It's So Personal, Ctd: The Catholic Mother
- From: Alan Ferris <hairy.ferrit@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 02 Jun 2009 08:18:31 +0100
It's So Personal, Ctd: The Catholic Mother
A testimonial from a Catholic family who sought out a late-term
abortion from this site:
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/06/its-so-personal-ctd-the-catholic-mother.html
At 17 weeks gestation our baby had been diagnosed with major heart
defects requiring a minimum of three risky open-heart surgeries
beginning at birth, and would later require a heart transplant. At 19
weeks we were finally given our amnio results which revealed our baby
also had Trisomy 21.
A surgeon at the major teaching hospital where we'd had our fetal
echocardiogram informed us that even if our baby somehow survived his
palliative surgeries, this latest diagnosis meant he would not ever be
eligible for a heart transplant. As we sat talking quietly in our
living room, our priest shared with us that he?d spent time at the
same hospital where we?d had our fetal echocardiogram and where our
son would have had surgery.
He was there to support the family of a three-month-old who was having
heart surgery. In the three weeks or so that he tended to this family,
he also met 10 other families in the waiting room, each of whom also
had young babies undergoing heart surgery. Sadly, within the short
space of time our priest was there, every single one of those babies
died.
Our priest came away from that experience feeling that this
world-renowned children?s hospital was basically experimenting on
babies. He saw their futile suffering and likened it to being
crucified. The family he had gone there to support later told him that
if they had only known what their baby would be forced to go through
before dying, they would never have chosen surgery. Our priest told us
that he believed we were not choosing our son?s death, only choosing
the timing of his death in order to spare him a great deal of
suffering. Something he said that brought us great comfort was ?God
knows what is in your hearts.? God knows our choice was based on mercy
and compassion. Who would better understand our hearts than God, who
made the choice for His own Son to die?
--
Ferrit
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