# Rape Babies deserve to die?

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [August 27, 2007, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rape-babies-deserve-to-die/417056 "2007-08-27T05:13:22Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 3, 2007, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rape-babies-deserve-to-die/417056/361 "2007-09-03T16:55:40Z")

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[QUOTE=Bryan Ekers]  
As a minor note, the mucking around isn’t done just for the heck of it. These procedures are typically specifically sought by women who want very much to become pregnant, but can’t for some medical reason, and to maximize the chance of a successful pregnancy, multiple fertilized embryos are created.  
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Of course. I know people who have done so (well, not exactly the scenarios in John’s hypotheticals), and they were good people, desperate for a child to call their own.

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> So, is it worth destroying a few dozens microscopic embryos as by-products of one successful pregnancy? Block the use of petri dishes and you deny a child to someone who genuinely wants one.

IMO, it is not ethical to do this, so at the risk of sounding hard-hearted (and I’m not), no, I don’t think it is warranted.

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