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.
😂😂😂😂😂, that’s literally just a diagnostic issue, we already have a solution for that it just requires the ability to diagnose at a reasonable cost. Also there’s already been a kid born with only a brain stem that made it to 9 years old.
Okay, to what end? A person with only a brain stem is basically a plant. A plant that has multiple seizures a day. No thoughts, no personality, no possibility of ever doing anything but lay there, ever, no matter what. Is allowing that sort of existence to persist for nine years a good thing? I'd argue it is not.
I don't know what you mean by "a diagnostic issue". Anencephaly or iniencephaly are not curable or treatable no matter how early you diagnose it. I'm not talking about relatively minor issues like spina bifida or encephalocele.
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.
😂😂😂😂😂, that’s literally just a diagnostic issue, we already have a solution for that it just requires the ability to diagnose at a reasonable cost. Also there’s already been a kid born with only a brain stem that made it to 9 years old.
Okay, to what end? A person with only a brain stem is basically a plant. A plant that has multiple seizures a day. No thoughts, no personality, no possibility of ever doing anything but lay there, ever, no matter what. Is allowing that sort of existence to persist for nine years a good thing? I'd argue it is not.
I don't know what you mean by "a diagnostic issue". Anencephaly or iniencephaly are not curable or treatable no matter how early you diagnose it. I'm not talking about relatively minor issues like spina bifida or encephalocele.
Inmates spend longer than that on death row. Barely surviving 9 years is still a death sentence.