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Amerigo Vespucci (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-20-11 02:56 PM Original message |
PHOTOS: Stacie Crimm, the mother who refused chemotherapy to save her unborn daughter |
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Nuclear Unicorn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-20-11 03:00 PM Response to Original message |
1. A hero. A mother. A friend. |
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LynneSin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-20-11 03:02 PM Response to Original message |
2. The decision the mother made is a personal one - between her and her doctor. |
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CTyankee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-20-11 03:43 PM Response to Reply #2 |
8. Knowing someone who is in a losing battle with a brain tumor, I wonder if |
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LynneSin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-20-11 03:57 PM Response to Reply #8 |
9. Could be the case |
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Blue_Tires (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-20-11 03:04 PM Response to Original message |
3. Not what I would have done... |
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Exultant Democracy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-20-11 03:13 PM Response to Reply #3 |
4. Seems like a terrible burden to saddle a child with. |
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CTyankee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-20-11 03:31 PM Response to Reply #4 |
7. A dear family member, now passed, lost her mother on the day of her birth. |
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noiretextatique (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-20-11 04:25 PM Response to Reply #4 |
16. cancer is the cause of the woman's death, not the child |
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CTyankee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-20-11 04:29 PM Response to Reply #16 |
17. Yes, I think it could be...not to diminish her sacrifice, tho. She did a brave thing. |
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Exultant Democracy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-20-11 06:20 PM Response to Reply #16 |
20. Guilt has never been the most rational emotion. |
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AngryAmish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-21-11 11:10 AM Response to Reply #4 |
24. Of course it is better that the child be killed. |
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Exultant Democracy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-21-11 11:38 AM Response to Reply #24 |
25. If you are saying a first trimester embryo fetus is a child? If so we need to outlaw abortion |
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WilmywoodNCparalegal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-20-11 03:16 PM Response to Original message |
5. I'm ensnared in a message board war on the MSNBC site |
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Ilsa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-20-11 04:14 PM Response to Reply #5 |
14. Born at 2lbs, it is quite likely that she'll need help, possibly her whole life. nt |
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lynne (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-21-11 12:00 PM Response to Reply #14 |
29. Actually, her chances for a totally normal life are excellent - |
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TBF (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-21-11 11:49 AM Response to Reply #5 |
28. " it seems this poor woman's only objective in life was to conceive" - |
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CTyankee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-20-11 03:20 PM Response to Original message |
6. I wish we knew more about her situation... |
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Book Lover (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-20-11 04:02 PM Response to Original message |
10. How sad |
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11 Bravo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-20-11 04:04 PM Response to Original message |
11. The thing that eats me up about this is the fact that this remarkable woman ... |
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CTyankee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-20-11 04:32 PM Response to Reply #11 |
18. Yep, the so-called prolifers will want every woman to be forced to give birth. |
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Pacifist Patriot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-21-11 11:06 AM Response to Reply #11 |
23. Indeed. They completely miss the point that this is a beautiful story precisely because.... |
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seabeyond (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-20-11 04:05 PM Response to Original message |
12. wow, wow. i am gonna cry now.... |
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etherealtruth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-20-11 04:33 PM Response to Reply #12 |
19. That makes two of us |
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Ilsa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-20-11 04:12 PM Response to Original message |
13. An amazing story of a brave woman. And it was Her choice. No one had |
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lunatica (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-20-11 04:22 PM Response to Original message |
15. A beautiful love story |
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uppityperson (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-20-11 06:24 PM Response to Original message |
21. Choice is choice. Best of luck to them all. |
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Pacifist Patriot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-21-11 11:06 AM Response to Original message |
22. What I really love about this story is... |
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krispos42 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-21-11 11:42 AM Response to Original message |
26. That is a completely horrible situation to be in. |
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Brickbat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-21-11 11:45 AM Response to Original message |
27. This is a beautiful, moving story precisely because she was not forced to do this. |
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