Uteral Utterances.

As a believer in the pro-life position that a human life begins at conception I have been trying to figure out how that belief somehow trumps a woman's right to decide whether to let her body be a baby factory. Even a woman who takes reasonable precautions can find herself in that unplanned condition. It seems unfair both to the woman and to the fetus.

Life can certainly be unfair, but it is a human trait to try to overcome an ill fate if possible. So when is it possible to move a developing fetus in such a way that it can continue its development without benefit of an unwilling uterus? We know that surgically removing the fetus intact is possible at almost any stage of development. Once the little heart starts beating and circulation is established the fetus can be transferred to an incubator. Is it possible that we could develop machinery that would do the job of incubation at an earlier stage? Given the already-developed mechanical wonders of modern medicine I think it is a certainty that we could. So why haven't we done it?

Why have we wasted time speculating about what God intends? Did God not intend that humans develop the ability to build complex machinery? If so we should ban guns. We can now remove and freeze human ova and spermatozoa that can later be unfrozen and combined to generate a fetus that can then be implanted in a uterus. All we need is an artificial uterus to complete the job. Then women can finally cry "Free at last, free at last, thank God we are free at last!"

Oh, I forgot. Someone has to raise the poor little devils.