Religion & Beliefs
The Miracle of the Undead Baby…Who Died
By Tamar Fox / August 22, 2008
In a story that will likely be featured in pro-life literature for years to come, a baby that had been pronounced dead began breathing and showing vital signs hours later in Nahariya, Israel. A baby breathing hours after being pronounced dead—it’s a pro-life activist’s wet dream.
The baby’s mother was five months pregnant when tests showed that there was intrauterine bleeding, and that her fetus had no pulse. Doctors then initiated what’s being called a “second trimester termination procedure” the baby was delivered and pronounced dead. The baby was then sent to a cryogenics lab where she was put in a refrigerator, and five hours later, when the baby’s father asked to see it, doctors found that the baby showed signs of spontaneously breathing. She was rushed to the neonatal intensive care unit, but unfortunately she wasn’t able to survive for even 24 hours. Presumably this time, when doctors pronounced the baby dead they checked a little more thoroughly.
Here in America, pro-lifers are being forced to make a tough decision in the upcoming Presidential election, and pparently neither candidate has convinced hardliners that he’s the best choice.
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She WASN'T poking fun, at anything. BUT it WAS tasteless to politicize this loss. HOWEVER - nobody thinks about the FEAR Tamar lives with, which produced this admitedly tasteless policiticizing. The men are all having a nice day, while Tamar (and the thousands like her) is not married, and lives in terror of any pull-back of Roe v Wade. It is a good bet that Tamar is not married because nobody has asked her, (referencing her only as a TYPE of charming, educated, young lady, and there are thousands, not at all as someone without appeal. She has plenty of appeal. Just look at her photo. They are ALL cute and smart. But nobody WILL ask her, or the others. Not in today's climate. Not in today's economy. Which climate does not shield her, either. This is not the Middle Ages, and Tamar does not live in a picturesque hundred-foot tower with a moat. She is vulnerable.
So, all she's GOT is Roe v. Wade! And that is all she is GOING TO GET. She has a RIGHT to be scared! Her utter tasteless has to viewed against that background.
Yeah, I really don't see what's offensive about what Tamar wrote. I'm sure that random pro-lifers will find curious ways of using this story to their advantage, maybe even throw in some digs about the (I think undervalued) stem-cell research groups in Israel too. Having within watched my father, grandfather, and a few other relatives die over the past few years, I've dealt with a great deal of death, but I really don't understand the obsessive "extra" sensitivity about subjects like infant mortality. Premature birth, infant deaths, and abortions are widespread in nature and among humanity. To point it out without breaking into tears is hardly cynical.Â
 Of course, it could be my cynical Philly coldness bleeding through…oh, and Max (and whoever else wants Jesus performing alchemy on their vital organs) that verse – Ezekiel 36:26 – you're misquoting has nothing to with Jesus. Â
I'm shocked by this: "But the dulling of heart and the sharpening of the written tonge means
only one thing; that you probably need Jesus to turn your heart of
stone into one of flesh".
…What are you asking for, Max? For Tamar to waste her time bemoaning the valuable loss of a baby's life. Babies die all the time. It sucks. I'm sorry.
As for "preemie" I don't know what's so offensive about that. Is it offensive here: http://www.preemie.com/ ?
you wrote:Undead Preemie: didn't survive"
PREEMIE??? –
Am i the only one that is shocked by this ?
failing to feel, to empathise, to become so coldly blase about death, (particularly a death of a baby), about life, points to a very deep sickness. It may be a fashionable psychological malaise that is prevalent in these parts, one that you fail to even notice in the intoxicating fumes of your own clever cynical New York effluence . But the dulling of heart and the sharpening of the written tonge means only one thing; that you probably need Jesus to turn your heart of stone into one of flesh.
Perhaps a follow-up as to the specific point you were trying to make would be in order… the facts of the case seem not to be at issue: they thought the baby was dead; they induced labor; sent the baby to the morgue; the baby then turned out not to have been dead (notwithstanding 5 hours in a freezer); the baby then died. From this, what conclusions would you like us to draw?
Yes. I too am sickened by .. Whatever it is that Tamar is doing that is sickening. It's just sickening, whatever it is.Â
if you would have, a dead baby would not be the subject of your protopolitical drone, moreover, fully grown people are pronounced dead and come back to life – it's not uncommon. there is something sickening about your use of a dead baby to further your – whatever you call this that you do here on jewcy.
Why is this post on jewcy? So that someone can write a lame post on abortion politics?
With 5 billion people on the planet you can find a nut somewhere who will believe just about anything. But that would really be something–letting the mother die of sepsis rather than get the dead fetus out of her.Â
–Z
Nothing more, nothing less.
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Born into this world alive, no other way around it.
I don't doubt that people with strong political convictions may use creative interpretations of current events to promote whatever agenda they have. But I don't see how this relates to elective abortion at all. Even the most extreme pro-life people don't oppose abortion when the fetus is thought to be dead (or if labor needs to be induced to protect a fetus in dire need of extra-uterine medical care).Â
The whole point of being pro-life is you don't want to kill a living fetus.
–Z
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