An Alternative to Abortion

A confirmed pregnancy is not always the joyful occasion it is for most women in a steady relationship. Sometimes those three words “You are pregnant” are the worst words a woman can hear – words that will give her many nights sleeplessness, worrying about what to do, how to get out of her particular situation.

Abortion is never an easy option, but for some women, they feel they have no other choice, as they cannot continue with that pregnancy.

I’m not going to go into the ins and outs of why women can’t carry a child at that particular time, but rather this article is going to focus on a futuristic dream I have where abortions become unnecessary.

IVF

Modern science can now implant a fertilised egg in a woman’s uterus. They can take that egg and fertilise it in a laboratory, from sperm taken either from the woman’s partner, or from a donor. They can freeze that embryo, and they can later insert it inside a woman’s uterus where hopefully it will embed.

Or do they just freeze the egg and fertilise it when it has defrosted? Whatever.

In-vitro fertilisation (IVF) is big business, and many childless women have been grateful for the services provided. The more money pumped into the idea, the more research gets carried out, and the better the whole service becomes.

That’s what it is, a service. With money behind it, and of course it costs money to use it.

Prematurity

At the other end of the scale, physicians are getting better and better at saving very premature babies. In the early 1980s, the world’s first 21 week gestation baby was saved and it made world headlines. Now it is almost commonplace, although the techniques used are far from perfect considering the very high rate of abnormalities in those surviving pre-term infants.

Some countries do not make any attempt whatsoever to save premature babies under whatever the legal abortion limit in that country is. If a baby is born at less than the legal abortion age, there is no legal pressure on the doctors to try and save that child. By Law, it doesn’t exist. It doesn’t require a birth or a death certificate, and so therefore comes under the heading ‘spontaneous abortion’ and it seems like the only people who ever really cared for that infant was its parents.

The Vital Stage In-Between

My solution would be to pump vast amounts of money into research to create the artificial womb.

It would be mechanical, and would be a place for foetuses through to full term babies to live – like a high-tech cocoon. Everything in it would be automated. The temperature, the feeding, and the waste matter the foetus/baby produced - just like a woman’s uterus.

I know it can’t be done just now, but who, just 50 years ago, thought we’d have IVF, the so-called test-tube babies? Or mobile phone technology? Or the internet?

Man can do what man wants to do.

If the world develops the artificial womb, women could donate their embryos/foetuses rather than aborting them. Look at the photos here. The first foetus is 8 weeks old., the second 10 weeks and the third 18 weeks. Who says they are not humanoid? They are just little babies in miniature.

Who would want these babies? Childless couples, or those wanting to adopt.

I would stop IVF treatments. What does it matter if that child is genetically yours or not? You either want a child or you don’t.

Children are our future. I don’t mean our own children only; I mean all the children in the world. They are tomorrow’s generation. Without them, mankind would die out, and that’s a fact.

The way we are going just now is awful. From legally allowing abortions, we have cheapened life. Life is ours to wipe out if we choose. We have allowed our society to devalue life, leading to an increase in war, murder, rape.

I think abortions are here to stay, because we all understand there are situations where a woman feels she really doesn’t have any other option, and there are many circumstances where I think we can agree with her, but think how much better it would be if she could donate her foetus, rather than kill it.

Just an Idea

This is just an idea. If you have an opinion on it, please click on the poll and vote. Maybe some high techie person will read this and also think it’s a good idea, and maybe in many years from now it will become reality.