{"id":4689,"date":"2009-03-20T00:01:33","date_gmt":"2009-03-20T00:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/2009\/03\/what-would-you-do.html"},"modified":"2009-03-20T00:01:33","modified_gmt":"2009-03-20T00:01:33","slug":"what-would-you-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2009\/03\/what-would-you-do.html","title":{"rendered":"What would you do?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Would you abort a fetus just because it wasn’t yours?<\/p>\n

The question sounds crazy. How could it not be yours? If it’s in your body, you must be the mom, right?<\/p>\n

Wrong. Through in vitro fertilization, you can get pregnant with somebody else’s fetus. Thousands of surrogates already have<\/a>. You can also carry an unrelated child using donor eggs<\/a>
\nand sperm. But these are things you’d have to sign up for. The scary
\nscenario is the one you never expect: going through IVF and
\ndiscovering, weeks into your pregnancy, that your doctor put the wrong
\nembryo in your womb…. <\/p>\n

Read the rest of the article at Slate here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Would you abort a fetus just because it wasn’t yours? The question sounds crazy. How could it not be yours? If it’s in your body, you must be the mom, right? Wrong. Through in vitro fertilization, you can get pregnant with somebody else’s fetus. Thousands of surrogates already have. 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