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If you flip that fortune over, it has lottery numbers too.

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"A routine but necessary part of practicing medicine is the decision not to squander resources on someone who is already brain-dead, such as in a massive brain trauma scenario, or fetuses that have no chance of surviving long enough to develop to a point of viability on their own even with advanced interventions."

I'll respond to that with an exerpt from the modern version of the Hippocratic Oath which every physician takes:

"...Most especially must I tread with care in matters of life and death. If it is given me to save a life, all thanks. But it may also be within my power to take a life; this awesome responsibility must be faced with great humbleness and awareness of my own frailty. Above all, I must not play at God..."

Refusing all life saving care based on the odds is playing God.

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You seem obsessed with the practice of "mooching". You've called at least two people that. Do you still live with your mommy? Does she know you're being disrespectful to the grownups? Maybe you should go play Animal Jam and leave the serious discussions to the adults in the comments section.

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I am not obsessed with anything at all. You are very not smart if you "think" that we have not seen your childish whining before. Because, republican.

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Aw shit! I just figured you out. You're a fucking foreigner, aren't you?! At first I thought you were just a typical democrat, you know: a retard. But now all the nonsense sentence structure and oddball insults make sense. Yo no speakuh guud engrish, right? But you're just chomping at the bit to infest our political discourse with the failed foreign bullshit your family ran away from, in whatever third world dung heap spawned you. Ordinarily, I'd just laugh at your ignorant ass. But you're probably a registered democrat and an illegal alien. Really sad.

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Aw, shit! You just outed yourself as a total and complete moron! Really sad.

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The mother's story is available. The miscarried infant was held by the mother and died in her arms. Her other children got to see and hold their sibling. Merely extremely poor taste posting such a personal event.

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Days later. We just had a disgusting poster on the local news rag, that posted he or she did not want to spend any further tax money on schools, or health care. Our illustrious state has not expanded Medicaid and is working to turn doctors against any alternative (people have died meantime who could have been medically saved) and it is the lowest in funding for schools in the nation. BUT, they claim to follow Jesus, have high Family Values, and love children.

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Actually - the true progressive socialists simply want to save the lives of the women involved. You, on the other hand would rather see them die. Another Killing Conservative!

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Non12stepworks wasn't talking about odds. He/she was talking about situations in which there is no chance of survival, and attempts at such will only prolong suffering.

Playing God? What would you call artificially keeping a braindead person alive via technology? If that's not playing God, I don't know what is.

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All of medicine is playing God.

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And here I thought “maroon” was a dark shade of red.

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Wow, thanks for the opinion from the "I have no abilities in the cerebration department" crowd!

Good to see what you "people" are thinking.

Want to see all the alleged "babies" brought to term and/or medicated at huge cost when there is no hope?

PAY FOR WHAT YOU WANT YOURSELF!!!!

Of course you "people" never want to put your money where your mouth is. Moochers.

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They "believed" that Terri Schiavo was going to jump out of bed any day and then go on "Dancing with the Stars".

'Cause miracles do happen, doncha no?

When I ask them about the fact that advanced imagining showed Ms. Schiavo's brain had atrophied away and he skull was full of "chicken soup (CSF)" they blank out.

Because they are very not smart.

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KKKarley lied her ass off. No matter how many stupid words you string together that is a fact. Another fact is that the fetus was at best non-viable and most likely was already dead yet still making some involuntary spastic or reflex movements.

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"that it is not committing, as every investigation has shown", Funny I thought the investigation is just starting. These fuks are going down.

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