Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site houxu.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!seismo!harpo!eagle!mhuxt!mhuxj!aluxz!mhuxi!cbosgd!ihnp4!houxm!houxu!welsch From: welsch@houxu.UUCP Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Fetus Transplants Message-ID: <178@houxu.UUCP> Date: Sat, 23-Jul-83 08:54:09 EDT Article-I.D.: houxu.178 Posted: Sat Jul 23 08:54:09 1983 Date-Received: Mon, 25-Jul-83 22:53:37 EDT Distribution: net.politics Organization: Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ Lines: 35 Yesterday's, (Friday March 21), New York Times had a front page article on fetus transplants. This new technology, I believe raises a number of interesting questions, many related to the abortion question. Given that we had a technology for transplanting fetuses then: 1. Does society have the right to find a woman to bear a fetus/child whose genetic father and mother do not want the fetus/child? 2. If the genetic mother of a fetus/child does not wish to have the child then does the genetic father of a fetus/child have the right to find a woman who will bear the child and insist on a fetus transplant? 3. In the case where a woman bears a child that is not genetically hers, what rights/responsibilities does she have for the child and what rights/responsibilities does the genetic mother have for the child? 4. If society cannot find a woman willing to bear a fetus/child and the genetic mother does not wish to have the fetus/child then should the fetus be aborted? 5. What rights/responsibilities does the genetic father have for a fetus/child that was transplanted? Are they the same as if the fetus/child was not transplanted? It appears to me that technology is providing us with moral questions that do not have simple answers. Larry Welsch ihnp4!houxj!houxu!welsch