What a fucking dilemma. Pardon my language, but that's the only way I can put it.
Does anybody have any philosphy that helps here? I think I'd have to choose the mother, on the basis that (assumed) I have a trust reletionship with her, and that unlike the baby - I know 100% that she is an independant viable life. The viability and conscious state of the baby is an unknown.
Jumping forward to a position where the baby is three years old - at that later point I don't honestly think I could decide, unless the mother had a strong desire for the child to live in preference.
But if I was in a situation where I had to make a choice - it'd probably haunt me forever.
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