@trappedbyparties,
trapped.by.parties;15138 wrote:Children that are going to have mental dissabilities are sometimes picked out as such. You can usually tell by the way the baby is forming. The only logical thing i can come up with on how they can tell. Do you think it would be better to wait for the baby to be born and then take it off of life support and die. you do have a choice of that as well. And while we are on the subject, do you think it is ok for people to decide wether or not a person in a coma should be taken off of life support? Even if the doctor says there is a good chance of recovery. It will cost a small fortune to keep that person on life support so some people who do not have the means to fullfill that financial burdon make the desicion to take the person off of life support. As hard of a desicion as it is it must be made.
But there is no way to tell if they will die in two years. I would rather let the baby have a chance to live. Is there so much difference in the baby from the point where you can tell something of the sort and when it is born? It is a doctor's responsibility to save his patients, both of them in cases of pregnancy, if they can. It is usually possible for the baby to live, even if there is a good chance it will die. If it's definitely going to die and it isn't suffering, well, let it live as long as it will, wouldn't you rather have a few extra months if you were going to die soon?
The only person who should be able to decide that is the person on life support, who may have a will dictating what to do. It isn't other people's choice to do that.