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Years ago, during a discussion in my South Carolina Family Law course, we turned to the topic of reproductive rights. Many in the class asserted the state's right to protect human life trumped a mother's right to determine what happened inside her body.
Borrowing a concept from Gloria Steinem regarding a willingness to surrender the fetus to the state to do with it as they wished, I suggested that if public policy indeed required protection of the fetus, then the body politic should invest in artificial wombs for the gestation of those fetuses not wanted by the biological causes of them. There were, predictably, howls of outrage, with the most reasoned among them rejecting the theory on the basis of impossibility.
Apparently, medical science has caught up with Gloria and me!
This should shift the debate from whether a woman may choose to which womb the unwanted fetus should transfer to.
"The white men were as thick and numerous and aimless as grasshoppers, moving always in a hurry but never seeming to get to whatever place it was they were going to." Dee Brown
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Have you a link, my friend? I'd like to research.
A well reasoned argument is like a diamond: impervious to corruption and crystal clear - and infinitely rarer.
Here, as elsewhere, people are outraged at what feels like a rigged game -- an economy that won't respond, a democracy that won't listen, and a financial sector that holds all the cards. - Robert Reich
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Getting a transplant of somebody else's non-essential organ is a fundamentally bad idea. The best possible course of action for those women would be to remove their transplanted uterus and sanction the doctor who performed the transplants.
When we can grow them a new uterus from their own stem cells, that would be a different story. (And that's not far off, either.) Of course, once we can do that then couples can chose which parent should carry the child! Talk about disruption of the reproductive laws...
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