The Mehtas who are in the news for submitting a plea in Mumbai high court to abort thier 25 week old baby had thier plea rejected yesterday.
Does it end there? Are such questions or situations of life plain black and white? Is this the end really ? Or is this just the begining ?Who is right here?
The parents, who have only good intentions for a child unborn and wish that they dont want to bring to life a baby who in most porbabilities would be plagued with health issues.?
The Judiciary, Who feels this amounts to Euthanasia and should not be provided as an escape from a situation which would have many medical solutions given the available medical options for people who are born with Congenital heart and other health issues ?
Given that the high court has rejected thier plea, it is all but evident now that the baby will be born. The parents and the world can only pray that it has the least suffering if the poor thing really has to undergo the birth defects but hope that the baby comes out hale and hearty and surprises the world, which some doctors have claimed is a possibiity too.
The most astonishing part would be how would the Baby judge all those who are debating what is right for him/her. As and when he/she grows up to an age where it will start understanding and realising the past it carries even before it were born.
If the child is born healthy or with minimal health problems, which are easily corrected with a pace maker or any other medical marvel. Will it thank the Judicial system for giving it a chance to come into this world and experience it firsthand and will it Hold it against its parents? The hard fact that they tried to abort it and did not want to bring it into this world? That they did not want to give it a chance ? Will relations change? Will there be confrontations?
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God forbid the child is indeed born with many birth defects that life is more of a punishment than a pleasure. Will the judicial system claim reponsibility for the suffering the young one may have to go through? Will the child question or curse them for not having given the right to its parents to have excerised the extreme step they had embarked to take?
I guess no one will ever have the answers. Or maybe there are no answers.
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Yeah there are no answers. Parents will have to bear the consequences of following the right path and subsequently the child will also have to go through it.
But one can only wish that the baby is born with no health problems. And the baby grows up to understand his/her parent had the best intentions when they wanted to abort.
Parents will have to hope for a miracle. And miracles do happen, even in today's world. That's the only way human beings will know that there is something/someone bigger than them!
'when he/she grows up to an age where it will start understanding and realising the past it carries even before it were born.'
exactly what I was thinking of, while watching that news on tv. Vaguely reminded me of the old horror story from schooldays: BlueBoy.
The good that happened out of all this hungama, is that there are people volunteering to provide the baby with the best medical support possible.
I really really believe the baby's born healthy and brave enough to see through life as it comes.
It's high time since we revisited our law and order.With respect to the present conditions,society and changing life we can no longer practice the same guidelines to do justice.I hope people in the authority realize this.
I wish it was left to the family to make a decision.
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