Life is precious and flippantly regarded when we cannot see this human eye to eye. heart to heart and mother to her own flesh. Women (and the fathers) deal with this loss in many ways; some are burdened later and some immediately. It is something you never forget no matter how hard you try to rationalize the fateful decision.

The least we can do is to make this death as humane as possible for the child and provide good medical care and grief counceling for the mother. We are all God's children and until we resolve to eliminate "convenient abortions" we can at least make the situations the easiest for the child and have the mothers health provided for in a clinically professional way.