May be beneficial for people that suffer cancer and are unable to have children after chemo. I know a couple where the guy had some kind of disease as a child and they were unable to have a child. Ended up adopting a nephew from a troubled sister, but they could have easily raised a bunch more if nature didn’t conspire against them.
Generally, as long as the technology is used to bring children into the world, I consider it moral, there is no such thing as life unworthy of life.
Luddites don’t understand situations like that. For them, since the process is artificial, the child thus created is “unnatural” and does not deserve to exist. They’d rather curse the child than re-examine their dogma.
You already have someone commenting about how “aged” the newborns look, LOL.
>>Generally, as long as the technology is used to bring children into the world, I consider it moral, there is no such thing as life unworthy of life.<<
So it doesn’t matter at all to you how many of the fertilized eggs were dumped in the trash?
Do you know that they don’t fertilize just one egg, right? AND if there are more than one that makes it into the “lucky embryo club” the extras are just sucked out, right?
Lots of circumstances ---other than marital intercourse ---can result in a baby: forcible rape, reproductive concubinage, surrogacy, youthful love affair, prostitution, baby-selling schemes, random promiscuous hook-up, lab experiments, incest, cloning, slave-breeding.
Everyone should agree that every one of these babies is "worthy of life" because any human being has a right to simply go on living. But everybody SHOULD also agree that least some of the ways on that list are wrong, and some are "wronger" than others.
It's not a reflection on the worth of the child. It's a reflection on the right of a child to be brought into existence in a way that reflects his dignity, that reflects what he is: essentially, a unique, loved, begotten child of a man and woman committed to his wellbeing and nurture, the fruit of the honorable and loving marital embrace.
Anything less than that, insults the child by making him a a commodity, a lab experiment, a product of violation, the object of a commercial transaction, a contraceptive failure, a mistake, an expensive pedigreed pet, something illegitimate, something unnatural--- something less than what he had a right to be.
This also opening the floodgates to lesbian couples, and gay-male couples, ordering up sperm, eggs, embryos, surrogates, etc. and deliberately concocting children alienated in every way, by intent, from either their genetic father, or their genetic mother, or their birthgiving mother, their natural siblings, their entire network of natural kin, or all of the above.
Gay guys from the USA and Europe are already doing reproductive tourism in India, hiring women to fabricate a pregnancy with an egg from here and a sperm from there and a contract to make sure she hands it over as specified, and a technician and an abortionist for quality control.
That's the inevitable destiny of these technologies.
Child = commodity.
Bad idea.