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ETHICS/WISDOM
On a high school religion test, Jason Torres once
tackled a potential ethical dilemma that asked, "Can you harm an unborn
child in order to save its mother?" That situation was hypothetical, but
now Torres is facing a real life ethical dilemma. His wife Susan lost consciousness
when an undiagnosed brain tumor caused a stroke May 7, 2005. Susan was
carrying the couple's second child when the stroke occurred.
When surgeons performed emergency surgery, they found
cancer had invaded the woman's brain. They have since informed Torres that
Susan's brain functions have stopped. When they determined that Susan would
not recover, officials give Torres the opportunity to disconnect the machines
that are keeping her alive.
Thus far, Torres has refused to have the life support
machines turned off in hopes that she can stay alive another month so that
the baby in her womb can be delivered and have a chance of surviving. Torres
says, "I hate seeing her on those darned machines and I hate using her
as a human carrying case, because she herself is worth so much more. But
Susan really wanted this."
Torres has quit his job as a commercial printing sales
representative and has moved in his wife's hospital room. Though the couple
has health insurance, the hospital stay costs them roughly $7,500 a day.
Susan recently battled pneumonia, and is still fighting a persistent fever,
but Torres holds on to the hope the baby can be born safely. He says, "There's
not a glimmer of doubt in my mind that this is what she would have wanted.
Any chance at all to save the baby, and Susan would have said, 'Let's go
for it.'"
—USA Today, Woman Kept Alive in Hopes of Saving Baby,
June 16, 2005. Illustration by Jim L. Wilson and Jim Sandell.
James 1:4-5 (NIV) "Perseverance must finish its work
so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. [5] If any
of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously to all without
finding fault, and it will be given to him."
ETHICS
In 2012 International Cycling officials stripped Lance
Armstrong of his seven Tour de France titles and banned him for life from
International and US cycling. The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency says he participated
in "most sophisticated, professionalized, and successful doping programme
sport has ever seen." Armstrong was once considered the greatest cyclist
of all time, but now he’s considered the most sophisticated cheater. —Jim
L. Wilson and Abigail Davis
www.cnn.com/2012/10/17/us/lance-armstrong-doping/index.html
1 Corinthians 9:24-25 (HCSB) Don’t you know that the
runners in a stadium all race, but only one receives the prize? Run in
such a way to win the prize. (25) Now everyone who competes exercises self-control
in everything. However, they do it to receive a crown that will fade away,
but we a crown that will never fade away.
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