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To: CondoleezzaProtege

I have mixed feelings on the no embryos destroyed in the process.

Yes, a unique human life is destroyed just as it was created. But this happens routinely inside the womb for various reasons. Additionally, until technology improves, the current method of ivf is to maximise egg production, fertilize as many as possible, and implant the best candidates. You might get a dozen fertilized eggs in one cycle. If the first one is successful, what do you do with the rest?

I realize that one can make the argument that there is no moral difference between a fertilized egg and a baby just before it is born. Is the moral good of a birthed baby worth the destruction of it’s siblings just after conception? Not an easy choice.

I’m not sure what the answer is.


3 posted on 08/17/2019 6:00:36 PM PDT by chrisser
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To: chrisser

I thought there was an option that only fertilized one at a time? My understanding is the vast majority create multiple fertilized eggs, some discard the unused and some freeze them in supposed perpetuity until the artificial womb is invented or a donor womb becomes available I guess. Even if the artificial womb is someday invented it wouldn’t be used by many I am thinking, especially in the beginning, unless there is some publicly funded state program to develop all the frozen people. That’s hard to picture too.

FReegards


4 posted on 08/17/2019 6:52:39 PM PDT by Ransomed
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