Unfortunately we’re not allowed to tell people to take some responsibility these days. Use a condom? Birth control? Maybe not get knocked up by an abusive guy? HOW DARE YOU?! But murdering an unborn child is socially acceptable. Hell, it’s considered downright heroic.
The problem with that notion is that we have a rapidly expanding treatment for severe diseases. HIV was a horrid death sentence 30 years ago and have now been reduced to “flu like symptoms” for many. There are multiple childbirth defects that would have been death sentences a decade ago that no longer is the case.
There are plenty of birth defects that have no chance of ever being cured, no matter how Star Trek things get. Neural tube defects that prevent the brain from developing properly, for example. If a baby is born without most of its brain, it's going to live, at most, a couple years of constant misery that it's not conscious enough to even comprehend. There is no curing that.
Healthy pregnancies should not be terminated and I’m sick of pretending they should.
Unfortunately we’re not allowed to tell people to take some responsibility these days. Use a condom? Birth control? Maybe not get knocked up by an abusive guy? HOW DARE YOU?! But murdering an unborn child is socially acceptable. Hell, it’s considered downright heroic.
If there’s severe birth defects, I get it. There is mercy in preventing suffering. But killing healthy babies is deranged.
The problem with that notion is that we have a rapidly expanding treatment for severe diseases. HIV was a horrid death sentence 30 years ago and have now been reduced to “flu like symptoms” for many. There are multiple childbirth defects that would have been death sentences a decade ago that no longer is the case.
There are plenty of birth defects that have no chance of ever being cured, no matter how Star Trek things get. Neural tube defects that prevent the brain from developing properly, for example. If a baby is born without most of its brain, it's going to live, at most, a couple years of constant misery that it's not conscious enough to even comprehend. There is no curing that.