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Deciding whether to sustain life "at all costs" is always a tough decision. But it's even more difficult in the case of an infant. In this story, Miles Eddy talks to a mother who recently had to make such a decision, and the medical professionals who helped her during the process.
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Deciding whether to sustain life "at all costs" is always a tough decision. But it's even more difficult in the case of an infant. In this story, Miles Eddy talks to a mother who recently had to make such a decision, and the medical professionals who helped her during the process.
Broadcast History
September 29, 2005. Rebroadcast October 1.
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*** PERINATAL HOSPICE ***
ERIC WHITNEY: Do you believe in being allowed to die a natural death, or should people be kept alive at all costs? Those are tough questions, and they get mixed up into an even tougher dilemma for parents who discover that the child they have conceived has been diagnosed with a terminal illness while still in the womb. Producer Miles Eddy recently spoke with some parents who got bad news about their pregnancy, and to the medical professionals who try to help them get through it.
MILES EDDY: “Janel,” who doesn’t want to use her last name, lives in Southern Colorado. Last spring she was an expectant mother.
JANEL: I’m Janel. We’re expecting our third child who’s born with a fatal heart defect.
EDDY: Janel and her husband went to Denver, where specialists told them that their unborn child had a genetic condition called hypoplastic left heart syndrome,...
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