Bible-Thumping Pastor Believes Women Shouldn't Interfere with 'God's Will' In Pregnancy--Unless

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http://www.alternet.org/tea-party-and-right/controversial-bible-thumping-pastors-wife-reveals-she-cut-one-twin-save-life

Bible-Thumping Pastor Believes Women Shouldn't Interfere with 'God's Will' In Pregnancy--Unless it's His Own Wife, That Is



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In the case of the Andersons, the problem was twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome, a condition striking about 1 in 1000 pregnancies. When a fertilized egg splits into identical twins, the separation is often incomplete. Many identical twins share a placenta. In twin-to-twin transfusion, one is literally parasitic on the other, garnering the majority of the placenta and blood flow, so much so that the parasitic twin may die from excess while the other dwindles away. Untreated, most die, occasionally taking a mother with them.

Christian patriarchs like Anderson pound the pulpit about women thwarting God’s perfect plan, but when push comes to shove in the pregnancy and delivery process, normal human emotions often win out: fear, love and the yearning for children who are healthy and happy. Anderson and his wife did their homework and she underwent a series of procedures aimed at maximizing the likelihood of a healthy outcome. The procedure that ultimately saved one twin — a laser ablation that severed their connection — also killed the weaker one, which was left with insufficient blood flow.

Mrs. Anderson’s blog chronicles the heartfelt anguish of a mother trying to make the best decisions possible for her children within the constraints of her spiritual worldview. Ironically, it also documents her multiple tirades against families with other worldviews struggling to make similarly anguishing decisions. When a procedure in Australia turned tragic — doctors inadvertently terminated the healthy twin instead of the one that was unviable — she railed not about the mistake but about the “monsters” who would dare to halt an unhealthy pregnancy. When a woman in South Africa spontaneously miscarried her twins after extensive fertility treatment, Mrs. Anderson derided her grief as a small matter compared to the moral horror of fertility treatment itself.

Let it be said that the weaker Anderson twin almost certainly would have died anyway. But this, ironically, is a justification that abortion opponents have dismissed out of hand in cases like that of former Seattle Council member, Judy Nicastro. Nicastro wrote in the New York Times about her anguishing second-trimester decision to end the life of a defective twin who would have suffocated at birth. Commenters at Life Site News called Nicastro “sick” and accused her of killing her child “for her convenience.” And they used Anderson’s wife's word, “monster.”

[AllyCat]

1. Those rules are for someone else, not them. N/t

[riqster]

2. Kick.

What a bloody hypocrite.

[sorefeet]

3. I know a girl who had

an abortion at 18 and she said God forgave her. But all abortions after hers will go to hell.

[Brickbat]

4. People who lack empathy and change their minds about things only after tragedy strikes are pretty

bad. People who are rank hypocrites like this are even worse.

[BrotherIvan]

5. These people are all insane

I cannot think of another explanation for this much dissonance.