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From: welsch@houxu.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Fetus Transplants
Message-ID: <178@houxu.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 23-Jul-83 08:54:09 EDT
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Posted: Sat Jul 23 08:54:09 1983
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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
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