Comments on: Woman Sues Doctor for Child-Rearing Cost After Failed Abortion

By: bartybarbie

bartybarbie — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 02:06:48 +0000

Blaming the doctors for her messed up life will not take her anywhere, it will just show how bad of a person she is to start with. Thsi is typical of someone angry at the system, a person who’s not honest with healthcare providers, misses inportant follow-up appointments and wnats the system to pay for their own mistakes (decisions and acts).
I hope she gets the boot!

By: Holly Schwendiman

Holly Schwendiman — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 21:30:39 +0000

Well, on the one hand I think we live in a world where we continue to push the delaying of (in effort to remove) consequences for our actions. So on the note of making doctors accountable for their services, I agree that it’s worthy of attention although I’m not sure the plan of attack is the best/right method. Mostly because the factors of the equation are blame game at best, and both sides display a level of desire to point a finger or have someone else be responsible for things that are painful or at least hard to bear.

On the other hand I disagree completely with the reason for the lawsuit to begin with. The problem with the “choice” of abortion to me is that it’s not the choice we’re talking about at all but rather the consequence of a choice made previously. Very few and rare are the cases where choice was not a factor in the steps leading to pregnancy and those cases are NOT the ones I’m talking about. It’s always amazed me how much energy is wasted debating the issue of personal choice/control in the matter when the whole situation is a consequence to begin with that resulted from the same agency of personal choice/control. This isn’t about choice, this is about consequence and avoiding accountability. We don’t get to choose our consequences, only the decisions that result in them. Anyone who believes otherwise is simply fooling themselves and maybe they’re successful at finding some immediate delays of consequences, but one day it will become quite clear that there is no rock big enough to hide under and it will be obvious that we didn’t dodge or remove any of the consequences of our actions at all.

I think the saddest message in the story is that there is such a thing as an unwanted child. In a world where thousands upon thousands of couples want, pray and jump through every hoop available to have a child - there is no such thing as an unwanted child. There are however a lot of disconnects and roadblocks between the two finding each other. What a horrible message to send to the 2 year old daughter. This is where God’s law of morality shows its great wisdom because the spirits waiting to come to this earth to gain a body have a right to come to a clean tabernacle free of detrimental affects from the bad choices of another. They have a right to be raised by loving parents. This little girl has every right to be loved, cherished and nurtured by parents who want her and have always wanted her. Every child deserves this. They are 100% innocent and don’t deserve the fall out that come from decisions they have zero control over. It’s not God’s way, it’s man’s.

I’m sorry for writing a book. My emotions on it are a bit raw today after spending all day yesterday trying to remove roadblocks for one very innocent baby. It’s just not right. Thanks for speaking up on it and thanks for sharing your story. It takes courage to share.

Hugs,
Holly
Holly’s Corner

By: Kelly Krause

Kelly Krause — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 20:46:42 +0000

Oh, Angel. What a brave and smart choice you made. You allowed God to show you not only Emily’s destiny, but yours also. The world is a better place because you made the choices you have. I speak from experience of friend and adoptive mom.
Now this Ms. Raper needs to get a clue about the message she is sending to her daughter. Just in general the rejection issue and then not taking responsibility for your actions. Unbelievable!!!
I agree with Shay….I pray that this young girl turns out to be a model citizen and fulfills the destiny that God has meant for her.
A child’s destiny is my soap box…so I could go on for days about this issue. All 3 of my boys have come to me through destiny. God had to use some interesting vehicles to get them to me, but
like you Angel….I just had to listen.
I hope Ms. Raper gets out of the court room and into her daughter’s bedroom to help this young life discover her destiny.

By: Shalom

Shalom — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 17:01:26 +0000

I hope Raper’s daughter grows up to have an Oprah destiny.
Have you ever heard Oprah talk about her mom? She hardly ever does, yet the Divine Miss O has gone on to become the greatest living example of what can come from nothing. She was the result of a one night stand, and because her mom did not have an abortion, she was given the opportunity to give her gifts and natural talents to the world causing a ripple affect that has changed lives world wide.