The Promise of Star Dust Book Club

Today the book club met to discuss the book "The Promise of Star Dust". I didn't read the book, but the gist was that a woman had a living will that said she never wanted to be put on life support in the case of an accident, but when she got in an accident, it was discovered that she was pregnant (8 weeks) so the book is about the battle between her husband, who wants to keep her alive to bring the  baby to term, and her mother, who is her power of attorney, who is trying to uphold the living will which states that she does not want life support. In the end, I think the husband wins the battle and the baby survives, but it's an interesting debate. On the one hand, there's a baby in there! She would never want to kill her baby! On the other hand, the odds of that baby surviving and coming out without complications are very very slim, and the cost of keeping her alive for months is astronomical. The discussion brought up a few things. One of the debates was about whether life starts at conception. I have mixed feelings about that and don't really know what I think, but there was a split in our book club group. One perspective that I thought was really interesting from a religious perspective, came from a woman who had a miscarriage. She later had another baby, and she said that she felt her miscarriage was a body that wasn't working for the spirit that was her daughter, which came down in the next body she made. She said it better, but I thought that was very interesting. It also came out that most of the people in the predominantly-LDS book club group were vaguely pro-choice, but anti-abortion. By that I mean, they don't want to legislate to make abortion illegal, but they don't think people should get abortions in the majority of cases (and most certainly that women should not think of abortion as birth control).