Would people against abortion also rid of aborting ectopic pregnancies? Just curious.
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Mini_kilt
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Aborting a healthy fetus, which would grow into a baby, and aborting an ectopic pregnancy, which will never live and could well kill the mother aswell are two totally different things
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Of course not. The ectopic fetus is going to die in any event, and aborting it keeps it from killing the mother. Killing someone who has to die anyway to save an innocent life isn't even an issue.
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Playing the devil's advocate here, there have been some (admittedly EXTREMELY rare) cases of non-tubal ectopic pregnancies resulting in the caesarian birth of a living infant. One such case was in 2003 in Canada: http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2003/08/11/c_section030811.html But there have been a number of others, including the survival of triplets, one of which was extrauterine, in the UK in 1999. Given that some anti-abortion campaigners state that if there's ANY chance that the foetus will survive then termination is immoral - even where the mother is in danger - would these rare cases make them change their mind and declare ectopic surgery to be unacceptable? I'd be very interested to hear opinions on this from those who feel abortion is never acceptable, except in the case of ectopic or other extreme situations.
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In an ectopic pregnancy, the child is almost certainly doomed anyway, and the risks to the mother are extreme as well. I am intensely pro life, but only when ther fetus has a reasonable chance. At this point, medical science has not advanced to the point where this type of pregnancy is even close to safe enough yet. Until that changes, the risk outweighs the chance of a healthy baby.
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