Valuing Precious Life
[Guest post by Aaron Worthing; if you have tips, please send them here.]
You might remember a few days ago I talked about the hate that killed the beautiful* Hadas Fogel. Here’s a picture of her:
This morning on “teh Twitter” the Confederate Yankee wrote:
The difference between civilized man and animals? http://bit.ly/fx1f1K Man saves babies. Animals murder them
The link was to this article:
IDF forces and local paramedics helped save the life of a Palestinian woman and her newly born infant Wednesday, at the settlement where Fogel relatives are sitting Shiva for the five Israelis brutally murdered last week.
In case you didn’t know, this link will tell you what “sitting Shiva” is.
Just as IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz arrived in Neve Tzuf to offer his condolences, a Palestinian cab raced towards the community’s entrance. In it, soldiers and paramedics discovered a Palestinian woman in her 20s in advanced stages of labor and facing a life-threatening situation: The umbilical cord was wrapped around the young baby girl’s neck, endangering both her and her mother.
The quick action of settler paramedics and IDF troops deployed in the area saved the mother’s and baby’s life, prompting great excitement and emotions at the site where residents are still mourning the brutal death of five local family members.
Here’s a picture of the little girl, named Jude, and Haim Levin, the paramedic who helped bring her into this world:
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Palestinians from the nearby village of Nabi Salah gathered around the paramedics along with the new grandmother and could not hide their joy.
“They thanked us and told us they named the girl Jude,” Corporal Levin said. “I volunteered for Magen David Adom since age 15 and it’s the first time I witnessed childbirth. It was an amazing feeling, to hold the girl that was just born in my arms, and to know that in this complex place we did something good.”
And good for them, but it was funny that not half an hour before that story, I also read this story, coming from England:
Holding her newborn son Tom for the first time, Tracy Godwin marvelled at his eyelashes, and counted every precious finger and toe.
After the drama of his arrival at just 22 weeks, she knew she had a little fighter in her arms.
But at a mere one pound, and battling to breathe, he would need all the help he could get. That help never came.
Forty-six minutes later, and despite her desperate pleas to midwives for assistance, Miss Godwin’s son died as she held him.
She has since been told that the hospital has a policy not to resuscitate babies born earlier than 24 weeks into pregnancy.
Yesterday Miss Godwin, who visits her little boy’s grave every day, told how she is haunted by fears she and her partner didn’t do enough to help their baby when the medics around her refused.
‘They put him in my arms and he cried and was wriggling around. I could feel him breathing and see his eyelashes and fingers and toes,’ she said.
‘But I kept thinking, “Where’s the incubator?” We were begging the midwives to do something to help him but no one was saying anything. He was not stillborn, he was trying to live.
‘If they had tried for an hour and said they couldn’t do anything more for him or he was severely brain damaged, that would have been different, but he wasn’t given a chance.’
That is not the policy of England’s NHS, so much as that specific hospital. The policy is described as follows:
Although the NHS offers guidance on when to resuscitate premature babies, health trusts can decide individually whether or not to follow it.
Under the guidelines, doctors are advised not to try to save those born under 22 weeks as they are too underdeveloped.
Between 22 and 23 weeks it is not thought to be in the child’s best interests but can be done at the parents’ request after discussion of the likely outcomes.
At 23-25 weeks babies are routinely resucitated. Even with expert round-the-clock care, only 1 per cent of 23-weekers survive without disability.
As indeed, one NHS official likes it that way:
Babies born after just 23 weeks of pregnancy or earlier should be left to die, a leading NHS official has said.
Dr Daphne Austin said that despite millions being spent on specialised treatments, very few of these children survive as their tiny bodies are too underdeveloped.
She claimed keeping them alive is only ‘prolonging their agony’, and it would be better to invest the money in care for cancer sufferers or the disabled.
Dr Austin, who advises local health trusts how to spend their budgets, said doctors were ‘doing more harm than good by resuscitating 23-weekers’ and that treatments have ‘very marginal benefit’
It’s always in the name of mercy when these types come to deprive you of your life unworthy of life, isn’t it?
The Confederate Yankee says that humans don’t kill babies, but animals do. He obviously knows that is not literally true, but surely he means that this is the difference between being civilized and being a barbarian. Of course the Palestinians who murdered Hadas and their supporters are barbarians. But so are these people who believe it is right to watch a mother plea for her child’s life, to just give the child a chance, and then turn away from her and walk away. That is savage, too.
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* For the record all babies are beautiful. Except maybe baby Hitler.
[Posted and authored by Aaron Worthing.]
Also consider the story of the U.S. contractor in Pakistan who was arrested for defending himself and killing his attackers. He was recently released after the government paid the families of his attackers two million dollars. That is why the Torah forbids taking blood money. Here they continued to press the case (even though he was innocent) in order to get the payoff. Had he been guilty, he would have still been let go for the blood money and would have escaped punishment.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/mar/16/slain-mens-kin-paid-2m-pardon-cia-contractor/
Slain men’s kin, paid $2M, ‘pardon’ CIA contractor
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0311/blood_money_release.php3
Lawyer: ‘Blood money’ bought CIA contractor’s freedom
Sabba Hillel (dd522e) — 3/17/2011 @ 10:53 amWe can’t get too smug. Remember that a judge in this country not only ruled that a young woman should be starved to death but threatened to jail any nurse that gave her water or food, although the rational for killing her was that she was a brain dead vegetable (that could smile, frown, and swallow food and water fed to her).
Machinist (b6f7da) — 3/17/2011 @ 11:20 amExistence would be completely unjust if accounts of our actions were settled in this life only, but it is usually hard to maintain that perspective.
MD in Philly (3d3f72) — 3/17/2011 @ 12:07 pmIn any normal situation one would suppose that all those people, and especially the mother herself would from now on be friends of the Jews and oppose terrorism against them. And that the newborn girl would be raised with the story of who saved her life, how grateful she should feel to them, and how wrong it would be to kill them. Unfortunately, past experience tells us not to expect any such thing.
Milhouse (ea66e3) — 3/17/2011 @ 1:36 pmmilhouse…
will ceratainly characters like the jew eating bunny is likely to turn young jude toward hate. we’ll have to see, i suppose.
Aaron Worthing (e7d72e) — 3/17/2011 @ 1:55 pmThat looks like baby this guy. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/politics/
kansas (313837) — 3/17/2011 @ 2:39 pmWell the picture I had gave that link. Baby Hitler looks like Richard Trumka.
kansas (313837) — 3/17/2011 @ 2:41 pmIn 1967, I operated on a little girl who weighed one pound ten ounces. She had duodenal atresia, a congenital anomaly that is fatal if not corrected. It was easy to fix and we did the surgery under local anesthesia. We didn’t have respirators and she was on her own that way. I put in a gastrostomy tube so she could be fed directly into the stomach. Babies that small don’t have the instinct to suck.
She thrived and, by the time she was at four pounds, she could kick herself down into the tubes at the end of the incubator. She was sent home at five pounds. I wonder where she is now. She is 43. I wanted to adopt her. How sad it is when people who are supposed to be medical people let babies die.
Mike K (8f3f19) — 3/17/2011 @ 6:03 pmWe can’t waste that sweet taxpayer money on people who can’t make contributions or pay bribes. There is only so much we can get our hands on and those campaigns don’t pay for themselves.
Machinist (b6f7da) — 3/17/2011 @ 7:33 pmExactly machinist and can George Soros and his goons Victor Orban[who is a left of center scumbag] just go away already.
DohBiden (984d23) — 3/17/2011 @ 8:38 pmDr Austin, who advises local health trusts how to spend their budgets, said doctors were ‘doing more harm than good by resuscitating 23-weekers’ and that treatments have ‘very marginal benefit’
Yes, I imagine life is only a “very marginal benefit” of being born. It appears that fascism is alive and well… as it always has been.
And remember, our Lord God King voted to protect nearly this exact same behavior in the People’s Republic of Illinois.
In defense of animals, at least they eat what they kill. This is just evil – pure and simple.
5th Level Fighter (dd5bcf) — 3/17/2011 @ 9:30 pmthat whole they eat what they kill thing is very very over-stated that damn monkey ripped that woman’s face off and it wasn’t cause he wanted a nosh
happyfeet (ab5779) — 3/17/2011 @ 9:33 pmSurely, Vanessa Redgrave will go to heaven after supporting these monsters.
Icy Texan (c816cc) — 3/17/2011 @ 9:50 pmBy the end of which discussion it’s far too late to resuscitate. This is called “stalling until the point is moot.”
You resuscitate or you don’t. There is no time for a “discussion” of the merits.
Tully (62151d) — 3/18/2011 @ 8:18 am