I honestly don’t see a problem with that, as long as the woman gave her consent while she was of sound mind. Surrogate pregnancy is already a fairly common thing; this is just extending it to after one is brain-dead.
Obviously if it’s done nonconsensually that’s an entirely different matter, and is a horrifying idea (imagine miraculously waking up from an 8 month coma only to find you’re pregnant with someone else’s child).
It’s an okay, morally ambiguous policy if you reduce pregnancy to a completely autonomous process like pooping. Pregnancy involves medical visit, and a lot of “how do you feel?” moments that a braindead person is incapable of doing.
It’s the same dismissive thinking that suggests a robot can be a fry cook, what happens when an oddly shaped food item gets in a gear and it spills oil on the floor, who’s gonna clean it up?
It’s the same dismissive thinking that suggests a robot can be a fry cook, what happens when an oddly shaped food item gets in a gear and it spills oil on the floor, who’s gonna clean it up?
I honestly don’t see a problem with that, as long as the woman gave her consent while she was of sound mind. Surrogate pregnancy is already a fairly common thing; this is just extending it to after one is brain-dead.
Obviously if it’s done nonconsensually that’s an entirely different matter, and is a horrifying idea (imagine miraculously waking up from an 8 month coma only to find you’re pregnant with someone else’s child).
It’s an okay, morally ambiguous policy if you reduce pregnancy to a completely autonomous process like pooping. Pregnancy involves medical visit, and a lot of “how do you feel?” moments that a braindead person is incapable of doing.
It’s the same dismissive thinking that suggests a robot can be a fry cook, what happens when an oddly shaped food item gets in a gear and it spills oil on the floor, who’s gonna clean it up?
The cleansing power of fire, most likely.
Coma ≠ brain dead
True, but you can’t always be sure someone is truly brain-dead.
Surely you can. An EEG of a brain dead living corpse is going to be different to a comatose patient’s EEG
I’m not a medical expert, but there are plenty of news articles of people declared brain dead by doctors recovering and waking up.
Two responses, channeling the defenseless future conscripts forced into this world literally to fill a “recruitment” quota:
“Don’t build a person if you do not intend to be their ally.” — The Terraformers (2023)
and
“No! No! No! No! No!” — Team Four Star
Well, if surrogacy is a fairly common thing, surely it has to be ethical. What a logical conclusion.