In recent memory for most of us getting pregnant and then giving birth to a healthy baby was seen as a miracle. Not long ago people had large families and expected that many of their children would not survive their first years. These stories show how far we have fallen. One woman sues because she was accidentally given the wrong baby. Another woman killed the child in her womb because it wasn't what she ordered. If you replace 'baby' with 'car' or 'what I ordered for lunch' how different would the wording be? It doesn't seem like it would be very different at all.
Baby's mixed up after delivery at hospital:
Women given wrong egg during implantation:
(Telegraph) - The mistake happened when the woman, who is in her twenties, underwent IVF treatment at a government-run hospital in Kagawa Prefecture.
But medical tests during the early stages of pregnancy revealed the implanted egg was unlikely to have come from the mother.
Further investigations led to the discovery that the fertilised eggs of another patient had accidentally been implanted.
The woman decided to abort at nine weeks upon discovery of the blunder and are now seeking £149,000 (in compensation from the prefectural government.
Yuzo Matsumoto, director of Kagawa Prefectural Central, said: "She was very happy after undergoing such a difficult procedure and becoming pregnant, but unfortunately a mistake had been made."
"The in vitro procedures are carried out in sequence one after the other. In this case the eggs from one procedure may have accidentally been left over and used in the following procedure."
Fertility treatment is increasingly common in Japan with thousands of women undergoing IVF treatment every year, during which a women's eggs are removed, fertilised outside the womb and then implanted in the uterus to lead to pregnancy.
However, medical groups traditionally do not encourage raising and bearing children who are not related to the mother. As a result, surrogate births and adoptions are comparatively rare in relation to other industrialised nations.
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Yeah, I have a lot of thoughts about this:
ReplyDeletehttp://thoughtsfromtheothersideofthemountain.blogspot.com/2008/12/artificial-sex-whole-story.html
Not many people are willing to discuss it. Kudos for opening the window here!
That first video was ridiculous the way they talked about pumping the baby's stomach over something as natural as breast milk....er...*bodily fluids* ewwww...now there's people wholly out of touch with the way God worked things out for babies to be created, born and nurtured.
I enjoyed your post. For those that read comments I very much encourage you to read it. The issues you bring up are close to home as I have family who have struggled through the adoption/in vitro dilemma with rather tragic results.
ReplyDeleteIt is quite painful and difficult to be empathetic while at the same time being unwilling to sacrifice your principles by agreeing with their choices in a permissive way or through equivocation. It was doubly difficult for me as the Lord has blessed us with so many children to not feel like my stated beliefs were ever so convenient as I won't ever be facing the problems they have.
Science has bridged the gap between what we "want," what we can have. and the methods we can use to get it. It has not, however, bridged the gap between doing something and understanding what it means to have done it.