Cryopreserving the unborn

From: Eugene Leitl (eugene.leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de)
Date: Sun Jan 16 2000 - 18:21:35 MST


Technotranscendence writes:
> I don't know if anyone has thought of this before, but how about getting
> Right to Life individuals to support abortion by cryopreserving aborted
> fetuses? Surely, cryopreserving them would be cheaper. If we can get them

Current state of the art works only of few cell stage, and even then
the preservation rate is abysmal.

Any RightProLifer is probably a religious person, and these must be
going absolutely bananas about what happens to soul in this case.

SOP when dealing which such conundrums is just declaring them anathema.

> to fund this sort of thing, it would be a way to both spread cryonics and
> defuse a very deep conflict in Western societies.



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