Once we start farming fetus in glass jars then we can privilege them as complete entities unto themselves.
In a way that is tricky to explain, this statement surprises me. As a person who highly values motherhood and the "transformational" experience of pregnancy, as I believe you do as well, doesn't this remove pregnancy and motherhood from the equation, albeit hypothetically? When we "farm" them, we don't have the experience of quickening, of an ultrasound, of birth. We may or may not have the biological/chemical/hormonal responses to pregnancy and birth. To me, "farming" them is akin to a woman getting general anesthesia and having a C-section (the procedure alone - I know that it is necessary, but I'm referring to the procedure alone and not the reasonings behind it). What birth experience do you have? How do you compare the videos/experience of a natural homebirth or even an epidural-assisted vaginal birth with the experience of getting an IV/injection and waking up later with a pained body and a baby?
NO FLAMES PLEASE regarding the C-section thing. I wanted to address the difference as I see it and meant no insult or injury to someone who has undergone that procedure, with or without general.
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In a way that is tricky to explain, this statement surprises me. As a person who highly values motherhood and the "transformational" experience of pregnancy, as I believe you do as well, doesn't this remove pregnancy and motherhood from the equation, albeit hypothetically? When we "farm" them, we don't have the experience of quickening, of an ultrasound, of birth. We may or may not have the biological/chemical/hormonal responses to pregnancy and birth. To me, "farming" them is akin to a woman getting general anesthesia and having a C-section (the procedure alone - I know that it is necessary, but I'm referring to the procedure alone and not the reasonings behind it). What birth experience do you have? How do you compare the videos/experience of a natural homebirth or even an epidural-assisted vaginal birth with the experience of getting an IV/injection and waking up later with a pained body and a baby?
NO FLAMES PLEASE regarding the C-section thing. I wanted to address the difference as I see it and meant no insult or injury to someone who has undergone that procedure, with or without general.