Is It Really About Choice?
I thought abortion was supposed to be okay because women had the inalienable right to do with their bodies whatever they wanted and a fetus was just a part of her body. So why are some of the same people who argue like this talking about limiting the number of fetuses a woman can have implanted through In Vitro Fertilization (IVF)? I certainly don't agree with abortion and I'm not a fan of IVF. But I would expect the pro-choicers to be consistent. If a fetus isn't really a living human being of its own, then why not let a woman do with her body as she pleases? Or is her choice only limited to the decision to kill her baby in utero while she has no choice whether to pursue the extreme opposite and have as many implanted as possible?
I suspect for the pro-abortion types that it's not really about choice, is it?
I suspect for the pro-abortion types that it's not really about choice, is it?
Labels: abortion, choice, In Vitro Fertilization, IVF
posted by Jim Pemberton at 3:31 PM
2 Comments:
On the subject but in another direction, here's something the wife and I discussed last year about a couple in our SS class. They apparently were having troubles getting married, so they opted to do IVF. From what I recall, there were 5 eggs harvested, 2 eggs fertilized and returned. Both eggs implanted and they had twins. Praise the Lord for this technology. However, what about the other 3 eggs? Is it their responsibility to fertilize the other 3?
Yeah. I hope if they don't want to use them that they not fertilize them. An unfertilized harvested egg is just a mechanical menstruation.
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