Today on my way to watch 'Juno' [ a film about teenage pregnancy and adoption], I picked up the Reader's Digest which had an article about a woman who had undergone invitro fertilisation and had 11 embryos frozen. She produced 31 eggs with the medication instead of the usual 15-20 that other people in the program do which is significantly higher than the one a month u are supposed to create. The thing is she had 2 children using the embryos - 4 each time before one took but she still has 11 frozen - now her dilemma is....what does she do with these embryos?? The options being donate them to research - donate them to other people in the same predicament as she was - or have them destroyed? I find this decision heart breaking.....and so morally gray, I would crumble with the burden of choiceI am anti abortion..on the grounds that you are killing a life - and have been since I was subjected to the video of a gruesome video of one in school. I agree that maybe it may not be be life as soon as you create it but by the time most people discover, a heart beat has started and that to me is life! and in the case of a teenager like Juno - if you were responsible enough to be 'Sexually active' - you have to live with the repurcussions - this is a very easy argument, I know but the alternative is very devastating - an abortion is mind numbing for most people - because at the end of the day you are destroying something that is growing within you! but in a case like this, what do you do?
This is why in some cases, science has progressed too fast for mankind - maybe the difficulty many people are having conceiving is a natural progression of nature to control the population etc etc. and there is always adoption - there have always been millions of children that are born to wrong parents and are just waiting for a chance at a half decent life. I know the question of is it mine? etc will always haunt some people but...the option of wasting 11 embryos is traumatising me. I feel for that woman - how do you make a decision like that? Destroy, research or have your offspring traipsing half way around the globe with no idea that you exist?
6 comments:
GAAAAHHHH don't you know you're supposed to mention "SPOILER AHEAD"????????????
I wanted to watch that movie!!!
Bad, BAD girl!
Um, in CG's defense she revealed nothing about the film that wasn't in every major (and minor) review.
Isis, rest assured that you can comfortable go watch the movie and still be surprised, amazed, excited and hopefully - touched.
Listen I/P, the poster of the movie [now seen in the post] has a heavily pregnant teenager - not that hard to imagine the story!! Stop shouting at me and mail instead!!
I don't think the 'message' was anti-abortion or anything like that.
But anyway, the embryo question is a more interesting one. My take would be destroy them. If you can be comfortable with freezing them, then you clearly don't think they're alive or have feelings. And as you pointed out, there are enough children in the world waiting to be adopted - and a person who takes on an embryo wouldn't be getting their own genes or dna anyway so why not just adopt? I guess they would be useful for women who want to 'experience' pregnancy I guess.
I never thought the film was anti abortion - I just liked that message better.
Destroying embryos....its not like an egg that you eject every month! I find the whole thing too disturbing! not going to do IVF I think...will remain childless and lonely all my life!
Pixy Princess - I don't read reviews. And thanks for the reco, I will go watch it soon.
CG - unfair to ask me to stop shouting at you, that implies I have to be nice.
Will call on the weekend as I don't have the time to mail, but I've been sending pics no?
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