[cacophony]

Originally Posted by myrrh

Now, I am also against abortion, unless the mother looks like she is going to die from the pregnancy (and with modern medicine the actual event of a mother dieing while giving birth etc, is becoming rare), so how can these cells be collected?

Since 1970, the frequency of ectopic pregnancy has increased 6-fold, and it now occurs in 2% of all pregnancies. An estimated 108,800 ectopic pregnancies in 1992 resulted in 58,200 hospitalizations with an estimated cost of $1.1 billion.

let's outlaw abortion and let 2% of all pregnancies result in death.

there is no way to anticipate whether an ectopic pregnancy will kill the mother at the point that the pregnancy is discovered. there is a high likelihood but no way to definitively identify one as life threatening moreso than another. abortion is necessarily the treatment for such abnormal pregnancies, even though death is not guaranteed.