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In general I would agree with your thoughts that a spouse comes first. My agreement to this point does not mean that I hold the life of an unborn as trivial, but when faced with life vs. life issues there are hard choices.
This episode in a way skirted the issue a slight bit with two factors - 1) That the husband (patient) would not accept the transplant (apparently to the point that if it were done at the expense of his unborn child, then he would end his own life) and 2) in that in the end the patient was able to recover without a transplant.
But I do think that it handled things well. I am not one of those people who think that if a TV show (movie, etc) brings up an issue that has a good bit of controversy that the issue automatically has to be the over-riding aspect of the story.
I tend to fall on the pro-life side (but not to an extreme extent - and not to the point that I can't be reasoned with). I do think that progress can be made if both sides will address the areas of common agreement for most people about abortion. The great majority of Americans think that there should be fewer abortions.
Why can't people on both sides (and in the middle) work together toward helping women develop better support for alternatives (education, birth control, and adoption) to abortion and in cases where the mother decides on abortion - help reduce the number of late term abortions. In short, provide mothers with help toward making better decisions that might not produce as much personal regret (whatever the mother's personal beliefs). And I don't think we'd have to add another law, or ask for more money from the government to make great strides in these areas.
Silly me, but I think if more can be done in those areas, then maybe there might be less of a problem to be divided over.
BTW. I thought about using your "Hate Mail" generator - but darn it I just like you and the show too dang much.
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--Richard G. |
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