Scientists try to build a better 'womb' for IVF (Boston Globe -
So instead of getting an abortion it may be possible to "decant" the baby into an artificial womb someday and not kill it. But then we have an entirely new ethical delima: who's going to pay for it all? The state?
I think the reemergence of eugenics as a cause for abortion (aborting because of the wrong sex or inconvenient genetic anomolies such as bad vision) may change a lot of the emotional content of the debate. The first inklings of that have come up surrounding the possibility of there being a "homosexual gene" and the logical consequences that finding that out in routine pre-natal testing could be. There already is a big problem in China with the aborting of female babies in preference for males causing a skewing of the population such that there could be a collapse in their population from lack of child bearing age women.
It may be time to read Huxley again.
Good points. I do agree issues such as this are ever changing as new technology develops.
I just finished watching the Fred Thompson interview on Meet the Press. Fred had the best insight on Pakistan, Iraq and Iran as I have heard from any candidate to date. Things Fred said coincided with my understanding of many issues and he came across as logical and methodical in his approach to the presidency should he be elected. I don’t know how anyone could watch the MTP interview without acknowledging his knowledge on these issues. As to his position on abortion, what he said satisfied my concerns. From what I read earlier on FR, it seems this wasn’t enough but I fail to see how.