[tri-wings] Re: Input requested/Annie/coroner/conference

Hi Barbara,

The same question could be asked regarding people with terminal 
illnesses - you'd still attempt to treat pancreatic cancer, even though 
the likelihood of a patients survival is low. Babies born with a trisomy 
seem to be considered less important than an older person, is that 
because our babies can't speak for themselves?  Do doctors try less 
harder to save their lives because they don't have to listen to the 
begging and pleading of the ding patient for life saving treatment?  Or 
is it because doctors consider our babies less important because they'll 
never get the chance to contribute to society(in the conventional sense 
of course).  Maybe trisomies don't have to be fatal.  There's a history 
of 'why bother, the baby's going to die anyway', it becomes a self 
fulfilling prophecy.  Maybe, with a little help, our babies could lead 
fuller, longer lives and a diagnosis of trisomy doesn't have to be so 
devastating.

Jean
> I welcome, appreciate, and very much need your comments. Please feel free to 
> respond privately if you prefer. Thanks so much. The basic question is, Why 
> should health care dollars be spent on saving the lives of children who are 
> very limited and who have a shortened life span? 
>
>
>   

-- 
Mum to Arily Faith, born asleep, July 8th, 2006
and to Conor, born June 21st, 2007


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