However, very little effort has been expended on the uterus transplant possibility. It is so much easier and more convenient to kill the developing baby. You have bought into that expediency. Your accusing me of ignorance of "how the baby" grows is actually a passive acceptance of the medical industry's status quo on ectopic pregnancies, which is to get rid of the little irritant, just like any abortion.
We all know that considerable efforts have gone into "test tube" pregnancies, and although we as Catholics disagree with the motives there, it illustrates what can be accomplished when money finds its way into reproduction research. You can't tell me that any efforts here are futile, I don't buy it. Many would like to believe that.
Evidently, the political climate, even at Catholic hospitals, does not result in this research being funded. It is a shame as is the certain loss of the developing baby, when a fraction of the research money going to AIDS, for example, might result in a few saved babies and mothers.
That's because there is no such "possibility". Your statements about "test tube" pregnancies highlight the "ignorance of how a baby grows" that I was speaking of. "Test tube" pregnancies are implanted (usually) in the 3-5 day range. You wouldn't even know a pregnancy existed (let alone where implantation occured) at that point.
By the time you know you've got an ectopic pregnancy, there's no possible way to "move" the baby from where it is implanted.
It HAS happened that doctors have discovered a VERY early ectopic pregnancy while doing another proceedure... and in very rare cases, the baby had been successfully transfered (before the connection between baby and mom is too permanent to re-form in another location). A few lived for a few years after birth.
That's obviously laudable and should continue to be attempted/researched. But you normally discover an ectopic pregnancy LONG after it's too late for this.
"Operations, treatments and medications that have as their direct purpose the cure of a proportionately serious pathological condition of a pregnant woman are permitted when they cannot be safely postponed until the unborn child is viable, even if they will result in the death of the unborn child."