I already saw an anecephalic baby - stillborn in the 6th month, at a time where we did not have the means for a diagnosis before birth.
I think, if the parents decide to interrupt the pregnancy in a case like that, they should get all financial support, which is needed.
As a midwife I might have a different take than the rest of you. There are parents who decide to wait till the baby wants to be born by itself, although it will suffer from serious brain damage and won´t stay alive for a long time. They want to have the possibility to welcome and farewell their child, which is a part of this family forever. There won´t be taken any painful life maintaining actions, but the child can pass in his mother´s arms. I am highly respectful of this decision, but I can understand and support (in my job) the other pov as well.
I am happy to have two healthy children and I don´t know how I would decide.
Lhaewin -
Of course you would be compassionate, it would be a terrible situation for the family to be a part of, knowing the situation or not.
In this case, however, both of these women were told of the situation of their fetus well after normal abortion would be available to them in the US, and as their spouses were both in the military serving their country at the time, to have our Judicial Department appeal these findings in terms of the women having valid medical procedures performed just makes me sick.
In essence, these women, the spouses of servicepeople, were told that their husbands' medical insurance, which is what Triserve is, would not cover dealing with the dire situation ahead of time., Allowing the women to have their pregnancies terminated spared the families not only horrible heartache, but also potentially dire medical conditions for the mothers by forcing them to deal with an induced and abnomal birth process. The costs of forcing the mothers in this case to undergo the same medical procedures at nine months would not have cost any less and would have been far more dangerous. All these families are asking is to have their medical bills covered.
The government again here in the US has backed itself into an unreasonable corner which just makes them look like idiots. The lower courts found in favor of the plaintiffs in all cases, it was not until the current administration stepped in that these two cases were pursued in vengeance upon appeal.
What is next under this administration? I really ask this out of fear, since they seemingly have no bounds in terms of what they will pursue in their horrible heavyhandedness to suspend the Constitution and anything else that stands in their way. I am not a political zealot, and never have been, but this just frightens me, they seemingly just never take no for an answer.