If u were a single preg mom&sonogram showed baby had disease that would paralzye her neck down would u abort?

Question

if u were a single mom, who's dead beat father left her with no support or money. and u had little famlily..and ur baby had a condition like this, would u abort?

Answer 1

I have two children and thankfully they are both healthy and well. I can't even imagine what it is like to be put in the position to hear something so horrific when you are expecting. I will not say what I would or would not do, because honestly until YOU are actually in the situation you do not know what you would do.

Answer 2

Ummm..... is it possible to live without life support when you're paralyzed from the neck down? I mean.... look at what happened to Christopher Reeve. Sure he was able to gain very little of his motor abilities but that was after serious strenuous rehabilitation that costs A LOT of money. I don't think that a baby would have the strength to go through that, and I would think that the baby may not even live with that kind of disability. I mean, when someone is paralyzed it's because nerves are not receiving signals from the brain due to trauma that causes severed nerves/spinal cord. If there are no signals going from the brain to the rest of the body then there would be no signals from the brain for the baby's heart, lungs, and other necessary systems to kick in so i would imagine the baby probably would not live very long if it is able to survive at all.

Answer 3

Although I am very pro-life, in this case I would say that this is a case that should be between the mother and the doctor.
Now, for me, I would go ahead and have the baby. But that's my choice. I know of a young woman who was born paralyzed just the way you are talking about, who is in her teens now. She sings like an angel, and her music inspires thousands.. Imagine how much talent has wound up aborted...who knows what scientific discoveries we may have made by now?
Maybe we sat quietly while the guy who could have taught us how to deal with global warming was murdered. Or the person who could have saved thousands of people from the Tsunami. Or found the real cure for AIDS, or developed new techniques for heart surgery, or, or....or................
We'll never know, will we?

Answer 4

No, I would not. For one, I know for a fact there are a ton of financial aid programs out there for situations just like this.

And secondly, I'm pregnant now with my first, and while at this moment, I've got a great husband, and a decent income, and our little one seems to be healthy - I still know that at any moment my husband could die, I could loose my job, my little girl could break her spinal cord - these are all risks I understood and accepted going into this whole pregnancy thing.

Edit - I think I'm seeing a pattern here of the most of the people saying they would abort it, not knowing the process of pregnancy - you generally don't get your first ultrasound that could remotely tell that sort of thing until your about 20 weeks along. Recently a baby went home from the hospital that was born as early as 22 weeks into the pregnancy. We're not talking about an amorphic ball of cells at this point, we're talking about a very viable human being. I'm just wondering now how many would change their mind after knowing how late in the pregnancy game they would find this out.

Thanks

Answer 5

I'm seven and a half months pregnant with my third child and married. I worked with people (babies through adult) with disabilities and would never wish that on anyone. I can honestly say though that I would have trouble accepting the diagnosis and thus have trouble ending the pregnancy. Every moment I fear that there might be a problem with my third son here or that something horrible could happen to my other two little guys but I couldn't kill them just to save them from what might be. I wish I could say that I would put the child first and abort but I don't think I could.

Answer 6

No I would not abort- for whatever reason that child is created the way he/she was created. It would be hard, and if I decided that I could not raise him/her there are families that adopt special needs children. Open your eyes to the truth that abortion is wrong no matter the circumstance. what if an older child or adult later in life got paralyzed would you want to get rid of them as well? Now that would be murder wouldn't it?

Answer 7

this question will in all probability in simple terms get particularly some rhetoric from the two sides of the abortion debate. If somewhat one has a disease or someother subject in the process being pregnant then it is going to in all probability the two finally end up in miscarriage or be nonetheless born. If the toddler got here to term and you incredibly might desire to not help then you definately might desire to place it up for adoption. in case you seem in any phonebook, newspaper, the internet, or any catholic church you will get suggestions on adoption.

Answer 8

Most likely, yes. I don't agree with using abortion as birth control, but I couldn't see myself bringing a person into this world whose short life probably wouldn't have alot of happiness. I mean, what kind of quality of life could a child have if they were paralyzed from the neck down? The pain they'd go through is more horrific than the idea of abortion -- whether I was a single mom or not.

Answer 9

That's between you and your family. If you are ready to take on a life dedicated to a paralyzed child, and if your other children are okay with conforming their own lives to fit that, then you have your answer.

But don't give birth to a child you can't take care of.

Answer 10

Yes, without a doubt. Regardless of the marital status, if I had a baby who would be a permanent quadraplegic, would not be able to enjoy life or would not have a life worth living... Without a doubt.