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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, if such a technology were developed, would you be willing to fund it with tax dollars so that those babies could be saved, and then, if the babies were not adopted, pay for them to be raised?[/quote]

OP here and yes, absolutely I would personally be willing to see my tax dollars go to funding their care.

In answer to a previous question, the technology would allow a pregnant woman to remove the fetus from her womb and adopt it out to another family who would let it grow in a lab.

For those who have raised genetic issues as a factor, under these circumstances would you advocate differences in legislation /policy for genetically health babies and those with genetic disorders?

One additional question for those who have said their position would not change: what if under this scenario the biological father was opposed to aborting the baby?[/quote]

That's an interesting question because it would remove the "woman's body, woman's choice" framework that we use today, and leave only the question of the fetus itself. The thing is some women would find it difficult to have someone else raise their baby, and would rather abort than have that happen. But your scenario does make abortion much harder to support as an ethical matter. And I say that as someone who is very pro-choice.

Since it's all hypothetical, I would posit that if technology were as advanced, cheap, and available as you envision, hopefully contraceptive science would have advanced also, and girls could be fitted with a completely safe and free contraceptive device at puberty that would be removed only when they intentionally decided to become pregnant. That would at least weed out unwanted pregnancies. Of course it would not change the problem of wanted pregnancies with genetic issues which the parents might reasonably wish to abort. [/quote]

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