Something to think about...
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This is an episode on this TV series Boston Public shown on TCS 5 on Wednesday after midnight.
A female student, Melissa 16, fell down the stairs in school. She told her teacher, Ronnie, she was careless. Melissa was sent to the hospital to be checked for concussion and her injured arm. Another student, Ferris, came forward and told Ronnie he suspect that Melissa threw herself down the stairs trying to kill/hurt herself.
At the hospital, Ronnie discovered that that Melissa was pregnant (five months). She questioned Melissa's parents. They acknowledged that they knew about the pregnancy. It was Melissa's boyfriend who made her pregnant and she wants to keep the child. Ronnie told them that Melissa's attempt at aborting the child (by injuring herself). They told her they would talk to her about it.
The next day Ronnie happened to see Melissa in a heated discussion with a male student, Jim. Ronnie later questioned Jim about Melissa's condition. Jim told her he was not the father of the child because he never had sex with Melissa before. He suspected that the child was Melissa's father's. Ronnie confronted Melissa about this.
Melissa confessed that the child she was carrying was her father's. She was the surrogate mother for the fertilized embryo implanted in her womb. Ronnie reported this to the principal, Steven, whom then called the parents in for a meeting. They admitted to Melissa's confession.
The fetus inside of Melissa's was through the selection of the best DNA matching (in order to provide a donor kidney) of the mother's embryo and father's sperm. This is because Melissa and her father's kidneys is not a match to the mother. As the mother's condition does not allow her to be pregnant as it will further endanger her life, they had not choice but to ask Melissa to be the surrogate mother.
Ronnie was angry with the parents for forcing upon their own child this responsibility of saving her own mother through the above method. Not sure of the stand in this matter, the school has to report this to Social Services which promptly removed Melissa from her parents and placed her in a foster home.
Ronnie regretted her decision, blaming that she has condemned Melissa's life. Social Service just went through Melissa's case by the laws and did not give her special consideration.
Questions
1) Would you as a parent allow your teenage daughter to do this in order to save your spouse, her parent?
2) Would you get pregnant just to harvest the organs once the baby is born?
3) Is a fetus a sentient life? Does it have to have rights as a person? -
. She was the surrogate mother for the fertilized embryo implanted in her womb\
wat does tat means???
anyway i tink the melissa future gone liao
hw can her parents treat her lidat
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i think the teacher really got not much iq and eq.stupid ass.Got the
whole family in more problems.I wonder if the authories will give
melissa's baby up for adoption or what.And then will the dad be
charged?And now mum's kidney is failing.AIyo.The teacher donno
how to think issit.Now contribute more trouble for the already
problem family.She should respect that it's their only way of saving
the mother.By getting melissa to have a baby.And now?All gone
liaoz lors..... -
If i am the parent of Melissa, I would not do such a thing to her cause if i am a parent, i would want my child to be happy and let no one hurt my child.
Melissa's parents are really selfish. Correct, they needed a liver to save a life but by sacrificing another life to save one, I do not think that is correct. Besides, if they really love their kid, they would not even think of such an option!!
My grandma always tell me a saying in cantonese, being a parent for 100days, you would have to worry for 99days. Cause no matter what, a parent would want their kids to be happy and well.
Besides, a foetus is a living being. it has a hearbeat and can feel movement and pain too in the mother's womb. Hence it should be given a chance to live and not some toy or stuff. -
I think her parents shouldnt do such things to their daughter. how could they ask the child to be their surrogate mother.
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For Smart Women who need a good laugh and to Guys who can handle it.
ROMANCE MATHEMATICS
Smart man + smart woman = romance
Smart man + dumb woman = affair
Dumb man + smart woman = marriage
Dumb man + dumb woman = pregnancy
OFFICE ARITHMETIC
Smart boss + smart employee = profit
Smart boss + dumb employee = production
Dumb boss + smart employee = promotion
Dumb boss + dumb employee = overtime
SHOPPING MATH
A man will pay $2 for a $1 item he needs.
A woman will pay $1 for a $2 item that she doesn't need.
GENERAL EQUATIONS & STATISTICS
A woman worries about the future until she gets a husband.
A man never worries about the future until he gets a wife.
A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife
can spend.
A successful woman is one who can find such a man.
HAPPINESS
To be happy with a man, you must understand him a lot and
love him a little.
To be happy with a woman, you must love her a lot and not
try to
understand her at all.
LONGEVITY
Married men live longer than single men, but married men
are a lot
more willing to die.
PROPENSITY TO CHANGE
A woman marries a man expecting he will change, but he
doesn't.
A man marries a woman expecting that she won't change, and
she does.
DISCUSSION TECHNIQUE
A woman has the last word in any argument. Anything a man
says after that is the beginning of a new argument.
HOW TO STOP PEOPLE FROM BUGGING YOU ABOUT GETTING MARRIED:
Old aunts used to come up to me at weddings, poking me in
the ribs and cackling, telling me, "You're next." They
stopped after I started doing the same thing to them at
funerals. -
Originally posted by jAnY:
hur? why u post here?
For Smart Women who need a good laugh and to Guys who can handle it.
[b]ROMANCE MATHEMATICS
Smart man + smart woman = romance
Smart man + dumb woman = affair
Dumb man + smart woman = marriage
Dumb man + dumb woman = pregnancy
OFFICE ARITHMETIC
Smart boss + smart employee = profit
Smart boss + dumb employee = production
Dumb boss + smart employee = promotion
Dumb boss + dumb employee = overtime
SHOPPING MATH
A man will pay $2 for a $1 item he needs.
A woman will pay $1 for a $2 item that she doesn't need.
GENERAL EQUATIONS & STATISTICS
A woman worries about the future until she gets a husband.
A man never worries about the future until he gets a wife.
A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife
can spend.
A successful woman is one who can find such a man.
HAPPINESS
To be happy with a man, you must understand him a lot and
love him a little.
To be happy with a woman, you must love her a lot and not
try to
understand her at all.
LONGEVITY
Married men live longer than single men, but married men
are a lot
more willing to die.
PROPENSITY TO CHANGE
A woman marries a man expecting he will change, but he
doesn't.
A man marries a woman expecting that she won't change, and
she does.
DISCUSSION TECHNIQUE
A woman has the last word in any argument. Anything a man
says after that is the beginning of a new argument.
HOW TO STOP PEOPLE FROM BUGGING YOU ABOUT GETTING MARRIED:
Old aunts used to come up to me at weddings, poking me in
the ribs and cackling, telling me, "You're next." They
stopped after I started doing the same thing to them at
funerals.
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y not.. a fruit for thought...though a joke for laughter
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yeah agree..at least if the above situation happens...you still know how to handle it...kekekekeke