Multiple births and multiple deaths.

[kitchenwitch]

Two out of the six Morrison sextuplets have died.

In the case of the Morrison family (the sextuplets born in Minnesota), six eggs were fertilized after using the drug Follistim. (According to the Morrison family website, the doctors said two mature and two immature/nonviable eggs would be released during that particular cycle, but later said that

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[hermionesmum]

No, absolutely not! The idea of anyone being prosecuted for not following medical advice of any sort is absolutely abhorrent to me. It then ceases to be advice and becomes an order capable of robbing people of their self-determination. I'd very likely have made the same choice, that I had to hand events over to God, I trust him far more than any doctor, and I, personally, could never live with having chosen termination.

Does it make any difference that they were fetuses? That is a harder question. I don't exactly think that parents have a "divine right" to treat their children in any particular way, but I do feel that, in the vast majority of cases, parents do what they and their culture believes is in the best interests of a child, and that does deserve a great deal of respect. There was a post a few weeks ago in here concerning a family's choice to stop chemotherapy for their son who later died. I think that this sort of decision should be left within families.
Many vaccines are too new for the risks associated with them to have been evaluated properly, so I fully understand some families being skeptical about them and opting out.
I think my personal benchmarks is that parents should be judged according to the same standards as doctors, i.e. their actions should cause no harm. If they fall short of doing good, that's life and we have to live with the consequences.

[therealocelot]

I agree with this.

[defaultcrush]

Agreed. I think it leads to a slippery slope about how much control over I have over my own body.