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I'm glad to see that this thread has been revived, since my thoughts on the matter have changed. In any case, I see the proposed scenario as a major tragedy which would have a large effect on the family involved.
One of my cousins has an ongoing and a seemingly incurable case of MRSA. She recently became pregnant - with twins. We all knew that it would be a high-risk pregnancy. Well, sure enough the MRSA spread to the fetuses. One of them was infected badly and died in the womb. She decided to have a surgery to remove the one so there would be less of a risk of the MRSA spreading to the other. During the surgery, things went wrong. She lost a lot of blood and her life was on the line. By the end, her life was saved but both of her potential children were lost. With them gone, she was able to undergo a substantial antibiotic regime, with the hope of saving her life as well. This is a woman who struggled with infertility issues for most of her adult life, is in her late 30's, and does not necessarily plan on having any children again in the future. Her life is valuable.
In my cousin's case, her life was at risk, but so were the lives of her two unborn children. In our family, there was less emotional attachment to the "potentials"than to the mother. There would have been a lot of broken hearts if it had gone another way, and the lives of her children would have been tumultuous and uncertain without the presence of their loving mother.
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