30 November - Facts stranger than fiction
You know how many times you read of situations in novels and you think 'yeah right, that's so forced, that would never happen, too much of a coincidence' etc? And it's really in the way it's written whether it seems plausible or not because life is full of weird stuff. Like the following.
A while back my friend L. told me about her friend M. who was having a baby after having met some young/er guy in India. She'd gone out there to meet with her boyfriend but that had ended and a one or two off shags had resulted in pregnancy which she was elated about because she was.... 48! Now you'd say great, but chances are foetus will be damaged and so it was. Baby was going to be born with Down's syndrome and no father around (woman was getting council flat only about 2 days before the birth) but apparently she's very spiritual and this was a blessing etc. Now I won't enter into any debate about this but let's just say I'm with Minette Marrin on this, and India Knight can say what she wants. Clearly you can make whatever decision you like about spending the next however many years of your life (and committing your family and society to do the same) in order to cope with a disabled child, but I just think that's what abortion was made possible for. Save everyone the misery. If the baby is born with Downs' or other disability, of course you will take care of him but if they tell you at scan stage that it's deformed or other then you know? Why?
Anyway... this baby was born and ... he was still born. Yoga woman being very spiritual, has taken this in her stride too. It wasn't meant to be. So far the story is not that strange except that her best friend, the week after, died the day after giving birth to a beautiful baby girl in Goa. Friend is western but lived there workng as a masseuse, with her partner. Now what are the chances of that. One lives and loses child, one dies and child lives. And you're friends. But if you took it as the starting poing for a plot it may seem plain odd.
A while back my friend L. told me about her friend M. who was having a baby after having met some young/er guy in India. She'd gone out there to meet with her boyfriend but that had ended and a one or two off shags had resulted in pregnancy which she was elated about because she was.... 48! Now you'd say great, but chances are foetus will be damaged and so it was. Baby was going to be born with Down's syndrome and no father around (woman was getting council flat only about 2 days before the birth) but apparently she's very spiritual and this was a blessing etc. Now I won't enter into any debate about this but let's just say I'm with Minette Marrin on this, and India Knight can say what she wants. Clearly you can make whatever decision you like about spending the next however many years of your life (and committing your family and society to do the same) in order to cope with a disabled child, but I just think that's what abortion was made possible for. Save everyone the misery. If the baby is born with Downs' or other disability, of course you will take care of him but if they tell you at scan stage that it's deformed or other then you know? Why?
Anyway... this baby was born and ... he was still born. Yoga woman being very spiritual, has taken this in her stride too. It wasn't meant to be. So far the story is not that strange except that her best friend, the week after, died the day after giving birth to a beautiful baby girl in Goa. Friend is western but lived there workng as a masseuse, with her partner. Now what are the chances of that. One lives and loses child, one dies and child lives. And you're friends. But if you took it as the starting poing for a plot it may seem plain odd.
posted by Lisa Taylor @ 9:33 AM
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