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Originally Posted by CallMeTex
Thought experiment - an anti-abortionist (prolifer is a misnomer) happens upon a fertility clinic when a fire breaks out. In a lab to his left he can save 50 embryos waiting for artificial insemination. Or... he can save one unattended child, age 4. He can't save both. What does he do?
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In the heat of the moment I would obviously save the child, but that's just what I think my basic protection skills would suggest. The amount of those who die would be greater and in hindsight mine would have been a bad decision, but I would still act in my natural response to stress or be a selflish ******* and save no one.
If, in some odd scenario, I had quite a bit of time to think, I would choose the embryos, though. It leads to a death which many will surely point to me as the blame. However, if I had enough time to realistically (in this situation I believe that I would be under a lot of stress and my natural perspective of what is human would come into play) consider who my actions will affect, I would choose the embryos. That being said (and morally noted) I think I would save whomever lies within my instinct to save i.e. the already born child.
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