The Frozen Ones: The Morally Deserted World of Spare Embryos
December 16, 2008 by ithinkthereforeib
I found this article rather worth reading today, as it raised some very challenging questions – that, according to the writer – we haven’t even yet started thinking about.
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I know it may not seem to be that related to this topic, however I feel the need to mention it. WHY are pro-lifer’s always saying ok keep the baby protect life yay! Ok maybe not that specifically but thats the main idea… How can they suggest for someone to have a baby if they cannot support themselves? And if the quality of life for the baby is REALLY bad, should they have the baby? Why have a baby when the kid is going to be miserable! How can someone be pro life but ignores the fact that in some cases the life that is given will be REALLY REALLY bad? Ok haha sry for that… explosion, but those are the questions that always come to mind when I think about pro life and pro choice and all that (I have not decided what I am in this aspect… which is why I doubt all the sides so much). Same with the pro choice, if everyone is given a choice then the rate of abortions would grow exponentially! If the baby can be given a healthy life why must you kill it?…
Back to the article, I thought that it was quite interesting, I had no idea there were so many rozen embryos… and what’s to keep parents from leaving them there FOREVER? Ok I understand keeping them frozen TEMPORARILY (not that LONG though) but to never unfreeze them? hmm I don’t think so. The author of the article makes an interesting point when it mentions the moral implications on the parents (that they are greater), things is parents don’t consider these at all, from what I gathered.
Sorry if I made any dumb comments, I have not really investigated the different sides to pro choice and pro life, or any of these cases (such as the frozen embryos) for that matter, so all of these comments come from someone without any indepth info. Just thought I should mention that
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I guess pro-lifers should respond to your questions… Some of those questions you ask them though wouldn´t apply for those who have the baby and give it away for adoption.
“Same with the pro choice, if everyone is given a choice then the rate of abortions would grow exponentially!” — Why would do you think that would happen? (Seems like a fallacy.) Do you think making abortions illegal makes them not happen?
I think, on the whole, the article raises a completely new issue, beyond the regular abortion discussion. I had never thought of the “frozen embryos situation”! I also wonder if one necessarily has to believe the same about abortion as for frozen embryos – the issue is related, but there are some distinctions (which makes it all more complicated really).