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To: Morgana; Nifster

Doctors do this all the time these days.

My daughter went to see the doctor when she was pregnant with her first child a few years ago, and had an ultrasound. The doctor said that the baby MIGHT have Down’s Syndrome, and recommended that he should be aborted. My daughter refused. Her son, now about three, is normal. But so what if he had been a Downe’s syndrome baby? They are very special people, from all I have seen of them, and I’ve known a fair number of Downes people, of all ages.

Similar experience with my mother, who was in a nursing home for quite a while. Occasionally she’d be sent to the hospital, with breathing problems from pneumonia or the like. Almost invariably, the doctors in charge at the hospital would try to get me to agree to have her taken off food and medication. I refused. I think she lived a difficult but happy life in the nursing home, until her end finally came, and she died peacefully.

No hearsay about it. The medical profession no longer takes the old Hippocratic oath in some medical schools. Not all doctors, but too many of them, have that sort of attitude.


16 posted on 01/31/2013 7:05:00 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Cicero

I told my doc not to bother with the Down Syndrome test because I wasn’t going to do anything about it


23 posted on 01/31/2013 8:45:55 PM PST by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: Cicero

That doctor should have been reported. Your daughter was remiss in not doing so


26 posted on 01/31/2013 10:18:30 PM PST by Nifster
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