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I think, outside of a context that brings other complications into the equation, I'd vote for the woman and not the child to be saved. As long as you can have other children later, I think the more important relationship, in the case of an unborn child, is between the mother and the father.
Since I have never had children, my opinion can only be a rational one.
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Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.
Fernando Pessoa, 1918
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