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In reply to the discussion: Fetus of Texas woman on life support 'distinctly abnormal,' family lawyers say [View all]Amimnoch
(4,558 posts)39. Since it is Texas, couldn't they just play the religious belief card?
I mean, this IS the state that protects parents who have living, breathing, and normal children with life threatening illnesses to deny their living children hospital care due to their belief in god, and belief that praying over the child is greater that giving the child known, and proven medical care.
Perhaps the family and husband should come out and state that the treatment the hospital is giving is against their belief in the big Jesus daddy boogey-man up der in da sky, and that according to their belief in god the hospital is working for Satan and it's their prayers that will save the baby.
Who knows.. that kind of logic (and I use that word lightly here) seems to work just fine with the cons.
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Fetus of Texas woman on life support 'distinctly abnormal,' family lawyers say [View all]
davidpdx
Jan 2014
OP
The forced-birthers/fetus-fetishists will drag this family as far through the mud as possible...
blkmusclmachine
Jan 2014
#2
The anti-choicers are religiously insane. No logic, science, or simple humanity is involved in their
blkmusclmachine
Jan 2014
#4
Yes. Because marriage ends at death, so this man isn't responsible for any of them. n/t
pnwmom
Jan 2014
#20
the woman is, in fact, brain dead, and there is no baby--there is a fetus. we make a huge
niyad
Jan 2014
#7
it is, indeed, a horror. maybe civil suits costing the pukes who wrote, and are enforcing, this
niyad
Jan 2014
#11
the state of texas (and 30 others) have a lovely little provision in the law that pregnancy negates
niyad
Jan 2014
#13
Since there's proof the fetus isn't developing normally, will they finally pull the plug?
MrsKirkley
Jan 2014
#15
This is what happens when Republican TeaBaggers play at being god's instrument. n/t
proReality
Jan 2014
#16
This is sick, especially in a state where executions occur almost monthly..
mountain grammy
Jan 2014
#26