The White Masai Sparknotes

she did try her best. But even so, the baby had died due to malnutrition. The death of

A woman will always have maternal risks during the process of the pregnancy, some might be minor and some might be extremely dangerous. Women decide to take the option of having a late term abortion due to the desperation of overthinking, and health issues that can affect the fetus. If this is the case, a mother and her family can decide who will live, the reason that has to be acknowledged and considered is because the mother’s life is threatened and it can then affect the baby and her equally which leads to a bigger consequence, in (Source A) it is implied that women get abortions due to health issues by stating,

“Become my own person,” led Sara to leave home. She knew if she stayed home at the end of the day she would be forced into an Old Polish World life of what she viewed as misery. Sara wanted a life of education and meaning. Sara wanted to have a change to grow on her own. Mother and her sister each lived through Father and their own husband I some way even when they knew it hurt

She began to scream into the phone, into the roaring. She cried out, she cried for her mother, she felt her breath start jerking back and forth in her lungs as if it were something Arnold Friend was stabbing her with again and again with no tenderness. A noisy sorrowful wailing rose all about her and she was locked inside it the way she was locked inside this house. After a while she could hear again. She was sitting on the floor with her wet back against the wall. Here we finally realize that all her fears were coming true and he life was coming to an end and there was no way of her stopping it. In these moments Connie realized all that these were her last moment and the first thought was of her family and how she thought of all the time she wished. "My sweet little blue-eyed girl," he said in a half-sung sigh that had nothing to do with her brown eyes but was taken up just the same by the vast sunlit reaches of the land behind him and on all sides of him—so much land that Connie had never seen before and did not recognize except to know that she was

In some ethical and legal respects a pregnant woman and her fetus can be considered separate. Both the woman and the fetus are ordinarily affected by the well-being of one another for as long as each of them live. The ethical and legal issues are challenged deeply in cases where the well-being of the fetus and the mother appear to be in conflict. Our society struggles with identifying cases where the pregnant woman’s interests and/or behaviors might put her fetus at risk. Criminal and/or civil commitments should be used to bar pregnant women from exposing their fetuses to risk.

Mary Anne Warren (p.195-196) points out the exceptional circumstances of pregnancy; where one human is entirely biologically reliant on another and where it is impossible for complete personhood rights to not be in conflict between the foetus and the mother. Consider the following case. A mother and an expecting mother both express an intent to kill their child or unborn child respectively. Services are available to take the postnatal children from their mother without affecting her body. Yet to protect the foetus, one would have to imprison the mother until birth, or worse, force a caesarean on her. Warren (193) points out that forced caesareans are not merely a hypothetical

She is able to overcome her tribulation by accepting it and realizing these events will improve her future. Geneva, Saranell's mother, has recently passed away and the grief is crushing Saranell. “She gazed up at it, and the aloneness of the dark hills merging with the dark sky began to crush her. Tears ran from the corners of her eyes” (Carr 154). Sadness has overtaken Saranell.

She walks into the living room where all her family was sitting, and they all look at her and ask “what’s the news?”. She was very disappointed in herself she thought how could she let it happen? she was too young at 16, she didn’t have a job, and she didn’t even know if the father was going to be there for her. The family looked concerned as she was about to burst into tears, her eyes filled with sadness, and then she said “I'm pregnant”. They all looked at her in disappointment, they thought she was going to be the one to pursue her dreams of becoming a nurse, to actually have a degree, but even though they were disappointed in her they knew that they had to help her raise the baby. She felt upset she didn’t know how she was going to do it while still going to school, she still had two more years ahead, and she was due late May. Even though she had her family who was supporting her she still had to take responsibility for her actions, she had decided that she would have to drop out of school, and start working to take care of her upcoming baby.

Marquis uses this argument when specifically referring to abortion and the value of it, not specifically, in regards to the one circumstance where the mothers life is in jeopardy. This is not to

Nevertheless, this dilemma has made me more conscious of my own emotional responses. I could feel myself becoming more sympathetic towards the mother’s plight to protect her off-spring and partner. Without this awareness, I am open to becoming influenced by the mother’s version of events, rather than thinking holistically and looking at ‘the bigger picture’ and the numerous factors that contribute to the difficulties that the child is

A women shouldn't have to get rid of her child because she can’t afford to keep it there need to be better systems in place to prevent this from happening. This is another example of death through flight because the mother’s give their babies to death because they feel it will be better than having the baby

The next minor claim Willis presents is that the life of an unborn child is less valuable than that of a woman who already has a history and has experienced life. According to Willis, a woman has more worth because she has “feelings, self-consciousness, a history, social ties” (2005, p. 515). By having to carry a baby, all of these important parts of her life are in jeopardy of being harmed (Willis, 2005). The concern Willis expresses for a woman’s life changing

This baby should have had a chance to live and if she couldn’t see that then she was making the wrong decision by walking into the swamp and never coming out. In paragraph 45 it states “She disappeared among the reeds and willows that grew thick along the banks of the deep, sluggish bayou; and she did not come back again.”. This baby’s life was in her hands and she just threw it away like it was garbage. If she didn’t want to live that bad then she should of at least gave her baby a fighting chance at life. In society today murder is cruel and it is frowned

She does not want to kill her unborn child but feels like there is no other

A woman that is distressed suffers physiological harm. Not being unable to cope with this process they soon turn to drugs and alcohol to numb the pain; putting their life at stake, harming themselves because they find this an easy way out to escape. These endangered woman should at least have a say in what they thing is what's best for them, not what is best for this unborn fetus that happened from an unfortunate event.