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The story began in early 2017, when Abigail Piland was born without any obvious problems. But when the midwife who helped deliver her checked back the next day, Abigail didn’t look healthy. The midwife told mother Rachel Piland to take the child to a hospital because the baby “could suffer brain damage or die if not properly cared for.”

Rachel refused, insisting “God makes no mistakes.”

Days later, Abigail was dead. (Rachel and her husband Joshua then prayed for Abigail’s resurrection. Surprise: That didn’t work, either.)

A medical examiner later attributed the death to “unconjugated hyperbilirubinemia and kernicterus,” both jaundice-related problems that were treatable. Abigail never had the chance to see a doctor when blood was coming out of her mouth, or when she wasn’t eating, or when her skin became further discolored. All because her parents put more trust in God than someone who could actually help.

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[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 20 points 19 hours ago (23 children)

Is it a good time to discuss parenting licence?

[–] khannie@lemmy.world 33 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

Sounds like a way to prevent "undesirable" people from having children. Just so, so wide open to abuse.

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 6 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Yea I don't really believe in its applicability too but doesn't prevent me from wishing it in a more "ideal" form despite being very dangerously parallel to eugenics. It is just hard to think of anything else when you read a news about a baby dying while vomiting blood.

But about the topic of abuse, everything is open to abuse by billionaires including law, but we still have them.

[–] arrow74@lemmy.zip 9 points 14 hours ago

Honestly the eugenics issues aside the idea of the state regulating one of the most basic facets of humanity disgusts me.

What does that look like, forced birth control, forced abstinence, forced abortions? Sounds like a dystopian hell

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