katisara:
1) You just said disabled people are better off dead.
2) You're implying here that someone who gives birth is now required to raise the child.
3) Your actual counter to the "I'm dangling off the cliff holding onto your hand" metaphor is "if I try and help you up and fail, I will feel bad, so it is morally justified to just push you".
1. No. I'm saying that I'd have a harder time living with myself if I left you crippled than if I left you dead.
2. Not exactly, but those are really the two main options. Adoption is not really that popular of a choice, and there's thousands of kids waiting to be adopted as we speak, so it's not a guarantee either.
3. No, you're saying it's always murder. But if I don't think I can help you without harming myself (physically or mentally), that is justification to not help.
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Now, if we caught it early enough, we can (in theory) remove an embryo and freeze it, and then implant it into a woman later. This would be very, very expensive however.
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I had a discussion with my dad and a bio PhD about this recently, and I thought the conclusions were... odd.
Many people make the case that abortion is murder (obviously), but removing the embryo and freezing it indefinitely is not, because the embryo still has the /potential/ to be implanted and brought to term.
Honestly, I find this to be hypocritical. The vast majority of embryos aren't ever used, and we know it. It's abortion through procrastination. But it's a step with many methods of IVF, so I'm wondering how much of that decision may be political.
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I don't know about political, but I can assure you it's not practical. The technology exists, but it's very tricky and expensive. Even leaving out how few frozen embryos are actually used, there's no guarantee that any of them will be viable.
Basically, it's a huge gamble, costs a lot of money and medical resources, and is no better for the woman's health. As such, the technology is not currently a viable repalcement for abortions. Maybe someday in the future, but definitely not today.