Doctor insists parents choose starvation and slow death for baby born with cleft lip

lsn ^ | Kristi Burton Brown

[ELS]

That was how it was before political correctness took over.

[ladyL]

New Trier

[yldstrk]

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

[Bellflower]

Maybe they wanted the baby for something else, like body parts, or who knows what, and the cleft lip thing was an excuse to give to the parents so that they could get their hands on a living baby.

The parents were to never see the baby again, so who is to say what would have happened to the baby once there wasn't anybody who cared watching out for it. Evil things are able to happen when nobody thinks that such evil can take place. The hospital, if this is a true story, needs to be investigated.

[supremedoctrine]

Highland Park.

[Nifster]

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

[supremedoctrine]

Exactly right.
People, even kids, behaved this way naturally, w/o having to be threatened or lectured that they’d BETTER behave that way,
OR ELSE! This was 50 years ago ,when there was STILL such a
worthwhile construct as “The Liberal Conscience”, which has by now turned totally rancid.
PC is a deep perversion that originates in a completely unearned moral authority:Lib/Lefties search every nook and cranny of the behavior of their political opponents to find “proof” of small-minded bigotry, because without it, how could they feel righteous, bold, brave and “progressive”? Frankly there’s been nothing more maddening in my lifetime than the toxic growth and instutionalization of PC.Left unchecked, it’s the first phase of mind control, and a jackboot on the face of free speech.

[Hetty_Fauxvert]

I agree; this story seems so absurd that it is pretty unbelievable. The surgery for cleft palate is so simple, apparently, that American doctors regularly go to third-world countries to fix up kids who have this condition (and how did those kids manage to eat, eh?).

[Morgana]

Like I said I did a report on this in Biology class back in college. Now this was a LONG time ago, but as I recall those women are able to feed the babies but only little bits of milk at at time like with a medicine dropper. It would take a while to feed the baby but it can be done.

If this story is true it just means either the doctors were afraid of being sued for not finding on the ultra sound or they really hate deformed kids.

[Nifster]

I get frustrated when nameless doctors at nameless hospitals are cited. This hurts the pro life cause as much as anything. It makes others discount what we have to say.

[SaraJohnson]

I have never heard of anything like this happening in America, either. Never heard of turning a person over to a hospital so they can kill. Maybe it’s something new that came in with Obamacare?

[SaraJohnson]

America has teams of docs who go to India and Africa just to do cleft lip surgies as service projects.

[GeronL]

That is one of the easier things to fix isn’t it?

[FroggyTheGremlim]

Well, just deny food and water for the child.

After all, it's a very pleasant and peaceful way to die, isn't it?.

Ask Terri Schiavo

[Dr. Sivana]

I am unaware despite the writer’s claim) of ANY doctor who would advise a woman to abort a child.

You haven't been around very much. Besides the abortionists themselves who break numerous rules of conduct besides the actual action itself (medicare fraud, diagnoses of women as being pregnant when they are not), you have the well-documented high rates of misconduct by shrinks with attractive female clients. These sorts of misconduct are unlikely to be reported, or to get a sympathetic ear. The patients don't usually use a hidden tape recorder.

For something inside the purely professional realm, you have doctors at the WI union protests signing sick notes by the dozen for teachers who decided to play hooky. Many of today's doctors do not belong on a pedestal.

[2nd amendment mama]

I guess you missed all the stories about Terri Schiavo then! They allowed/demanded that she be starved to death. Get your head out of the sand....this is happening all the time.

[miss marmelstein]

The actor Stacy Keach was born with this condition. He’s had corrective surgery, looks fine and usually wears a mustache. If this story is true, the doctor was as mad as a hatter.

[old and tired]

It’s setting off my BS meter as well. I can believe some doctor (who’s not God but plays Him on TV) presented the option to basically starve their baby to death. However, that the couple received pressure to do so strikes me as untrue. Or else, the doctor had some serious emotional issues and would have many documented complaints against him. I don’t believe starving a baby with a cleft palate is best medical practice. I’d have reported some doctor to the hospital and the medical board who tried to tell me it was.

[Movemout]

i routinely donate money to smiletrain. they are a boon to those parts of the world without the medical expertise to repair these kind of defects.the before and after photos are simply amazing.the story above must be a distortion of truth. smiletrain can do a complete surgery with first class results for about $250.be generous and give a kid a smile!!!

[Nifster]

I have been around plenty. You have mixed so many issues in this one post it is unbelievable.

There are not that many abortionists in the US any more. Moreover one does not go to an abortionist with their Ob/GYN concerns (unless sent by planned parenthood.... a misnomer for an evil group if there ever was one).

You cite no data just the occasional story we read of doctors who do horrible things. By your logic there should be no teachers in the US because a few are disgusting individuals. You have painted not with a broad brush but the kind of if one does all must do it that say Alex Jones and Prison Planet does.

The doctors in the unions ( an entirely different issue all together) who broke their own canon of ethics looked to number about three or four on the video tapes of the time. I do not know how many were actual MDs. I do know that some were disciplined after their mugs appeared on the news.

And finally, your comments did not address my actual statement (which you kindly quoted). Ad hominem arguendo is not sufficient