Organ waiting lists require the informed consent of the recipient. As in, the people on the list have expressed a preference towards not dying. A premature child cannot express such a preference.
So you say. But no one has proven to me that they want to live. Government databases notoriously have errors. Besides I can match my knowledge of the child’s preference with the adult’s preference by just not paying attention.
> But no one has proven to me that they want to live.
I think I see where you're coming from, but this is a mighty perverse thing to say about people currently dying of organ failure who have expressed a desire to not die of organ failure. This isn't hypothetical, you can reach out to them and ask them how they feel directly. Not paying attention to that is a lack of diligence on your part, not a lack of expression on theirs.
Contrast that with an unborn child who literally cannot express a preference. Proving a desire to be born is a very different problem.
Sure, but the guy who would conceive and execute on this idea was never going to be a guy who would stop there.
Folks like this don’t aim at some point and then achieve it and stay there. They aim higher, land where they do, and continue to target the higher point. It’s how it is.
You can tell because how many of the rest of the people who would have stopped and not have lab-grown the child? Precisely zero.
