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  What happens with a JW commits adultery and his wife is pregnant

  by Jessc8877 in

  1. watchtower
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  im not a jw but my recently x boyfriend is.

  he and were dating for the past 6 years.

  i found out he had gotten married to a jw in the last 1and a half of our relationship.

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  FlyingHighNow

  Walk away. Don't interfere with his marriage. Let someone else be the homewrecker. It will probably backfire right into your face. YOu would be the messenger, as well as the other woman. You can't win. Chalk it up to experience. Fix your broken picker (boyfriend partner picker) and gracefully move on. I've seen several messengers get shot. And I've seen the "other woman" really mess things up for her self royally. There is no dignity in telling someone's wife you've had an affair with her husband, even if he didn't tell you that he was married, in the first place.
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  Dead pregnant woman forced to stay on life support, due to TX State law

  by adamah in

  1. social
  2. current

  there's an interesting medicolegal issue arising out of tx, a pregnant women who suffered a pulmonary embolism in november and died (when she was 14 weeks pregnant).. however, the body has been kept on life-support all this time (against her and her husband's wishes), due to an ambiguous tx state law (tex hs.

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  166.049) which actually blocks the ability of the patient and family to decide:.

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  FlyingHighNow

  It is much cheaper for the hospital just to offer to settle without admitting guilt. It will cost them a lot less.
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  Dead pregnant woman forced to stay on life support, due to TX State law

  by adamah in

  1. social
  2. current

  there's an interesting medicolegal issue arising out of tx, a pregnant women who suffered a pulmonary embolism in november and died (when she was 14 weeks pregnant).. however, the body has been kept on life-support all this time (against her and her husband's wishes), due to an ambiguous tx state law (tex hs.

  code ann.

  166.049) which actually blocks the ability of the patient and family to decide:.

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  FlyingHighNow

  The hospital will offer the family a settlement and the family will likely hire a lawyer to guide them through the settlement. Unless the hospital clearly thinks they did nothing to contribute to the girl's death.
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  Dead pregnant woman forced to stay on life support, due to TX State law

  by adamah in

  1. social
  2. current

  there's an interesting medicolegal issue arising out of tx, a pregnant women who suffered a pulmonary embolism in november and died (when she was 14 weeks pregnant).. however, the body has been kept on life-support all this time (against her and her husband's wishes), due to an ambiguous tx state law (tex hs.

  code ann.

  166.049) which actually blocks the ability of the patient and family to decide:.

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  FlyingHighNow

  Mostly, I don't think, "That is so Texas." I usually think, that is so inside the box or smacks of extreme fundamentlist thinking.

  I was watching a show about William McCoy, the famed bootlegger of prohibition. I never knew that at the time Americans consumed 8 times the alcohol that they do today. It was such a problem that husbands were staying drunk all of the time and women staying drunk and society was falling apart. Makes me think a lot of the drug issues America faces today. So the temperance movement had many groups behind it, including one of society's minorities which was made up of fundamentalists, trying to stop the drunkeness. I didn't realize that the drinking issues were so bad at the time. I guess I figured it only had a religious basis to it: prohibition. Of course prohibition created extreme problems that were pretty bad in and of themselves, like organized crime becoming so powerful. One good side effect was that people do not drink so much now. The bad thing is that drugs were made illegal and they took over where the extreme drinking left off.

  My reason for bringing up the documentary about prohibition is this: they pointed out that it was a minority of society, a tail who wagged the dog. The wishes of a small percent, getting their way to manhandle the majority into making the changes they wanted. It isn't different today. America is not made up of a majority of funadamentalists. But they understood in the times of America's widespread drunkeness, they could wield political power and they haven't forgotten that lesson. If you look at a presidential election map, most big cities and the counties around them vote democrat. That is where the majority of Americans live, either in the cities or areas right around them. The rural counties tend to vote GOP. Gerrymandering of congressional districts has given the GOP too much power in the house of reps. This is true big time in Texas. It's not a moral majority. It's a moral minority who is very sligh and never gives up in the pursuit of getting what they want.

  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tag/texas-gerrymandering
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  Dead pregnant woman forced to stay on life support, due to TX State law

  by adamah in

  1. social
  2. current

  there's an interesting medicolegal issue arising out of tx, a pregnant women who suffered a pulmonary embolism in november and died (when she was 14 weeks pregnant).. however, the body has been kept on life-support all this time (against her and her husband's wishes), due to an ambiguous tx state law (tex hs.

  code ann.

  166.049) which actually blocks the ability of the patient and family to decide:.

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  FlyingHighNow

  You ever been to TX, FHN? (I was born in Dallas, and spent many years there when stationed in the military.)

  Let's see, have I been to Texas? Well, yes, Adam, I have. I've been there and lived there. Houston, where I gave birth to a daughter. Andrews, way out west in the oil country, where I spent the first part of my second marriage. Pampa, where my kids and I spent a good part of the summer with my sister and her husband, way up, north of Amarillo. Been all over the state, east to west and north to south, including down to Ft. Davis and on to Big Bend for vacations. The last time I made it into Texas, it was 2011.

  By the way, I know some pretty cool people from Texas. They aren't all meathead cowboys. They find the mhcb's and g's kind of bewildering at times. Texas, the only place I've lived where a horse can drop dead in your front yard and the city tell you that even though it's not your horse, you gotta get the thing disposed of because it died just outside of the city right of way.
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  Dead pregnant woman forced to stay on life support, due to TX State law

  by adamah in

  1. social
  2. current

  there's an interesting medicolegal issue arising out of tx, a pregnant women who suffered a pulmonary embolism in november and died (when she was 14 weeks pregnant).. however, the body has been kept on life-support all this time (against her and her husband's wishes), due to an ambiguous tx state law (tex hs.

  code ann.

  166.049) which actually blocks the ability of the patient and family to decide:.

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  FlyingHighNow

  Yeah, Adam, I a theist, but I dont believe in original sin or that the Bible and Jesus areit or else. For me, Im not looking at this as black.and.white, this Texas thing. I wouldnt. want.to.be.inthe.shoes.of.either side.. Posting with phone, sorry for typos.
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  Dead pregnant woman forced to stay on life support, due to TX State law

  by adamah in

  1. social
  2. current

  there's an interesting medicolegal issue arising out of tx, a pregnant women who suffered a pulmonary embolism in november and died (when she was 14 weeks pregnant).. however, the body has been kept on life-support all this time (against her and her husband's wishes), due to an ambiguous tx state law (tex hs.

  code ann.

  166.049) which actually blocks the ability of the patient and family to decide:.

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  FlyingHighNow

  So you're getting the point, FHN, as it's NOT an abortion issue, but an issue of whether or not individuals have the right to determine what happens to their own bodies, while alive and after death. She didn't leave her wishes in writing, but it wouldn't have done ANY GOOD anyway, since the State law overrides. Her husband is next-of-kin, and has the right to make healthcare decisions, but once again, State law overrides, and JPS is seemingly misinterpreting the law, as described by Dr Fine above.

  I got the point that this has nothing to do with abortion from the time I heard about it. That's why when people act like this is a religious issue, it just doesn't make sense.

  I was thinking about something today. It would make more sense to me for an atheist to want to protect the sanctity of the life of the unborn, than a theist. If you believe this is your only chance at life, no heaven, not reincarnation, no after life of any kind, then it becomes a much bigger loss if your mother chooses to end her pregnancy and your only chance to live outside her womb. For those of us who don't believe that this is your only life. For those of us who don't believe an unborn loses any chance to live outside, if the pregnancy ends, it's not a finite issue.
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  Dead pregnant woman forced to stay on life support, due to TX State law

  by adamah in

  1. social
  2. current

  there's an interesting medicolegal issue arising out of tx, a pregnant women who suffered a pulmonary embolism in november and died (when she was 14 weeks pregnant).. however, the body has been kept on life-support all this time (against her and her husband's wishes), due to an ambiguous tx state law (tex hs.

  code ann.

  166.049) which actually blocks the ability of the patient and family to decide:.

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  FlyingHighNow

  This is not an abortion issue, folks. I'm pro-choice. I can see your concerns as to the similarity, though. We don't know what the mother's wishes in this particular instance would be.
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  Dead pregnant woman forced to stay on life support, due to TX State law

  by adamah in

  1. social
  2. current

  there's an interesting medicolegal issue arising out of tx, a pregnant women who suffered a pulmonary embolism in november and died (when she was 14 weeks pregnant).. however, the body has been kept on life-support all this time (against her and her husband's wishes), due to an ambiguous tx state law (tex hs.

  code ann.

  166.049) which actually blocks the ability of the patient and family to decide:.

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  FlyingHighNow

  And where did this concept of the fetus deserving a right to live come from, anyway? It SURE isn't found in the Bible....

  This question is not religious. You are alive because you made it to full gestation, were born and continued living. No one stopped your mother's pregnancy with you, before you were viable. I'm assuming you're glad you're here. Whether you're an atheist or thiest, you have to acknowledge that you wouldn't be here if you hadn't been born alive and viable. So there comes in the question of whether an unborn child has any rights to the chance of viability or to develop to full gestation and life beyond. Don't assume that everyone who thinks the child does have rights, bases this decision on religion.
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  Dead pregnant woman forced to stay on life support, due to TX State law

  by adamah in

  1. social
  2. current

  there's an interesting medicolegal issue arising out of tx, a pregnant women who suffered a pulmonary embolism in november and died (when she was 14 weeks pregnant).. however, the body has been kept on life-support all this time (against her and her husband's wishes), due to an ambiguous tx state law (tex hs.

  code ann.

  166.049) which actually blocks the ability of the patient and family to decide:.

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  FlyingHighNow

  Texas is not completely GOP, though one of my friends, who is a priest and a democrat, says he keeps his political views to himself because his town "Stinks with republicans".

  I don't know why people are making this about religion. Has the hospital really made this about religion?