If all premature babies could survive outside the mother’s womb via this process, who would actually still want an abortion besides the incurably bloodthirsty?
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Some women don't want to be pregnant, ever. That doesn't make use blood thirsty. Pregnancy is inherently dangerous. Maternal mortality in the US is higher than any other developed nation because we don't value women, and don't take their complaints seriously. See the recent NPR/ProPublica story on the subject.
There's a huge difference between a fetus at the time of usual abortions and a premie who can survive with assistance. There is no way a fetus at 10-12 weeks, within the first trimester when almost all abortions are done, can survive outside the womb, no matter what medical assistance may be available.
Are you willing to support that 22-week premie for the next 18 years if the mother does not have the physical/emotional/financial wherewithall to do so?
To be fair backtracking that leads us to this article about the eventual invention of artificial wombs.
If the fetus could be brought successfully to term outside of the mother then I think that would raise questions about the ethics of abortion for non-medical reasons.
I'll need a couple of beers to ponder this.
If the population growth stresses the safety of ALL the population, who would want to go to extraordinary attempts to keep one baby alive? If an unwanted child could be kept alive, who would step up and assure that child of a loving set of parents?
You would? Wonderful! There's an adoption agency full of children waiting for you.
Who would actually pay for that expensive medical care? Who's going to actually take care of all those children once they are fully gestated in the artificial wombs? Pro-lifers? They are, after all, the ones insisting that all life is precious...
You haven't understood the reason behind most abortions at all, stupid. It's mostly about not being able to provide a child with a good life. It's also about pregnancy and childbirth being some of the most dangerous things a woman can do. One woman dies every other minute from pregnancy and childbirth, most in the third world, but with the welfare being dismantled in many western countries (including my own), deaths are happening here too.
Besides, premature babies and aborted embryos are not the same thing.
Embryo v9:
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Preemie, v21:
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Preemie, v22:
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Much more pertinent question: Who will care for them? Would you like to take a stab at guessing how many kids wait for adoption in the US alone? And in light of this would you also like to count the number of people who insist personal procreation must take precedent over all in issues of sexuality, family, and even the very purpose of human life to the extent that anyone who does not procreate is some manner of abominous failure or even threat to civilization at large?
Confused?
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