Back to episode — Episode 2594 CWSA 09/11/24
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ug—not earplug, a what do you call it—a headphone except it sits outside your ear but my understanding is although it’s outside the ear like an earring that’s got a little speaker thing that’s pointing toward your ear so only you can hear it. Now there’s a picture of that device that has that quality that it’s a like a headphone thing. Yeah and I’m seeing—oh here here it goes and here’s a picture.…
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Now if you assume that medical help is still better than no medical help then although you can hate the fact that medicine kills a lot of people you can still say okay we’re still in favor of health care. If it’s the same in this abortion situation that there might actually be a case where a baby was born alive and they let it die that could have been saved and could have had a full life of some kind then that might actually be true but it wouldn’t be unusual if you look at the larger field of medicine. They make mistakes because they’re humans.
But it’s hard for me to imagine a situation and by the way if you’re thinking I’m going to be pro or anti-abortion I’m not. I still think women need to figure it out. Just tell me what you decided. I’m just describing it so you can understand it better I hope. What I think happens is that you probably have at least one medical professional, at least the doctor, probably nurses and some other people involved if it’s a normal procedure and you may have at least the mother being involved in the decision. Now you’ve got the hardest decision in the freaking world that you aborted but there’s something there with a heartbeat. Whose job is it to figure out what to do now? It’s yours. You the mother, you the doctor and maybe a few other people involved. It’s the hardest decision in the world. Do you try your best and maybe all you’ve done is taken something that didn’t need to suffer and given it a week more of suffering, just pure suffering? Or do you say let me give it some whatever this is—whatever you want to call it you could call it a baby or not—but I’m going to give it some painkillers but since I don’t think it can survive under any condition I’m going to make sure the painkillers are lethal. Nobody would check. And by the way is that unethical? It’s the way we handle seniors. When a person is 100 years old and near death and can’t make their own decisions anyway the doctor and the family member closest they decide do we give you a basically lethal dose of painkiller and hurry things up because there’s nothing that can be gained. There’s no upside.
Now could they ever be wrong? Yes they could be wrong and they could end up basically killing somebody who could have had a whole life just like every other part of me
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dicine they can be wrong. But here’s my take. If the mother and the doctor in their best judgment make a decision at that moment I don’t want anybody else in the world involved because it’s the hardest decision in the world and they’re the closest to it. Even if they get it wrong I still back them. It’s the hardest decision in the world. We should just stay the out of that because they’re not goin…
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