"Steve Wright" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>There are a lot of technical and basically humanistic questions here,
>and all posts will help... glad you chose to post, and please feel free
>to correct or amend the above. :) Best, LDMF.
>
As far as the law goes over here a fetus is not a baby or a child until it
is to, advanced to legally allow a abortion, this includes using a fetus for
genetic and Pharmaceutical research. I think that is a good place to begin
with although there are minor pressure groups trying to get the legal limit
reduced. The question of when does a baby become a person is one for which
I cannot find a comfortable time for, and I think the research that I have
seen on Discovery and other programs about when a baby becomes self aware
all leave me feeling uneasy.
Another thing we discussed (at college today) was the use of oxygenated
liquid to help premature babies with undeveloped lungs survive, its an
offshoot from deep sea diving technology (as in the film Abyss, your
government was actually quite aggrieved that it was used in the film). As
our ability to keep premature babies alive improves I feel it will make the
above question more and more difficult. When the technology comes along to
enable a baby to grow without its mother then some serious sociological
questions have to be answered.
Its bad enough with that but when we can successfully clone ourselves to use
as spare parts then Frankenstein will be alive and well for sure. Medical
technology is reaching a point were all the unacceptable things that we
depicted in comic books, are now becoming closer to reality.
Steve
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