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Whole body gestational donation (‘Fetal containers’: Bioethicist proposes using brain dead women as surrogates)
Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics ^ | November 18, 2022 | Anna Smajdo

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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TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: axlotltank; axlotltanks; benetleilax; bioethicist; ethics; gestation; gestationaldonation; surrogates; thebenetleilax; thetleilaxu; tleilaxu; tools; ultimatesurrogates
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To: DoodleBob
Rob Mom Zombie!

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.

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Anyone who is familiar with Maggie T.'s history and lifestyle will understand my comment.

21 posted on 01/31/2023 6:55:58 PM PST by A Formerly Proud Canadian ( Ceterum autem censeo Justinius True-dope-us esse delendam)
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To: DoodleBob

Whenever I hear the word Bioethicist I want to reach for my crucifix and holy water.


22 posted on 01/31/2023 6:58:36 PM PST by Antioch (Against stupidity even the Gods struggle in vain….)
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To: DoodleBob

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.


23 posted on 01/31/2023 7:02:44 PM PST by Southside_Chicago_Republican (The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog. )
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To: DoodleBob

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


24 posted on 01/31/2023 7:05:20 PM PST by OneVike ( Just another Christian waiting to go home)
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To: DoodleBob

A brain dead woman cannot give consent to be a surrogate.


25 posted on 01/31/2023 7:08:57 PM PST by Dr. Sivana (But yet the Son of man, when he cometh, shall he find, think you, faith on earth? (Luke 18:8))
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To: DoodleBob; All

Too easy...I thought they already were!


26 posted on 01/31/2023 7:15:02 PM PST by notdownwidems (Washington D.C. has become the enemy of free people everywhere!)
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To: DoodleBob

Jeepers, we don’t need to use Democrats as surrogate mothers!


27 posted on 01/31/2023 7:15:52 PM PST by MIchaelTArchangel ( )
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To: MarMema

It is ghoulish at every level.

I wonder if we will ever recover from this current madness that we see at every turn.


28 posted on 01/31/2023 7:16:13 PM PST by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TP)
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To: DoodleBob

Whole body gestational donation (‘Fetal containers’: Bioethicist proposes using brain dead women as surrogates)

Bioethicist, that must burn like fire in their mouths...


29 posted on 01/31/2023 7:20:23 PM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: DoodleBob

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...


30 posted on 01/31/2023 7:21:11 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: DoodleBob

And if there is not enough brain-dead women to provide the service, we can certainly make them through our “public health” departments.


31 posted on 01/31/2023 7:22:51 PM PST by CFW (old and retired)
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To: DoodleBob

Are there a lot of brain dead women available?


32 posted on 01/31/2023 7:24:46 PM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: DoodleBob

We are just lab rats to Bill Gates and his ilk.


33 posted on 01/31/2023 7:35:27 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is ████ █ ██████ ███████ ███ ██████ ██ ████████. FJB.)
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To: MHGinTN

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.


34 posted on 01/31/2023 7:38:57 PM PST by chronicles
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To: Paladin2

The Matrix.


35 posted on 01/31/2023 7:41:33 PM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
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To: DoodleBob

Should be plenty of candidate carriers.


36 posted on 01/31/2023 7:47:08 PM PST by Sequoyah101 (Procrastination is just a form of defiance.)
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To: DoodleBob

“...initiating...”

__________

Euphemizing.


37 posted on 01/31/2023 7:54:59 PM PST by one guy in new jersey
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To: hinckley buzzard

Those Overton Windows aren’t going to shift themselves, you know!


38 posted on 01/31/2023 7:56:08 PM PST by one guy in new jersey
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To: A Formerly Proud Canadian

That was her son.

This is talking about using them as growth containers for strangers.


39 posted on 01/31/2023 7:58:10 PM PST by MarMema (Orange Putin Bad)
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To: Dr. Sivana

But if they are organ donors? Perhaps.


40 posted on 01/31/2023 7:59:53 PM PST by MarMema (Orange Putin Bad)
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