by LauraLoo
While most people with a spouse or significant other think of what they can buy each other for Valentine’s Day, Diane Aulger gave her best to dying husband Mark - a chance to meet their daughter Savannah before he passed.
Amazing love!
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What a touching story. Babies are blessings. This man wanted to meet his youngest blessing before dying.
I Don’t Believe in Manipulating Nature For Sentimentality. The Baby could have been left to be born naturaly when The Baby was ready. This Is Like Using IVF or something,Just Because YOU want to. imo
It was a dying father’s wish.
I am so happy that baby got to meet daddy and daddy got to meet baby. Precious photos.
What if The Dying Father Says I Don’t Want The Child Any more Because I’m not gonna Be There,Should The Mother Get A Late Term Abortion?
Let’s stick to the topic at hand shall we?
That is not what this dying father asked is it?
Check your caps lock and have a great day!!!
See, that’s what is wrong in trying to have an opinion on the ethics of manipulating nature to suit our perceived wants or needs. Not enough reason and way too much emotionalism. I bring up a valid point and you attack me “personally”. You can’t have it both ways. The challenge is to the ethics of the issue of manipulating nature.I believe I have made that point. Thanks for wishing me a great day! How Sweet:-)
oh for crying out loud, it was two weeks early – thats not even considered pre-term.
Her doctors wouldn’t have induced if they didn’t think she was at a healthy weight and developmental age.
The computer you used to type your posts manipulates nature too.
Nice Loving Folks around here,,,only if you agree with them!
So sweet! I bet that little girl will be forever grateful she got to meet her daddy. :)
@Markie marie
“Check your caps lock”
“you attack me “personally””
Oh man that was bad, if she had told you you had a typo you two would have had to take it outside!
What a beautiful story! I would have done it myself in the same circumstances–and I’ve had six home births, so I’m definitely more natural-minded! But Dad is more important than having an ideal birth. Those pictures are going to be so precious to little Savannah!
Markie,
You have a different opinion. You have stated it. You disagree. The father should have died never having met his little girl. Got it.
Hope you never take any medication, Markie Mark. :)
Hi Markie Marie, I do agree with “not manipulating nature” but there are EXCEPTIONS. For instance, I do not believe that if you go the doctor with a headache he should schedule you for brain surgery. I am a holistic type person. However, if you do have a brain tumor, is it then “manipulating nature” to allow the doctor to operate and remove the tumor?
If this woman was 6 months pregnant and wanted to induce, I would say, no that is wrong to endanger the baby’s life. However, at 38 weeks pregnant she was full-term. There was no risk to the baby to be born at that age. Inducing makes labor harder on the mother but if she was willing to endure that so that father and daughter could meet before the father’s untimely death, then who are we to judge? Its not an ethical issue in my opinion and I’m surprised you seem to take that view.
That was a heartbreaker. Yet uplifting, too. < 3 :)
Markie marie: There’s a such thing as proportionality in making such judgments. Your judgment here seems disproportionate and also wildly unkind.
The mother could have given birth shortly after her husband’s funeral, permitting her children’s grief — the loss of their loving father! — to eclipse the joy of their sister’s arrival. And she could have watched her husband fade into the terminal oblivion of a coma knowing how much he regretting leaving soooo close to seeing his daughter. Thank goodness she’d have the consolation of knowing how righteous her tough decision would have been!
She could have come to terms, I suppose, with the regret that comes with awareness of the alternative: that she could have induced in order to share with her husband and children, in their parting days, this joy — welcoming together the new life they conceived together and amening in the face of death this gift from God.
And she could have nodded in satisfaction, amid all that, that at least she didn’t “manipulate nature.” What a moral triumph! And someday she could have passed along to this daughter the wise importance of not manipulating nature, illustrating how possible it is to resist the temptation by narrating her own story of triumphing over mere sentiment.
Then she’d take a call on her cell phone, a device that leverages a planet-wide manipulation of quantum physics through the efficient action of semiconductors. The call would be from the bakery, whose every product involves wholesale manipulation. The truck that would deliver her cake exists because an international network of manufacturers and parts suppliers employ millions who do nothing BUT manipulate nature.
And I’m sure this daughter would understand and take such wonderful moral insight with her to the next generation.
Because everyone knows the alternative was only, and nothing but, sentiment.
SO TOUCHING MY DAD AND GRANDPA DIED OF THE SAME THING <3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3