A few years ago , I was being interviewed at the christian university when I was posed with a problem. "If you were a doctor who has to tell a pregnant woman who is near term that according to the medical tests we did, letting her pregnancy proceed to term would imperil her life , what would I do"
My peers came up with a lot of paths which broadly fell into the following classes - Tell her and leave the choice up to her, tell them nothing and pray for them , take proactive actions to end the pregnancy and justify it as medically necessary. I distinctly remember an interesting question someone asked the moderator - "Is it a Boy or a Girl? " - a reflection of the Asian psyche which places some weight behind survival of the male progeny.
I argued for telling the family but protecting the life of the mother even at the cost of the child's as the mother can possibly be blessed with more children and the loss of her life may deprive more than one person of important people of their lives because she is also a wife,daughter,sister and friend.
I throw the question open to anyone who might care to answer - leave me a comment
P.S: I was reminded of this incident when I drove past a group of people picketing a family planning center here
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