I know this is not strictly about abortion
per se but I think the issue is a similar
one to that of abortion. The embryos have
already been created - and with the man's
consent - but at his word the embryos are
going to be destroyed and this woman will
never be able to have a child of her own.
Is this right? A man has no legal say in
whether a woman has a termination so
should he have a say in a case such as
this?
Is is morally wrong to create embryos and
then destroy them without giving them the
chance for life?
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diamond splinter
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Posted: 04-11-07 07:02am
This is to wrong for words
it is the womans only choice whether she
aborts or not ........yes
yet this woman had no choice these
embryo's were fertilised yet the father
had all the choices not the mother.
Morraly it is wrong on every aspect much
wanted embryos have been aborted against
the mothers wishes to me that constitutes
forced abortion
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Tylanas
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Posted: 04-11-07 12:40pm
I agree that the father should not have
all the say in this situation, because the
embryos are not in either person's body.
Personally, once embryos like this are
unwanted, the desicion to destroy needs to
be consentual between borth parents, or,
they can decide to have the embryos given
to stem cell research which so desperately
needs them.
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jenn_smithson
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Re: Did Courts Make Right Decision? Posted: 04-12-07 13:31pm
PurestGreen
wrote:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/h
ealth/6530295.stm
I know this is not strictly about abortion
per se but I think the issue is a similar
one to that of abortion. The embryos have
already been created - and with the man's
consent - but at his word the embryos are
going to be destroyed and this woman will
never be able to have a child of her
own.
No, he withdrew his
consent for them to be used. The UK law
is very clear that both
partners must give their consent for the
embryo's to be used. He has the right to
deny consent and he probably has a good
reason for doing so that was not covered
in a short news piece.
In the us where the law is more vague and
uncertain, embryo's are treated like
property and when a relationship ends, one
of the partners is granted ownership.
Even if the other partner is infertile and
desperately wants a child,
the partner who retains ownership has the
final say in what happens to those
embryo's.
It's heart wrenching that this woman
cannot have biological children of her
own. I do sympathize with her on this
difficult situation. But the law is very
clear and when you have competing
interests in a case like this, not
everyone can come out of it happy and
satisfied. If they had broken the law or
even changed it by giving her the
embryo's, there is no guarantee that they
would have even implanted and then the
rights of this man under the uk law would
have been completely trampled.
It was a hard decision for the courts to
make but I do feel they made the only one
that they could make. The laws, at least
in the uk, are interested in supporting
the human rights of .actual people,
meaning the man and woman in this
situation. The law is very clear that
consent must be given by each party to use
the embryo's and for whatever reason, this
man denied his consent. His rights were
respected just as the woman's rights were
respected.
Quote:
Is this right? A
man has no legal say in whether a woman
has a termination so should he have a say
in a case such as
this?
Yes, because unlike an
established pregnancy where the woman's
body, which only she owns, is already
being used, the embyros are not a part of
of anyone's body, thus they are
specialized community property. I think
the uk has a very responsible and
reasonable law in place for these
situations and they made the best decision
under the law that they could.
Quote:
Is is morally
wrong to create embryos and then destroy
them without giving them the chance for
life?
This is a separate
argument from the legal argument.
Legally, the best decision was reached. I
don't think it is necessarily wrong to
create embryos and then destroy them since
that is what occurs a vast majority of the
time. Of the embryo's that are created
for fertility treatments like ivf, only a
very small minority are actually
implanted. Most are destroyed.
