An academic question that’s always bothered me. If personhood starts at conception, but 30-50% of fertilized eggs fail to implant, why is there precisely zero interest in pursuing ways to prevent those failures, i.e. babies dying?https://twitter.com/FrMatthewLC/status/1408764752491335683 …
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Replying to @AlanLevinovitz
There is a clear moral distinction between direct & indirect killing. I can never directly kill someone, but I'm only obliged to do what's reasonable to prevent them from dying some other way (not everything that is theoretically possible).
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Replying to @FrMatthewLC
You should still worry about it! I’m not saying they’re the same. I’m saying that I am still heartbroken when I hear about other people dying unjustly. I support movements to help prevent unjust deaths. Medical research into preventing childhood cancer. Etc
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Replying to @AlanLevinovitz
Oh definitely. The Church has ministries to help women who've lost babies like that. & there can be moral issues around differences in healthcare access. But there's nothing reasonable I can do to force an embryo to implant properly once conceived in the example you cited.
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Replying to @FrMatthewLC
Sure there is! There could be calls for research into devices that ensure all viable eggs get implanted. For tracking the rate at which these millions of innocent human souls are going to their deaths. For thinking about them and mourning them. For knowing when it happens.
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Replying to @AlanLevinovitz @FrMatthewLC
Imagine not caring to know about that half of your babies that died without ever implanting. Surely it’s worth creating medical devices that would alert us to those deaths so those babies can be mourned properly by their parents?
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Replying to @AlanLevinovitz
I would support research on this. Currently, other than general things like not getting high or drunk & not beating your GF/wife that I'd recommend to everyone, I know of no way to prevent non-implantation. (I'm reasonably well-informed on the research but don't know everything.)
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That's actually not correct - quite a bit of evidence that large-scale public health programs reduce this sort of miscarriage. A simple example would be smoking cessation efforts
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To be honest, that's why I always have an issue with the whole idea of a "pro-life" stance. How can it be "pro-life" without advocacy for public health measures that objectively save lives?
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