This is one tough mother: Ines Ramirez is the only woman known to have performed a successful Caesarean-section on herself!
The sun had set hours ago. The nearest clinic was 80km away over rough roads, and her husband, her only assistant during a half-dozen previous births, was drinking at a cantina. She had no phone and neither did the cantina.
So at midnight, after 12 hours of constant pain, the petite, 40-year-old mother of six sat down on a low wooden bench. She took several gulps from a bottle of rubbing alcohol, grabbed a 15-cm knife and began to cut.
By the light of a single dim bulb, Ramirez sawed through skin, fat and muscle before reaching inside her uterus and pulling out her baby boy. She says she cut his umbilical cord with a pair of scissors, then passed out.
That was March 5, 2000. Today the baby she delivered, Orlando Ruiz Ramirez, is a rambunctious 4-year-old. And Ines Ramirez is recognised internationally as a modern miracle: She is believed to be the only woman known to have performed a successful Caesarean-section on herself.
Could you imagine what grief she'd be able to lay on that boy when he misbehaves?
Link - Thanks Carelia!
I think making the kid wear that haircut makes them even.
NOTHING compared to the grief I would have been laying on his papa for the past seven years.
And he better not have been lookin' for any since then, either.
Almost...
Do you believe there isn't infanticide and abortion in other parts of the world? Abortion is a better option than leaving babies to die on the street because they can't feed them, or offer them love or shelter. It's not the childbirth that's "inconvenient", it's the lifetime of strife and resentment. No one just cavalierly aborts like it's no big thing. Punishing a woman for either abuse or irresponsibility by making her raise a child she can't cope with is illogical, and unfair to both woman and potential child. That kid grows up to be an adult, sometimes with severe issues because they weren't raised well. As far as I'm concerned, it's anti-choice folks who are a problem (ridiculous that an anti-choicer calls people "human garbage"). I haven't had an abortion, I wouldn't have one myself, but I will defend a girl/woman's right to have one safely, legally, forever. I don't know if you're religious or not, but if God is just, I don't have to worry about it, and neither do you.
This woman is incredibly strong and it's a wonder she didn't bleed to death. Cute kid, too. Wonder if they had anymore after him.
Pro Choice IS Pro Life in my opinion :)
I won't get into an argument over the morality of abortion, but a couple of your statements made little sense.
1. You said - "No one aborts to avoid childbirth."
That's part of it, but mostly it's to avoid the hassle of being pregnant.
2. Your comment "It’s not the childbirth that’s 'inconvenient', it’s the lifetime of strife and resentment." is logically unsupportable. If that were the main reason, there would be lots of babies up for adoption and few aborted ones.
And can we go back to the rubbing alcohol thing for a second? How would that help with what she was about to do? Wouldn't it make her more sick than help her with the pain? Did she decide she'd rather be blind while she was operating?
Thanks for sidetracking the comments from what would have turned into another ugly ethical/morality/religious battle. Which unfortunately we have seen quite a lot recently on the site.
Now getting back to the story...
And of course this woman will definitely lay down the law when he kid goes something wrong. Heck, my Mom berates me with the, "I've carried you for 9 months you will respect my authority!" I can't imagine what this kids Mom will do,"I carried you for 9 months AND cut my belly open to give birth to you!"