you knew the person you where with has HIV?
2006-11-22 09:06:30 · 27 answers · asked by sgsabs 1 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Pregnancy
I should say that you found out after the fact.
2006-11-22 09:09:06 · update #1
http://familydoctor.org/093.xml
Do some research and talk with your doctor. IF you have HIV there is a good chance that your baby could be born without it. Most of the time the baby is infected during delivery, this can be avoided by having a c-section.
Your mistake should not cost your baby its life.
2006-11-22 09:13:47 · answer #1 · answered by Shalvia 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think an abortion is the last thing that you need to worry about. Why would you sleep with somebody that has HIV? Plus when you go to the doctor for tests they do a HIV on pregnant women. So you better start thinking about the health of that baby, and get to a doctor.
2006-11-22 17:13:18 · answer #2 · answered by bunnie17479 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
With the medical care available today, the chances of passing HIV from mother to baby is SLIM to NONE. That's even IF you actually have HIV, which is very difficult to transmit through heterosexual vaginal intercourse.
Don't use the remote chance that your baby might have HIV as a reason to kill your child. Evil always has a way of twisting things and making it seem as though nothing will work out in order to make you make the wrong choice. Please embrace hope. Please have faith. Please don't choose despair and pessimism. Everything happens for a reason.
In addition, make a pact with God and yourself to change your life. You can do that with a firm decision and an open heart. Reject casual sex. If you can't do that, at least protect yourself against STDs and pregnancy by having SAFER sex, but be prepared for the consequences if those things fail. No birth control or protection method is 100% effective. Your use of those things is an implied acceptance of those risks. Act accordingly.
2006-11-22 17:22:37 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
It's possible that the child could be born HIV free.
People with HIV live relatively long lives now with medical advances and proper treatment.
Who are we to decide what life is worth living?
How can you say you are "completely against abortion" if there is even ONE circumstance under which you would allow it?
You too could now have HIV. Is your life no longer worth living? If it is, why isn't the baby's?
2006-11-22 17:16:38 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, I think the simple answer to that question is that anybody who believes abortion is absolutely 100 percent wrong, no matter what, will make the decision not to abort. Anybody who believes that abortion is the right of the mother to decide - and especially so in such a situation as this - I am sure will abort. Personally, if I were born with HIV and grew up to a life of misery and constant drugs, and hospital visits and tests etc. etc. etc. and I knew that my mother had the chance to spare me the whole thing by aborting her foetus before it came to birth, I would have no kind feelings towards her. I would consider that she was thinking more of herself, and her own personal beliefs, than she was about me and the kind of so-called "life" she was condemning her child to.
2006-11-22 17:16:34 · answer #5 · answered by sharmel 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Just because the person that you were with has HIV, it does not mean that the baby is going to have HIV. If you take meds there is actually only a 2% chance that the baby will end up with AIDS. You should get tested ASAP!!
2006-11-22 17:10:04 · answer #6 · answered by ShanaJ 4 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Very simple!! I assume you're saying what if the baby is born with HIV. Well what do we do to people who have HIV now? I can tell you what we do not do......we don't kill them. And we shouldn't kill unborn Innocent children that are likely to be born with HIV either. Does that mean that child will have a perfect life........no. But if that's the requirement we have to meet before we allow them to come out of their mothers womb alive then we'll have to abort(murder) them all.
2006-11-22 17:21:02 · answer #7 · answered by Barry DaLive 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There are new medications out their that can cut down the risk of passing HIV to your baby by up to 80%! Plus, people live healthy lives for years with HIV....what if in 6 years they find a cure? Still have the baby, by all means still have it!
2006-11-22 17:19:58 · answer #8 · answered by angie_laffin927 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
First of all, you need to have yourself tested. Second of all...you need to evaluate the relationship. Did your partner know and not tell you? There is a chance that a baby can be born to a mother with HIV and not have it...and there is also a chance that your partner could live a long life with medications etc. However....it is a huge risk to take and the guilt that you will feel if your child IS born with HIV will be devastating. If I were you...I would reconsider abortion.
Good luck and my prayers are with you.
2006-11-22 17:15:47 · answer #9 · answered by Sunshine 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
They give the mother an HIV test durring pregnancy because if the mother is infected they have medicine and ways to prevent the baby from getting it.
Condoms... they are a good thing.
2006-11-22 17:14:35 · answer #10 · answered by tory_licious 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋