C-Section Contrast
I don’t usually blog on this topic, but the synchronicity of these two stories struck me as interesting.
First we have a woman from Utah who, when told it was necessary by her doctors, refused to undergo a C-section to give birth to her twins. Finally, she did undergo a C-section, but because of her delay, as well as the drugs in her system, one of the children was stillborn. Now, I believe her when she says that she did not avoid the C-section because she didn’t want the scar–apparently she had had two C-sections before–but certainly she was negligent to ignore the doctors’ advice (unless claims of mental incompetence are true, which I sort of doubt in a very uninformed way), and more so for using alcohol and illegal drugs, which even a person who is relatively incompetent should know is not kosher.
But the interesting contrast comes from a story from Mexico, where a woman not only had a C-section to give birth to a healthy child (she had lost a previous child in labor), but–because the baby was not coming naturally, and because she was 8 hours from a hospital, in a rural area with no electricity and no clean water–and I presume also there was no one else present or willing to do it–she performed the C-section on herself with a kitchen knife after downing three small glasses of tequila. Now that is an amazing feat, and demonstrative of what lengths a parent will go to in order to preserve a child. That woman deserves a medal.
First of all, it is not true and it is not possible that, the woman was as some insist on lying “ordered” by her doctors. Doctors cannot force you to do anything, and in cases where they decide things for the best of vegetables and retarded people, there is a whole legal rigamarole they have to go through to prove they aren’t just messing with the patient.
Second of all, there are a lot of MEN-the ones by definition never in danger of any of the physical perils of pregnancy-yarlping about how a C-section is some kind of walk in the park. Not only is this as perverse a lie as comparing brain surgery to band-aid application, but ALL pregnancy related things are pretty dangerous. We tend not to appreciate this, but a C-section is a very dangerous thing.
As far as the Mexican woman, there is a danger that morons will point to it as evidence of how easy unanaesthetized gynecologic/obstetric surgery can be, and our initial response is that it’s like the British soldier in Iraq who took four direct head shots to a helmet meant to protect from frag and not direct shots…and then it turned out he was lying.
Outrageous.
In response to Kei and Yuri, I understand the point that you were trying to make. However I would like to inform you that even the best of people with disabilities are able to make their own decisions. Your comment with regard to “vegetables and retarded people” was very hurtful. Please consider people with disablities as people first, who deserve to be held in the same high regard that you or I expect of others.
Thank you
Tiffy