judge R.H. Wallace Jr. issued the ruling Friday in the case of Marlise Munoz, 33, who is being kept alive in a hospital in Fort Worth against her family’s wishes. The judge gave the county-owned hospital until 5 p.m. Monday to remove life support.
“This is tragic and very difficult case,” the judge said before ruling that the state law in question did not apply to Munoz because she was dead.
Source: The Star
In another news story I read on the manner, the mother and fetus was deprived of oxygen for an hour and from the same article from the Star…
Earlier this week, Erick Munoz’s lawyers said the fetus, now believed to be at about 22 weeks’ gestation, is “distinctly abnormal,” with lower extremities deformed, and suffers from a number of other serious health conditions including water on the brain and heart problems. They said they based that statement on medical records they had received from the hospital.
Both husband and wife are paramedics so it’s not like they’re uneducated on the matter of health. The doctors in this hospital are just plainly wrong and it should never have come to this. To the social conservatives out there, if you want to change the laws on abortion (or the teaching of evolution) win a federal election on that platform. Don’t try to weasel in and impose your beliefs on others even though you lost.
