Re: LOST: Pregnant Women Dying

Dan Lanciani wrote:
> In article <47D14971.1429@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, fkellis@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Fred Ellis)
> writes:
>> Anim8rFSK wrote:
>>>
>>> In article <%O4Aj.8084$Mh2.5210@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>>>  s0183616 <s0183616@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Dan Lanciani wrote:
>>>>> In article
>>>>> <a6ab1802-0920-4b3b-a07c-dee720acd11c@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>>>>> tdciago@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (tdciago) writes:
>>>>>> On Mar 6, 10:09=EF=BF=BDpm, "yng...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
" <yng...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>> Juliet said in the third trimester the immune system attacks the
>>>>>>> fetus.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> In a previous episode, she put it this way:
>>>>>> "The mother's body turns on the pregnancy, treats it as a foreign
>>>>>> invader."
>>>>>>
>>>>>> So the question is: Why does the mother's body consider the
>>>>>> fetus a foreign invader?
>>>>>
>>>>> The real question is:  if (as Juliette said) this is only a
>>>>> problem when conception occurs on the island, was the entire
>>>>> Claire story line a red herring?  And if so, for whose benefit?
>>>>
>>>> What?  Claire did not conceive on the island.
>>>
>>> Correct.  But they acted like she was going to die without
>>> treatment.
>>>
>>> --
>>
>> They lied.  That is how you manipulate someone.
>
> Yes, but who is they and to whom were they lying?  They were giving
> Claire injections secretly, so they were trying to manipulate who
> exactly?  Ben?
>
>> Juliet told Benjamin
>> that she needed to leave the island so she bring a pregnant woman to
>> the island to study the difference in pregnance delevopment.
>
> I could have sworn she said she wanted to take women _off_ the island.
> We learned in the last episode that she must have already had examples
> of healthy births on the island from off-island conceptions.  I'm sure
> she studied them.
>
>> Benjamin said
>> no.  Then guess what, a pregnant woman shows up on the island.  That
>> was why Claire was abducted.  They lied about her medical condition
>> so she would want to stay at there medical facility.  Keeping Claire
>> drug up and telling her there was something wrong with her baby
>> convinced her to stay.  There was nothing wrong.  They just needed
>> her to stay so they could study her pregnancy condition for
>> comparison with those who got pregnant on the island.
>
> If this were true why were they planning to kill such a valuable
> subject
> as soon as the baby was born?
>
Because Ben is a psycopathic power-hungry lunatic?

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