Lillian D’Costa

Posts Tagged ‘Abortion

Right to life?

Posted by: lilliandcosta on: December 10, 2008

Does an unborn child with disability

have the right to life?

Dear All, I’m sure those of you who hear the news on television have been hearing the news about how the Bombay High Court on 4th August 2008 rejected the plea of Niketa and Harish Mehta’s to abort their 24-week-old foetus.
Doctors say their unborn child [...]

Are PWDs a Burden to Their Families?

Posted by: lilliandcosta on: December 10, 2008

Are PWDs a Burden to Their
Families?

In early August 2008 , India witnessed an interesting debate sparked off by a couple in Mumbai who wanted to abort their 6 month old fetus, after doctors reported that the child would be born with a congenital heart condition that would require medical care throughout the child’s [...]

Are People with Disabilities a Burden to Their Families?

Posted by: lilliandcosta on: September 1, 2008

Are PWD a Burden to Their Families?

Early this month the country witnessed an interesting debate sparked off by a couple in Mumbai who wanted to abort their 6 month old fetus, after doctors reported that the child would be born with a congenital heart condition that would require medical care throughout the child’s life. The [...]

Does an unborn child with disability have the right to live?

Posted by: lilliandcosta on: August 5, 2008

Does an unborn child with disability have
the right to live?

Dear All, I’m sure those of you who hear the news on television have been hearing the news about how the Bombay High Court on 4th August 2008 rejected the plea of Niketa and Harish Mehta to abort their 24-week-old foetus.

Doctors say their unborn child [...]


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    The horizon in shades of green,Water tanks, blue and black,Clothes of all hues waving in the breeze.Cloud 9 advertising its services,Who would think, it would need to?But it does,Its the recession.
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    oh why does my soul refuse to rest.it bounds up,against gravity,like there were thorns that pricked its underside.refusing it rest.oh my soul has a bloody breasta weary heartthat longs to rest,but somehow each night is dayin its unending search to run away.
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    I stare out,As the orange-pink of sunsetFades away into silhouettes,Large dark trees, rise upAnd the cold road leads away.The breeze whips at my face,The curtains buffeted in the strong wind,Fly around uncontrollably like shreds,My heart feels the same,As it leaves sweet memories behind.Parting can never be harder.15th April 2009
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    Its 8th March, International Women’s DayBut she doesn’t know it.She wakes up at 6.00 a.m,like she has for the last 12 years,her mental clock and love for her family helps her up.she fills the rice into the cooker, chops up the vegetables in the yellow light of the bulb.The chickens in their coop stir, at the first break of light.the brass pot rolls down on t […]
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    I want to writeBut wordsTremble within meThen die.I dig through my memoryFor experiencesFor verseBut all I find is gooey morass.I yearn to riseBe the bestBut the forceEludes meA phantom. There they areThe first buds of springOr is it a mirageThe sightings of a deluded soul8th February 2008