Eggs from aborted foetuses

[musica]

Anyone else seen this ?

[WideWebWitch]

Awful, unethical, wrong. IMO of course.

[Boe]

Absolutley shocking.

Not sure how I would feel if I was unable to have children though??

I keep looking at things like this and wondering what the health implications will be in the future to the children that are created.

[Boe]

Absolutley shocking.

Not sure how I would feel if I was unable to have children though??

I keep looking at things like this and wondering what the health implications will be in the future to the children that are created.

[Britabroad]

YUK!!
Playing too much with mother nature.
Agree with Boe about future health problems.

What's wrong with adoption?

[wobblymum]

Even if you forget the ethics, this idea is just too weird.

How would you feel to grow up and find out that your genetic mother was never even born!!!Wouldn't that just screw you up?

[EmmaTMG]

This sort of stuff should be kept in 'Movieland' for all those actors who want to play mad scientists.

I am very fortunate to have been able to concieve naturally but I simply can't imagine anyone actually agreeing to give birth to one of the aborted babies 're-born' eggs......it's just tooooooo wierd.

[doormat]

Agree with everything said here.

IMO it is just another "sinister, interfering with mother nature" experiment out of scientists who need to know it all.Yes scientists do some good, but this is going too far IMO.

Is there really such a shortage of donor eggs to stoop to this level, as Boe says what are the future implications of the child. Will there be deformities and mental health problems in the child?

Also I dont know the facts and figures about abortion but wont it put women "off" having abortions, knowing their aborted feotuses are "experimental guinea pigs" and being used in this way.

Just thoughts.

[wobblymum]

If the shortage of eggs is so bad that they're willing to consider this, why not first try relaxing the laws on whether payments can be made to egg donors. I don't mean let it get into a mass market with people charging whatever they want. The government could make a set price that egg donors get paid and this would have to be added on to the cost of having the treatment. Ok, people needing the treatment would have to fork out more, but it's only to ensure they can still get their treatment.

The government could start it off using the money they would spend on researching this barmy idea. AND it could be put into place asap whereas I assume this idea would take years of research and experimentation before it could be widely used.

[Paula71]

So basically children will be born from mothers who were never born.

Do they realise how f*ed up this is?

Truly they are so busy seeing if they could they didn't bother seeing if they should. It is utterly sick and beyond comprehension.

Although I am blessed (haha) with twin ds's now after a horrific ectopic I thought I would never be able to have a baby. Rather than go through the pain and mental torture of IVF dh and I decided to leave it. If it happened it happened, if not then it was never meant to be.

Three years later, with no medical help, I got doubly pregnant!

So, in those three years I know what it is like to feel it will never happen. Not once would I have even considered using another persons eggs let alone someone who hadn't existed.

What do you say to the child when they are older? Or do they not care or consider the child other beyond the obsession of having one?

Sure, I can say this now with my twin ds' sleeping upstairs. I know how lucky I am. But the child has always to come first.

Would they think themselves Frankenstein babies?