Heartache shared to help others (normally I'd post this in choice Ne law is flawed!)

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.omaha.com/article/20110307/NEWS01/703079940#heartache-shared-to-help-others

Published Monday March 7, 2011

By Martha Stoddard
WORLD-HERALD bureau

LINCOLN — Danielle Deaver would have stood on her head in a freezer if it could have saved her baby’s life.

Parents do that kind of thing.

But extreme measures wouldn’t have mattered for the Grand Island, Neb., woman and the child she carried last year.

That baby was doomed when Deaver’s water broke the day after Thanksgiving.

It was a new Nebraska abortion law, though, that turned an unbearable situation into one that Deaver, 34, and her husband, Robb, 40, called torturous.

The Deavers are going public with their story in hopes of helping other families, including those in Iowa and other states where lawmakers are considering following Nebraska’s lead.

FULL story at link.

[Ilsa]

1. What a terribly tragic story. That fetus was allowed

to develop until the pain of dying became more real, more excruciating for the baby, the medical staff, and the parents and relatives. And the anti-choice extremists seem to think this horrible situation, with two parents watching their baby die, is okay. They don't realize the trauma that something like this creates. Or that the mother has been delayed in her healing from this pregnancy before she can try again, if she would ever want to try again.

I wish the parents had been able to go to a state with a more compassionate termination law. I'm not sure why they didn't.

[gadjitfreek]

2. Some of these lawmakers

should have been aborted before they could grow up to be a menace to real, living people...about whom they don't care one whit. Unless they have money, of course.

[himynameiss3an]

3. Tragic. Thank you for sharing.

Such a tragic and hurtful story. Yet it shows the complexity which goes into making that hard choice, considering all of the variables of fetal or mother health. Nebraska's legislation is absurd. I am infuriated. Yet I am more so saddened. I just hope no other family has to go through what the Deaver family had to. But with such unjust legislation, it seems inevitable.

[Ilsa]

5. Hello! Welcome to DU. nt

[xchrom]

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