On 7/25/2022 3:57 PM, Dirk Van Niekerk wrote:
On Monday, July 25, 2022 at 2:46:32 PM UTC-7 [email protected] wrote:
On 7/25/2022 2:19 PM, spudboy100 via Everything List wrote:
Translating you lament into American English I, the guy, who
supplied the links are:
1. A work around against abortion seems to be fetal transfer to
artificial wombs for incubation. The work has been successful on
sheep in research labs in Japan & The Netherlands. I am in favor
of abortion and contraceptives. But I see artificial wombs as the
next step forward. Its call medical progress. Reduce the butchery
and raise kids.
It's that last part that is the bigger problem. When a ten-year
old is pregnant by a rapist, who's going to raise the kid. When a
woman with three young children and a full time job gets pregnant,
who's going to raise the kid.
Brent
I can only see artificial wombs solving a very limited niche problem for:
1) women who had a hysterectomy but have functioning ovaries or frozen
away ova/embryos. This will really kill the in vitro fertilization
business in the pro-life states, because they will insist that every
frozen embryo will need to be incubated to full term. In fact, if you
believe that life starts at conception then IVF clinics kill a lot of
"babies". Each IVF cycle harvests about 15 eggs, 2/3 of which are
fertilized of which only 1 to 4 are implanted. The rest of the
embryos are usually eventually destroyed.
It's not just IVF. It's estimated that 25% of fertilized ova are
aborted by the normal menstrual cycle.
Brent
2) Women in early pregnancy who have cancer or some other condition
for whom pregnancy might be hazardous. But transferring a live fetus
in this way will be a major undertaking with considerable risk to the
fetus. In the current legal environment if the fetus dies in the
process of transferring to the artificial womb the doctor will
probably be charged with murder.
The problem is not technology it is public policy and politics. And
no number of new technologies will solve that problem.
Dirk
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