“This is a very, very, very weird concept to think about and approach.'
Throughout history, women have been seen as vessels for which to bring new life into the world and have suffered immensely because of it. In the past, religious tradition and pre-modern European medicine have often referred to women as a ‘vessel’, and even in the present, the recent anti-abortion legislation passed in the USA further reinstalls the idea that women do not have complete autonomy over their bodies.
To suggest that a brain-dead woman be used as a surrogate is to undermine the fact that a large amount of pregnancy relies on a woman knowing her own body. She must understand what is ‘normal’ for her and when something feels ‘wrong’, she needs to use her gut instinct to make decisions on what is best and, should a medical complication arise, she needs to be present enough to advocate for herself. A brain-dead woman can do none of these things.
When we start to discuss using women in this way we begin to confuse the word ‘brain-dead’ with ‘zombie’ - the mind conjures up dystopian images of women, hooked up to machines, unable to speak or interact, waiting out the nine months of pregnancy in isolation and silence. We can only wonder how her family might feel to see her like this.
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