Legal Scholar Calls for ‘Fetal Rescue Programs’ to End Abortion Debate
I've had my students write rebuttals to fake arguments for and against fetal transfers to artificial wombs replacing abortions as an over the top, out there hypothetical.
Now some legal scholar is arguing it for real, and people are arguing the other side for real.
This is why it is so hard to write satire....
Presumably, the patients Giles has in mind here are women who allegedly terminated pregnancies because they were not ready to parent, either for financial or emotional reasons. In other words, they were uncomfortable with the thought of terminating their pregnancies, but saw no other choice. In turn, he notes there is a stigma associated with carrying a pregnancy to term and then relinquishing parental rights in adoption. While it sounds like hes trying to be sympathetic to these patients by painting them as grieving would-be mothers, his so-called solution for the problem of these women choosing abortion is, of course, to take that choice away.
That solution, as he sees it, is what he calls a fetal rescue program, in which the state bears the burden and expenses of gestating the terminated pregnancy, including the burden and expense related to caring for any live birth that results. Heres Giles proposal:
It [fetal rescue program] puts the woman in what we might call the gestate-or-relinquish dilemma: carry the fetus to term or relinquish it to the state prior to viability for attempted rescue via AW [artificial womb]. The gestate-or-relinquish dilemma can best be characterized as a pre-viability, pre-natal version of the raise-or-relinquish dilemma. Like its post-natal analogue, it frustrates the womans interest in ensuring the death of the fetus. If she opts not to carry the fetus to term, she must relinquish it to the state, and if AW succeeds, her biological child will be raised by others....
http://rhrealitycheck.org/article/2015/01/05/legal-scholar-calls-fetal-rescue-programs-end-abortion-debate/
undeterred
(34,658 posts)Or does that sound crazy?
Sister to TxTowelie
(117 posts)Contraception isn't 100%.
undeterred
(34,658 posts)if contraception were easily available to everyone who needs it.
Sister to TxTowelie
(117 posts)to want the baby they've fathered should be given the opportunity to have the conceptus if they absolutely insist it be brought to term:
"I'm not carrying this any more than I'm giving my liver away. You want it? Fine. Here. It's yours." Hand him the test tube and leave.
Mnemosyne
(21,363 posts)Welcome to DU!
yurbud
(39,405 posts)BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)But Reality will always kick your ass.
Sister to TxTowelie
(117 posts)Collect the conceptus in a test tube after an abortion. Then give it to them.
When I had a miscarriage at 6 weeks, I actually saw it on toilet paper. Didn't look anything like the pictures on the signs held up by extremists at rallies.
magical thyme
(14,881 posts)then why regress to the non-technical term "womb?"
It is a uterus. A zygote resides in a uterus.
yurbud
(39,405 posts)fetal "rescue" is the first one.
He should have used as neutral terminology as possible to avoid the appearance of moral judgment that the author of this article objected to, and simply sell it as a "win-win" for both the woman ending her pregnancy and whoever gets the product of conception.