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Originally Posted by Reckoner
I guess part of the problem in this argument between both sides is the lack of information about Nagisa's illness, what were her real chances and such. To me it seems like she still had a good chance of dieing, evne if she was in a hospital.
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Well, that's the question, isn't it. There's a lot of doubt about just what Nagisa's chances were, most likely because the story saw it as a secondary issue and didn't really intend for the events that happened in the plot to be an exploration of the choice of abortion for a mother in a situation where childbirth puts her life at risk. The question then is, where does the benefit of the doubt lie? Do you give the benefit of the doubt to Nagisa, who's life is at risk, who's desire is to start a family, and who, we assume, has been exposed to a risk assessment from a doctor and advice from her family and husband and a trained, experience midwife, etc, etc, or do you not give it to Nagisa, because you assume that, independent of circumstances and the choices she made with her how she delivered, her life was still at significant risk. There aren't any obvious indicators, because, like you say, even though were were told her life was at risk, we weren't explicitly told just how big that risk was, so all we can really do is speculate based on what has been implied by the story. I just think Nagisa deserves the benefit of the doubt in this case. Considering what happened, it just seems to me that the story required the worst possible circumstances to happen for her to die... which I see as an indication that, had the worst circumstances not happened, she probably would have lived.
