Medical Ethical Case Study: Mrs. Noble And Abortion

In this medical ethical case study, there are two high-class parents with two normal children. Let’s call the family the Noble family. Mrs. Noble gave birth to a premature boy in the late fall of 1963. After the child was born, Mrs. Noble immediately and independently made a decision to not keep the child as soon as the diagnosed her newborn’s monogoloid (Down syndrome). Once the decision was final, the hospital did not attempt to override the decision or seek court order. Soon after, the child was separated into another room and was left for 11 days with no food. My purpose for gathering the information about Mr. and Mrs. Noble is to analyze her critical dilemma between keeping her child and having an abortion. Through the process of analyzing

Noble did not show any love, justice or respect towards her newborn child. She did not love a baby that was born into the world because she was too busy focused on the baby’s condition and the best for her family, instead of the child itself. Justice was not shown in her final decision. The child did not deserve to be left alone and starve to death. The child had no choice or voice to influence the mother. The decision may be fair for the mother but not for the rest of the family and the people at the hospital. The children at home missed out on having another sibling; the nurses and doctors had to isolate an innocent child in a room to starve and wait for its death. Mrs. Noble was not respectful in choosing not to keep the child because of its diagnosis. There is a lack of love and justice between the mother and the newborn, as well as a lack of respect shown from the mother to the doctor and

Noble did not directly kill the baby; however, she had the intention. For instance, if a mafia wanted to kill a specific person, he would not pull the trigger himself but send someone to kill that person. Mrs. Noble did exactly that, she allowed someone else do the killing by placing the child alone to starve. She wanted the baby to die but did not want to physically murder the child. She killed the child with her tongue. Proverbs 18:11 (ESV) states, “Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruits.” The tongue has the power to save and kill someone by what we choose to say in life, so Mrs. Noble chose to kill the baby with her words. Morally, Mrs. Noble actions were selfish and wrong for choosing to not let a child live because of its health and the way it was created. 1 Corinthians 12:12-14 (ESV) sates, “Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form one body, so it is with Christ. For we were all baptized by[c] one Spirit so as to form one body—whether Jews or Gentiles, slave or free—and we were all given the one Spirit to drink. Even so the body is not made up of one part but of many.” Everyone is not built the same and made to do the same thing. Everyone is build for different reasons. The newborn maybe different and have some challenges, but at least the child will be a little more joyful than everyone else. Mrs. Noble