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Should the Bubble Boy's Parents have faced any legal repercussions?
Posted on 6/2/20 at 9:56 pm
Posted on 6/2/20 at 9:56 pm
Or are couples free to do as they please even if they are told there's a high likehood that they will have a child who will suffer dramatically.
Vetter's parents were David Joseph Vetter, Jr. and Carol Ann Vetter. Their first son, David Joseph Vetter III, was also born with SCID and died at 7 months of age.
Doctors advised them that if they were to have another child, it would be a 50% chance the child would suffer from the same affliction.
The Vetter's decided to have another child. And also named him David. The doctor's told them that the only way a child could survive this is to put them into a sterile environment until a bone marrow match might occur and offer hope.
After being placed in the sterile chamber, Vetter was touched only through special plastic gloves attached to the walls of the chamber.
He spent 12 years in this prison until they tried a bone marrow transplant from his sister. The marrow was infected with a virus and he died 12 days later.
The parents later divorced.
David Vetter's psychologist later wrote a book:
Bursting the Bubble: The Tortured Life and Untimely Death of David Vetter
I mean adopt. They wanted to replace their son so bad, they threw caution to the wind and gave the second son the same name as the first...and then put him through 12 years in a plastic prison.
We say the unborn have rights; what about the unborn-unborn? To make a decision that is a flip of the coin to put a kid through hell only to die young is unconscionable.
Vetter's parents were David Joseph Vetter, Jr. and Carol Ann Vetter. Their first son, David Joseph Vetter III, was also born with SCID and died at 7 months of age.
Doctors advised them that if they were to have another child, it would be a 50% chance the child would suffer from the same affliction.
The Vetter's decided to have another child. And also named him David. The doctor's told them that the only way a child could survive this is to put them into a sterile environment until a bone marrow match might occur and offer hope.
After being placed in the sterile chamber, Vetter was touched only through special plastic gloves attached to the walls of the chamber.
He spent 12 years in this prison until they tried a bone marrow transplant from his sister. The marrow was infected with a virus and he died 12 days later.
The parents later divorced.
David Vetter's psychologist later wrote a book:
Bursting the Bubble: The Tortured Life and Untimely Death of David Vetter
I mean adopt. They wanted to replace their son so bad, they threw caution to the wind and gave the second son the same name as the first...and then put him through 12 years in a plastic prison.
We say the unborn have rights; what about the unborn-unborn? To make a decision that is a flip of the coin to put a kid through hell only to die young is unconscionable.
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