Thursday, October 4, 2012

Is it okay for HIV/AIDS women to bring children into the world

Is it okay for HIV/AIDS women to bring children into the world?
Do you know someone who's done this? Should there be a law passed to prevent the purposeful spread of this disease? Why would this be okay? Why would this NOT be okay? Even if there was a tiny chance that baby could be infected would you actually do it???
Other - Diseases - 5 Answers
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1 :
who are we to tell people they cannot have kids? it's a free world last i heard. of course, if i had HIV or AIDS, i wouldn't bring a child into this world for fear of infection. are you writing a paper on this?
2 :
Ethically would you put any child in a situation where they had a 1 in 400 chance of death? HIV/AIDS infected children have very little chance of living past the age of sexual maturity. I personally would not make it illegal, but Why put someone through that for your personal needs.
3 :
Morally, it's not a good idea, of course. Although there may be exceptions there because some of these women may have been raped. But if a person knows that the other person has HIV/AIDS and does it willingly anyway, that's wrong. But it's still not against the law at this point. Maybe that'll change.
4 :
if they are already pregnant i'd say there isn't much you can do about it. but to intentionally get pregnant is selfish on their part. you are bringing a child into the world with a terminal disease which i think is most unfair. plus the odds of passing the disease to the child too great. no i think it should be discouraged.
5 :
One reason it's okay is because children born to HIV infected mothers have a pretty low chance of being born with HIV. It's usually less than 1 in 20 when the woman takes proper HIV medications, delivers the baby via c-section, and doesn't breastfeed. On top of that, HIV simply isn't a death sentence anymore. I have a friend who is 23 years old and was born with HIV. She's healthy and active and living a perfectly normal life. If you want to argue that we shouldn't let people have children who have "even a tiny chance" of being born with a chronic disease, most people wouldn't be allowed to have children, because most of us have at least one gene that could result in disease, disability, or other conditions.

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