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for these children within their own cultural context.
We have no way of judging what is going on inside
the mind of a woman with AIDS or any other
terminal illness. Having a child probably has very
strong significance for her in terms of leaving
something behind that is uniquely hers, or perhaps
it is a way of denying her illness, of telling herself
that she is okay. Whatever her reasons, the final
decision should be left up to the woman in consultation
with her physician. A personal decision. And
that is as it should be.
'Recently an activist in
the AIDS field confessed
that she was
very ambivalent about
whether an HIV-positive
woman should be
'permitted' to bring
a child into the world."
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Arecent study indicated that the virus has
been isolated in the cells of the large intestine,
indicating that HIV may have the
ability to pass directly through the intestinal
wall during anal intercourse rather than being
carried by the blood stream; and new studies
reported in the Annals of Internal Medicine (March,
1988, Vol. 108, No. 3) suggest that "HIV enters
cervical secretions from selected infected cell
populations in cervical tissue, and these cells may
be involved in transmission of HIV by heterosexual
contact and to neonates born to HIV-infected
women." If this is true, then some newborns may
be contracting the virus during birth and not before.
Perhaps future studies will indicate that cesarean
delivery can cut down the number of infected
babies born to mothers with HIV.
Justice William O. Douglas once wrote that:
1 'The Constitution and the Bill of Rights guarantee
to us all the right to personal and spiritual selffulfillment.
But the guarantee is not selffulfillment.
But the guarantee is not self-executing.
As nightfall does not come at once, neither does
oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight
when everything remains seemingly unchanged.
And it is in such twilight that we all must be most
aware of change in the air—however slight—lest
we become unwitting victims of the darkness."
We must not let the dawning of the AIDS
epidemic become the twilight of our hard-earned
right to reproductive freedom for all women! 4
(For information or for the listing of other women
and AIDS groups in the U. S., contact: Women and
AIDS Resource Network, Marie St. Cyr-Delpe, 135
West 4th Street, do United Methodist Church, New
York, NY 10012, (212) 475-6713.)
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