Stem cells are gathered from the placenta after the birth nowadays, so no need to gather them from aborted children.
You're absolutely right... they
can also be had from post-birth mothers. Aborted fetuses aren't the only method of obtaining them.
Welcome to the USA where people DONT mind their own business. Free speech, voting rights, the justice system, etc. As a person living in this country (assumption) you must be held accountable for your actions. You can drink and drive if you want to, but you are running the risk of getting arrested or getting someone killed. You can sleep with that girl at the bar if you want to, but you cant choose the consequences that come with it - sexually transmitted disease, pregnancy.
Welcome to the USA, where it's none of your business what the chick that gave gonorrhea to the drunk one-night-stand guy does with her newly fertilized egg. You are welcome to have any opinion you want on their hypothetical one night stand and judge them to your heart's content... but it's not your decision to make on the hypothetical pregnancy... nor should it be.
I fail to see the parallel between drunk driving and a one night stand. You're not endangering anybody but yourself with a one night stand.
Edit: Whos fault is it that the 16 year old girl got pregnant? Its the girl and her boo. Why are you assuming that her life is ruined? I have a 4 month old and up to this point he has cost us less than $1,000. Yes this is on the low side because we have good health insurance, but still, not near as expensive as what some people want to make it seem.
Why are you sex-shaming a hypothetical 16-year-old that banged her boyfriend on prom night and had an accident? When I was in high school I could count on two hands the chicks in my class that were virgins... and that was 20-some-odd years ago. Who's "fault" was it? Really?
This isn't the 1940's where people saved themselves for marriage and immediately married the girl they got pregnant... back when a high school education was all you needed to succeed in life...
I'm not going to bother to look up statistics here, but I'd say it's safe to assume said hypothetical 16-year-old has an extremely low chance of staying with said biological donor with or without marriage.
I don't feel like it's necessary to look up statistics to say it's a safe bet the vast majority of teenage pregnancies result in the mother not attending an amount of college that results in a meaningful degree... a vocational trade class is likely the best option unless she just so happens to have well-off parents that can afford to have a nanny take care of the baby while she gets her life together.
It's highly unlikely the child on a family plan is going to be covered for pregnancy expenses on her parents' insurance plans... now she can claim indigent and apply for welfare to cover it, but that bleeds into the welfare issue people around here will undoubtedly be complaining about... so let's assume she does claim indigent and gets on BlueCare which will 100% cover her pregnancy expenses... it's now free to see a doctor and
have the baby.
Then all you have to buy is (at a bare minimum):
Crib ($300)
Bassinet ($80)
Walker ($150)
Infant Car Seat ($100)
Breastmilk pump ($50)
Baby Monitor ($100)
Swaddle blankets ($20)
Sheets ($40)
Clothes ($100)
Bottles ($50)
Pacifiers ($30)
That puts you at $1,020 with the absolute cheapest Chinese-made prolly gonna give your kid cancer stuff on the market...
just the absolute essentials... and that's before the $25/week for diapers, baby wipes, sanitizers, toys, books, obviously no nursery furniture, paint, curtains, etc... there's no way...
A child is a $100,000 investment for an impoverished family... a middle-class one is more of a $500,000-1,000,000 investment... that hypothetical 16-year-old is close to fulfilling that investment and becoming a productive member of society.
There are certainly exceptions to the assumption... MTV's Teen Mom, some rare entrepreneurial spirits, and some hardAF working single mom's that put themselves through college and better themselves... but that hypothetical 16-year-old child is WAY behind the 8-ball as soon as the pregnancy ball drops... and all you have to say is...
"Well, who's fault was it?"
I've seen how the girls that got pregnant in high school and had the baby turned out in my high school class... how did your's do? All doctors and lawyers I'm sure...
So what is logically worth more? Your daughter's aspirations in life or the 8-celled fertilized egg in her uterus after a youthful night of bad decisions?
Like I said... people here probably won't like my opinion on this particular subject, and I understand their reasoning... it's really hard to argue against the "right" thing to do vs the "logical" thing to do...
I'm really not trying to be argumentative, just giving you a realistic alternative point of view against the stereotypical high road "Well, somebody ask the 8-celled fertilized egg if
it wants to live" mantra...
Nobody should ever shame a woman that made an understandably-awful-to-make decision like that... You have no idea what the circumstances were and you have no idea what's going on in her life... if there's one decision you should refrain from judging somebody from... it's that one
All that being said... they SHOULD make one law...
If you ever see a woman come out of the abortion clinic with a smile on her face, then you have every right to punch her in it :hi: