When someone needs to be on a ventilator does that lower their value to that of a fetus?
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And yet both are stil life.\nWho has the right to decide who lives and who dies? YOU?
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This is a very open question whose answer depends on the condition that makes the baby "very sick"...if you're talking about a condition where the baby will die either late in pregnancy or very shortly after birth (as from some kinds of genetic anomalies or severe brain defects), then abortion would not be a wrong choice if that's what the mother wanted, to spare the heartache of watching a baby die after birth. If you're talking about a condition where the baby could be treated after birth and has at least some chance for a happy life, then that's a different story altogether. It's what they call a slippery slope argument, one that has caused uproar in many disability communities, human rights groups, etc., etc. There isn't a "right" or "wrong" answer that won't offend someone, somewhere. Personally, because of my own background, I would NOT have an abortion because the baby had a problem, unless it was something COMPLETELY incompatible with a happy life.
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the p is partial pressure. if the po2 is 65 depending on the patient that is on the low side. the pco2 means the patint is breathing a little fast, but not a bad pco2... i wouldn't extubate unless i knew the rest of the blood gas was ok? if the ph was 7.35-7.5 i would....  if the patient looked okay.... pulled good volumes on the vent
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An embryo or fetus is dependent upon its mother's body for survival. A woman has the right to have absolute dominion over her own person, and since the fetus or embryo is part of her person, no one has the right to force her to carry it to term.\n\nKilling an unborn child in a war is wrong, because you are murdering a separate life form whose existence is not dependent upon yours. And not only that, but the right of the mother of the unborn child to autonomy over her own body has been violated. It's forced abortion, pure and simple.\n\nI have mixed feelings about the death penalty. On the one hand, since murderers have deprived others of their right to live, they should also be robbed of theirs. On the other hand, since so many people have been wrongly convicted of murder, the death penalty should be abolished, because executions are irreversible.
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Yes, it's a very cruel and inhumane procedure. The doctor pulls the baby out and pokes a hole in it's skull to empty the brains. The skull is then crushed. If you are considering it please think of your baby. It is an alive being. Think about putting your baby up for adoption, instead.
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a t-tube by the way is the most cruel thing u can ever do to a patient its like breathing through a straw. But anyways, it is just a way to take a patient off of a ventilator to see if they are ready to be extubated without having to reintubate them. there are ways to do it with vent settings but some docs are just plain dumb and cruel and prefer that method. the po2 for that percent of o2 s low...
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I think you are absolutely correct my friend.  \n\nI just wish the folks having these abortions had to take the remains home and provide their baby a decent funeral service.  \n\nHaving some dispassionate butcher flush the remains or dump them in the trash is somehow befitting of the rest of the procedure though, low life from start to finish.\n\nI wonder what they think about when the vacuum starts whirling and the skull gets fractured.  You know the have to hear it.  \n\nDon't you love the ignoramuses who have bought the "women's right to her body" spin.\n\nIf they had at least 2 brain cells they would actually be able to connect the fact that no one is telling a woman what to do with her body in any other instance - go get your boobs bigger, smaller, have your fat sucked out, get as fat as you want, lippo, tummy tuck, face lift etc, etc, etc, .  do what the hell you want to YOUR body.  The baby inside you is not YOUR body however.  \n\nI just don't recall the protest of those procedures. Maybe it has more to do with the BODY of the infant having it's skull eviscerated than it does wanting to "control" a woman's body.\n\nI really don't know who is more simplistic, the imbeciles who came up the the smoke screen or all the liberals morons who can't see through it.
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It is an interesting dichotomy wherein pro-choicers want abortions on demand, and they question/argue about when a fetus is considered a human being.\n\nHowever, if a pregnant woman is attacked in some manner by someone, and the fetus dies, then the pro-choicers want the attacker charged with murder for killing the fetus they are all too willing to kill in the first place.  \nThe difference?...they'll state that the woman wanted to keep the baby, now they call it a baby because it's wanted, but unwanted, they'll call it a fetus.  Interesting
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For every person that answers this question, the answers will be guided strictly to the left or to the right, or down the middle.  As a health care provider who has worked in pediatrics for a number of years, I have witnessed some devasting interruption of life to both child and mother.  I have seen cases that I felt that abortion should have been an option--when a child of 10 or 11 gives birth--many times resulting in premature birth with mental and physical retardation of the baby.  In one particular case the mother was 12 when she gave birth, the child died at birth and was resuscitated.  The baby ended up living to 6 months of age, with a feeding tube, and contracted (the whole body was stiff as a board and could not be moved), and severe brain damage.  The mother's mother tried to "help", she was alcohol and drug dependent, and unintentionally kept yanking out the feeding tube.  She would call our local hospital, who would call the doctor and we would meet her at the office and replace the tube.  The baby died of pneumonia in the hospital with the mother and myself there and she allowed me to hold him as he struggled to die as he had stuggled to live.  I felt blessed to see and hold his tiny body give up the spirit of life and find God's blessing in death.  His mother at that time had just turned 13 and was 4 months pregnant.  \nAs a woman who is infertile who prayed and begged for a child for 15 years (I'm 44 now), through pregnancy or adoption, I also become emotionally upset at the thought of terminating a pregnany unless medically needed.\nSo, to sum how I feel up:  each person must answer and live with the decision they make (or has been made for them).  However, I very much BELIEVE that anyone should be forgiven for a mistake in a first pregnancy, but after conception the first time, there is no mistake to end up pregnant.  It's time to grow up irregarless of age.
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They don't, the baby's lungs do net even develop fully nor are inflated until birth. The baby is encased in the uterus in amniotic fluid. The feotus is connected to the mother through the umbilical cord and both their respiratory and circulatory system are connected through a thin layer of membrane. This facilitates exchanges in nutrients, oxygen as well as carry away excretement and carbon dioxide via the mother. The first true breath a baby takes is at the moment of birth.
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The main reason is that when the fetus is in utero his or her lungs are filled with amniotic fluid, when the baby passes through the birth canal his lungs are comprised and most of the liquid gets out but at the same time the lungs get completely collapsed.\nThe baby's brain doesn't need to breath ambient air while the umbilical cord is still intact because it is transferring oxygen from the mother to the baby but once its cut the baby's brain starts to get less oxygen and activates the respiratory centers which make the baby take a deep breath.\nBut since the lungs are collapsed he will need to do an extreme effort to expand the lungs so he will need to use all the muscles in his chest, this effort his huge and this is the reason of the cry its not as much of a pain cry as it is a yell of strength (like the ones you can hear sometimes from athletes)\nActually the first one is the hardest breath you'll ever take in your life, once the lugs expand breathing will be so easy that you´ll even forget that you are doing it.
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only if the female is pregnant
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I've heard this one before, but it was done with a man being connected to another accidentally after getting drunk and going to the wrong area of a hospital. It kind of puts things in a different light. \nPersonally I could never have an abortion and if someone asked me for advice I would have to urge them against it, but ultimately it is their life and body, so it is their life.
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Maybe a fetus or two.
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U forgot... " When a baby is aborted in the third trimester it is yanked out limb by limb!"
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none\nthis should be left up to either the parents or the individual
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right to life extremists are arguing on grounds that once you become pregnant you are responsible for another life. it does not matter to them if you want, can care for, or are responsible enough to handle another life. they assume that any life is better than no life. obviously these people have never realized true poverty and abuse. not only do they want to control your life and choices, but they generally not interested in adopting any of the children from the pregnant women standing outside the abortion clinics. these right to lifers only want these women to know that they of course will go to hell because they are murderers, and the ignorance goes on. now, if you really wanna know how i feel, send me an email.