Editor,
Pro-choice, pro-life.
Everyone seems to think the issue solely concerns a woman's right to control her own body and a fetus' - let's call it what it is people - right to life.
As a result, Craig Butler says the abortion debate will soon be nullified. Ectogenesis is the wave of the future. If we can remove pregnancy from the debate by shifting fetal development to an artificial womb, then what possible grounds would the pro-choice movement have anymore, other than the murderous liberal agenda?
It doesn't inconvenience or otherwise harm the mother, the child can be adopted by some nurturing conservatives who will show it the light to Jesus and everyone gets what they want.
My belief is broader than simple control of one's own body.
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I believe very strongly that people - men and women alike - have the right to control their own genetic reproduction. I have the right to decide if, when and with whom my genetic progeny is perpetuated into the next generation.
Throwing out adoption as a cure-all to women who don't want to be mothers and throwing out ectogenesis as a cure-all to women who don't want to be pregnant proves that most people completely miss this point. Jump the tracks for just a moment, if you are able, and try to see the larger issue here.
Let me state it flatly: no one has the right to tell me that my genome must become the property of the next generation without my explicit permission.
With the huge hullabaloo surrounding genetic rights and genetic privacy, I am surprised so many people on both sides of the abortion debate seem to have utterly evacuated their minds of this simple fact.
Keith Wiley
Computer science graduate student
