Hagbard Celine said:
Science has nothing to say regarding the "sanctity of life." Sanctity of life is a philosophical/religious idea. All science says is that we're a bunch of cells packed together to make one big organism. Because a baby is attached to its mother until the cord is cut, science would consider the baby to be a group of cells that feed off of its mother or host organism to grow.
First of all, reread my posts and you will find no mention of the "sanctity of life", secondly the fetus is defined by science as a separate life and human life as well. Their DNA will tell you that, denial isn't just a river in egypt. Unlike say cancer where the DNA is the same as the "host" the fetus is a separate human genetically as well as in other well defined ways.
A fetus beyond any doubt at all is alive and a separate entity from the mother as defined by DNA, a separate nervous system, heart, and, however rudimentary depending on the time of development, mind as well. Science does not define the fetus as part of the other being, that is an opinion not based in science.
And bud, I read your post right after it was posted. But until technology advances to the point to where it is possible to keep a fetus alive outside its mother, it's pure science fiction.
The technology would be developed faster through implementation. Yes many of the fetuses would die at the beginning of the burgeoning new science and the result would be much the same as directed death by abortion but in time the results would be much different. It would have the added benefit of a society that does not kill progeny as a goal in any "medical" procedure.
Great idea, but not yet possible, like flying cars and stuff.
I didn't say it was possible as of yet, I said to start it and over time it would give every mother a real choice not that it was a choice for those who want to keep their children right now. However those fetuses that were removed for care that died in the beginning would have been aborted otherwise. Those fetuses would be the beginning of this new science, thechnology would advance, and then, over time, there would be actual reproductive choice for women.
Imagine the effect on their pay as well as on their health overall (one of the main reasons that women usually make less then men is the fact that they take time off to take care of their children thus freezing raises etc and those, like my wife, that stay home lower that average even more). No more Pre-Eclampsia or Eclampsia unless those dangers were taken on by a conscious decision to incubate the baby naturally. No more pregnancy diabetes, unless the conscious decision was made... No rape victim would ever carry a baby naturally unless they were fundamentalists that thought a child incubated out of the womb was bad in some way.
Wow, I can see the many huge future benefits of this already as well as the already large benefit of not actually calling it a "medical procedure" while killing the progeny of humans.
