“The doctors said they were talking about a matter of hours or a day or two before risking sepsis and both of them might die,” Santorum said. “Obviously, if it was a choice of whether both Karen and the child are going to die or just the child is going to die, I mean it’s a pretty easy call.”
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Karen, a soft-spoken red-haired 37-year-old, said that “ultimately” she would have agreed to intervention for the sake of her other children.
“If the physician came to me and said if we don’t deliver your baby in one hour you will be dead, yeah, I would have to do it,” she said. “But for me, it was at the very end. I would never make a decision like that until all other means had been thoroughly exhausted.” ------------- I guess I was wrong about life of the mother ... he originally supported the Hyde Amendment (rape, incest, life of the mother exceptions) and now does not support abortion for rape or incest. But it sounds as though he supported the Hyde Amendment at all only because it was "common ground" (i.e., pass-able) not because he thought it was the best morally.
Terbutaline was still very widely used at the time the Santorums' baby was born. My twins were born in 94, and at that time about 20 to 30 percent of women in that practice -- NOT just mothers of twins -- were on terbutaline "just in case." So it seemed to me like the kind of thing they'd just automatically throw into the mix in a case like this. (I agree that it doesn't make that much sense, but from what I hear doctors are far more likely to get sued when they fail to do "everything possible," even if they're following the standard of care, than when they do too much.)
The position the babies were in put a lot of pressure on my kidneys (also on my lower spine -- my back looked quite flat, like a man's, and I actually had fewer backaches because I couldn't stand swaybacked), and I had recurrent UTIs and bacteremia, which finally ascended into the kidneys. Not fun. It cleared up incredibly fast once they got the antibiotics into me, though. Bob still talks about how I beat him at Scrabble even when I had contractions and a fever of 104 or something.
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Karen, a soft-spoken red-haired 37-year-old, said that “ultimately” she would have agreed to intervention for the sake of her other children.
“If the physician came to me and said if we don’t deliver your baby in one hour you will be dead, yeah, I would have to do it,” she said. “But for me, it was at the very end. I would never make a decision like that until all other means had been thoroughly exhausted.”
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I guess I was wrong about life of the mother ... he originally supported the Hyde Amendment (rape, incest, life of the mother exceptions) and now does not support abortion for rape or incest. But it sounds as though he supported the Hyde Amendment at all only because it was "common ground" (i.e., pass-able) not because he thought it was the best morally.
Terbutaline was still very widely used at the time the Santorums' baby was born. My twins were born in 94, and at that time about 20 to 30 percent of women in that practice -- NOT just mothers of twins -- were on terbutaline "just in case." So it seemed to me like the kind of thing they'd just automatically throw into the mix in a case like this. (I agree that it doesn't make that much sense, but from what I hear doctors are far more likely to get sued when they fail to do "everything possible," even if they're following the standard of care, than when they do too much.)
The position the babies were in put a lot of pressure on my kidneys (also on my lower spine -- my back looked quite flat, like a man's, and I actually had fewer backaches because I couldn't stand swaybacked), and I had recurrent UTIs and bacteremia, which finally ascended into the kidneys. Not fun. It cleared up incredibly fast once they got the antibiotics into me, though. Bob still talks about how I beat him at Scrabble even when I had contractions and a fever of 104 or something.