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The Edge of LifeCould Artificial Wombs End the Abortion Debate?

The Edge of Life: Could Artificial Wombs End the Abortion Debate? CHAPTER 7 COULD ARTIFICIAL WOMBS END THE ABORTION DEBATE? If there is any contemporary debate that is intractable, the debate about abortion is. The intractability arises particularly on account of those who oppose all abortions and those who oppose no abortions. Each year opinion polls differ as to the exact percent- age of those who call themselves “pro-life” or “pro-choice.” Although many people, including a number of those strongly committed to one view or the other, have changed their minds, there does not seem to be any end to the debate on the horizon. It is as difficult to imagine the National Abortion Rights Action League abandoning its advo- cacy of abortion as it is to imagine that the Catholic Church giving up its criticism of abortion. But what if, somehow, both sides could secure that which they desire? What if the defender of abortion could be assured that no woman would ever have to carry an unwanted pregnancy and the critic of abortion could be assured that no human fetus would ever be destroyed by abortion? What if there existed readily accessible artificial wombs that could free women from unwanted pregnancies and free the fetus from the threat http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

The Edge of LifeCould Artificial Wombs End the Abortion Debate?

Part of the Philosophy and Medicine Book Series (volume 85)
Editors: Spicker, Stuart F.; Engelhardt, H. Tristram; Wildes, Kevin Wm.
The Edge of Life — Jan 1, 2005
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Springer Netherlands
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© Springer 2005
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978-1-4020-3155-7
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105 –121
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10.1007/1-4020-3156-4_7
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Abstract

CHAPTER 7 COULD ARTIFICIAL WOMBS END THE ABORTION DEBATE? If there is any contemporary debate that is intractable, the debate about abortion is. The intractability arises particularly on account of those who oppose all abortions and those who oppose no abortions. Each year opinion polls differ as to the exact percent- age of those who call themselves “pro-life” or “pro-choice.” Although many people, including a number of those strongly committed to one view or the other, have changed their minds, there does not seem to be any end to the debate on the horizon. It is as difficult to imagine the National Abortion Rights Action League abandoning its advo- cacy of abortion as it is to imagine that the Catholic Church giving up its criticism of abortion. But what if, somehow, both sides could secure that which they desire? What if the defender of abortion could be assured that no woman would ever have to carry an unwanted pregnancy and the critic of abortion could be assured that no human fetus would ever be destroyed by abortion? What if there existed readily accessible artificial wombs that could free women from unwanted pregnancies and free the fetus from the threat

Published: Jan 1, 2005

Keywords: Embryo Transfer; Human Embryo; Human Fetus; Surrogate Motherhood; Abortion Debate

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