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Spiritually speaking, Why isn't embryo transfer offered as an option for mothers who are unable/unwilling to carry to term?

Embryo transfer happens all the time for cattle and horses, where there is money involved, but not even offered as an option for humans where LIFE is concerned? 1 Timothy 6:10 KJV For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

Update:

Currently, the other option in many cases is abortion, which definitely ends the life of the baby.

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  • 7 years ago

    Embryo transfer is done before the placenta attaches in cattle specifically fertilized in a controlled setting. Are you now planning on dragging women into fertility clinics, fertilizing them and flushing out the zygote while still in the first few cleavages to transfer to some other woman?

    http://www.humble.k12.tx.us/cms/lib2/TX01001414/Ce...

    It is not possible to surgically transfer an attached placenta to another uterus. Human blastocysts are developed enough for implantation by day 5 or 6 in the first week. After implantation the only current option is abortion, until a surgical transferal process is developed.

  • Too bad we can't insert the embryo into the bodies of the anti-choice males. But I'll settle for transfer into the bodies of anti-choice females.

    BTW, it's not a baby until it's born.

  • 7 years ago

    Humans are significantly more complex than cattle or horses. Beyond that, the human life is often too valuable to risk. A lost human life is much more meaningful than a lost cow or horse.

  • 7 years ago

    If Christian women were serious about saving the unborn they'd be offering up their wombs as surrogates.

  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    It's been done.

  • M S
    Lv 7
    5 years ago

    secular people needs embryos for stem cells trying to stay alive for ever.

    I selected your answer as the best, hope we can talk about the Bible.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    7 years ago

    exactly.

    Why aren't we working on artificial wombs too? Those would also help many premature infants as well.

    The answer is that the troglodytes don't really give a fig about the poor little fetuses, they just want to punish women. Just look at all the poor, neglected, abused, living children suffering in this world. They don't care at all about helping them, or helping single moms either. It's the same people who want to cut benefits to poor mothers and their children. Hypocrites.

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