Wednesday, March 23, 2005
A Compromise on Abortion
The topic of abortion currently tops the list of the most controversial issues in America. But recent developments in the University of California-Berkeley may offer a compromise that’ll satisfy both sides. Instead of destroying the fetus, doctors would begin to use cryogenic freezing to preserve it until it’s ready for life again.
Whether you currently consider yourself pro-life or pro-choice, you may be relieved to know that you can be both. It is now possible to defend a woman’s right to her own body without sacrificing a baby’s life. And it is possible to defend a child’s life without denying a woman’s right to her own body. If the woman decides that she can’t bare the child right now, the doctor would simply freeze it without destroying it. The frozen baby can either be reconnected at a later time to the same woman, or offer for adoption where another mother will bare the birth. This way a woman can be free with her body while the life of the baby is not endangered.
Historian Nikolai Gurevich offers his opinion on the benefits of cryogenic freezing from a historical perspective. “Often, scientists and historians want to know specific details about people in the past. Things like the physical feature are basic inquiries. Many thousand years from now, people may wonder what we look like in the 21st century. Scientists can easily decide ‘hey let’s warm this baby up’ and grow it into a human and see how human develop over the centuries. If they had this technology two thousand years ago, we’d know if Jesus was black or white.”
While some argue against this idea, calling it “too optimistic and offers no real solutions,” doctors, scientists, and the public are in general supportive of this idea.
Whether you currently consider yourself pro-life or pro-choice, you may be relieved to know that you can be both. It is now possible to defend a woman’s right to her own body without sacrificing a baby’s life. And it is possible to defend a child’s life without denying a woman’s right to her own body. If the woman decides that she can’t bare the child right now, the doctor would simply freeze it without destroying it. The frozen baby can either be reconnected at a later time to the same woman, or offer for adoption where another mother will bare the birth. This way a woman can be free with her body while the life of the baby is not endangered.
Historian Nikolai Gurevich offers his opinion on the benefits of cryogenic freezing from a historical perspective. “Often, scientists and historians want to know specific details about people in the past. Things like the physical feature are basic inquiries. Many thousand years from now, people may wonder what we look like in the 21st century. Scientists can easily decide ‘hey let’s warm this baby up’ and grow it into a human and see how human develop over the centuries. If they had this technology two thousand years ago, we’d know if Jesus was black or white.”
While some argue against this idea, calling it “too optimistic and offers no real solutions,” doctors, scientists, and the public are in general supportive of this idea.
# posted by Truthful Propagandist @ 11:16 PM 
