Posted on 01/31/2023 6:25:03 PM PST by DoodleBob
Abstract
Whole body gestational donation offers an alternative means of gestation for prospective parents who wish to have children but cannot, or prefer not to, gestate. It seems plausible that some people would be prepared to consider donating their whole bodies for gestational purposes just as some people donate parts of their bodies for organ donation. We already know that pregnancies can be successfully carried to term in brain-dead women. There is no obvious medical reason why initiating such pregnancies would not be possible. In this paper, I explore the ethics of whole-body gestational donation. I consider a number of potential counter-arguments, including the fact that such donations are not life-saving and that they may reify the female reproductive body. I suggest if we are happy to accept organ donation in general, the issues raised by whole-body gestational donation are differences of degree rather than substantive new concerns. In addition, I identify some intriguing possibilities, including the use of male bodies–perhaps thereby circumventing some potential feminist objections.
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This is old news! Slightly over fifty-one years ago, on December 25, 1971, in d'Ottawa, Canaduh, a brain dead woman gave birth to a son. Unfortunately, the son was also brain dead.
Anyone who is familiar with Maggie T.'s history and lifestyle will understand my comment.
Whenever I hear the word Bioethicist I want to reach for my crucifix and holy water.
I am guessing that these bioethicists don’t have objections to brain-alive women terminating pregnancies that were conceived naturally.
We live in Bizarro World.
I am so proliferate I disagree with abortion even if it is to save the mothers life. However, this is just as sick and perverted as the pro choice idiots who want babies murdered after birth
A brain dead woman cannot give consent to be a surrogate.
Too easy...I thought they already were!
Jeepers, we don’t need to use Democrats as surrogate mothers!
It is ghoulish at every level.
I wonder if we will ever recover from this current madness that we see at every turn.
Whole body gestational donation (‘Fetal containers’: Bioethicist proposes using brain dead women as surrogates)
Bioethicist, that must burn like fire in their mouths...
That’ll go over great on the playground. “Oh yeah? Well, yer Mom was a corpse!” I’m guessing somebody hasn’t thought this through...
And if there is not enough brain-dead women to provide the service, we can certainly make them through our “public health” departments.
Are there a lot of brain dead women available?
We are just lab rats to Bill Gates and his ilk.
A movie called “Coma” starring Genevieve Bujold and Michael Douglas was along similar lines.
The brain-dead were kept alive and warehoused until their body parts were needed.
The Matrix.
Should be plenty of candidate carriers.
“...initiating...”
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Euphemizing.
Those Overton Windows aren’t going to shift themselves, you know!
That was her son.
This is talking about using them as growth containers for strangers.
But if they are organ donors? Perhaps.
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