Fri Feb 3, 2023 – 2:15 pm EST
(LifeSiteNews) — A Norwegian academic has suggested using the bodies of women declared ‘brain-dead’ to grow unborn babies.
“Whole body gestational donation offers an alternative means of gestation for prospective parents who wish to have children but cannot, or prefer not to, gestate,” wrote Anna Smajdor, a professor of Philosophy and Ethics at the University of Oslo.
Her article, titled “Whole body gestational donation,”was published in the Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics journal late last year.
Smajdor argues that using women who have been declared “brainstem dead” as hosts to carry a child to term could be a viable and ethical option in the future.
“We already know that pregnancies can be successfully carried to term in brain-dead women,” the Norwegian professor stated. “There is no obvious medical reason why initiating such pregnancies would not be possible.”
WBGD is the logical consequence of today’s organ harvesting practice
In her article, Smajdor discussed ethical concerns that may arise regarding what she calls “Whole Body Gestational Donation” (WBGD). She argues that if one accepts the modern practice of organ donation from brain-dead humans, then WBGD represents only a “difference in degree”
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