Several significant things going on here & much misfocused attention. Whether or not it is 'macabre' to use a dead woman's body to incubate her foetus is possibly the least significant thing. Medical science is frequently macabre. Things being icky matter less than the ethics.https://twitter.com/Colmogorman/status/979629433798750208 …
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Obstetrician said this was an example of why the Eighth should be repealed? No, it isn't. The Eighth should definitely be repealed but the examples of why involve living women who have the right to choose whether to be pregnant, not women who are, to all extents & purposes, dead
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What is macabre about this piece is people on either side asserting their experiences of pregnancy as relevant when this woman can no longer experience anything and the pressing subject of whether the foetus will experience anything & what that is likely to be is not addressed.
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'As a mother of four children I have more experience with pregnancy...' So what? As the mother of dozens of children, the average female mouse has more experience than you. We don't care about her opinion because she doesn't have knowledge & an ethical argument. Do you? Show it.
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Ten young women spoke of their personal experiences with pregnancy. Again, so what? THIS WOMAN CAN'T EXPERIENCE ANYTHING. This is, yet again, the belief knowledge is situated within experience & emotion of a particular group, at the expense of information & ethical argument.
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The wellbeing of this foetus & of the woman's surviving family matter here. Repealing the Eighth also matters hugely for the rights and freedom of Irish women. They both need addressing better than to mash them together & spew contradictory lived experiences & feelings over them.
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