If we take this ethos to it's logical conclusion, then we would have to mandate IVF for all fertile females having sex or ban them from sex.
Because fertilized embryos don't implant or implant and are rejected (for a myriad of reasons) regularly inside a woman's body. The end result is the same as IVF (worse, numbers-wise, over her fertile and sexually active lifetime) but at least with IVF the implanted embryos selected have a better shot at success than with nature's odds.
If we're going to elevate these very young embryos to personhood, then we'd better have a plan to save 'em all and not just the easy ones made under lab conditions.
What happens in nature is directed by God and God is the Lord of human life. He grants and takes it according to His infinite wisdom. When doctors and scientists try to play God, it never goes well.
The implications are that children are a blessing, not a right, and none of us has the right to create children in a petri dish and then discard them if they are too many or defective. Yes I have most definitely thought throught the implications. But our society has a me first problem that even extends to the noble wish to be a parent.
If we take this ethos to it's logical conclusion, then we would have to mandate IVF for all fertile females having sex or ban them from sex.
Because fertilized embryos don't implant or implant and are rejected (for a myriad of reasons) regularly inside a woman's body. The end result is the same as IVF (worse, numbers-wise, over her fertile and sexually active lifetime) but at least with IVF the implanted embryos selected have a better shot at success than with nature's odds.
If we're going to elevate these very young embryos to personhood, then we'd better have a plan to save 'em all and not just the easy ones made under lab conditions.
What happens in nature is directed by God and God is the Lord of human life. He grants and takes it according to His infinite wisdom. When doctors and scientists try to play God, it never goes well.
I appreciate your philosophy but I don't think you've thought through the implications of really acting on it outside of this convenient narrow case.
The implications are that children are a blessing, not a right, and none of us has the right to create children in a petri dish and then discard them if they are too many or defective. Yes I have most definitely thought throught the implications. But our society has a me first problem that even extends to the noble wish to be a parent.