情感与理智的艰难抉择——67岁失独母亲坚决拒绝终止妊娠的伦理思考

Hard Choices of Emotion and Reason: Ethical Thinking of the 67-Year-Old Mother Who Lost Her Only Child Resolutely Refusing to Terminate Her Pregnancy

近日,北京67岁失独母亲坚决拒绝终止妊娠事件引发了社会各界广泛热议,也带来了很多值得我们思考的社会和伦理问题。公民生育权不是绝对的生育权而是相对生育权,自由选择生育的同时也应该对自己、对孩子和社会负责;高龄产妇的医疗费用需要得到保障,应建立高龄妇女人工受孕孕前评估机制,合理设置人工受孕年龄上限等事前评估机制能有效解决医疗资源合理分配中的一些问题;失独家庭需要得到安慰与孩子健康成长的矛盾可以通过关爱失独老人、健全失独家庭领养机制等其他方法解决。

In recent days, the resolute refusal of a 67-year-old mother who lost her only child to terminate the pregnancy in Beijing has triggered widespread public debates and brought us many social and ethical issues worth thinking. Citizens reproductive rights are not absolute reproductive rights but relative reproductive rights. While freely choosing to give birth, they should also be responsible to themselves, children and society. The medical cost of elderly pregnant women needs to be guaranteed, and the establishment of the pre-pregnancy assessment mechanism for elderly women and the reasonable setting of the age limit for artificial insemination can effectively solve the problems in the reasonable allocation of medical resources. The contradiction between the need of the family lost the only child for comfort and the healthy growth of children can be solved by taking care of the elderly who lost their only child and improving the adoption mechanism of the family.