- Pronoun
- she/her
The infant mortality rate has nothing to do with the likelihood of a zygote once conceived being successfully born. Infant mortality is when babies die under one year of age, after being born alive (that's what the "/1000 live births" means; it specifically excludes stillbirths and miscarriages before the figure is even calculated).
I still get your point about a zygote being more likely to turn into an actual baby than individual sperm and egg cells and all, but just I don't agree with how you find this relevant. Yeah, it's likely it would eventually become a baby if you did nothing more about it. Why, fundamentally, is the mere existence of this potential something sacred? The individual doesn't exist yet; there is no concrete somebody that you're erasing. It's unfair to the future potential individual (who is currently nonexistent) to not let them exist? Well, why is it not unfair to all the other potential future individuals that never became zygotes to not let them exist, just because one had previously become more likely to exist than the others? What the hell does it even mean to be unfair to somebody who doesn't exist?
I still get your point about a zygote being more likely to turn into an actual baby than individual sperm and egg cells and all, but just I don't agree with how you find this relevant. Yeah, it's likely it would eventually become a baby if you did nothing more about it. Why, fundamentally, is the mere existence of this potential something sacred? The individual doesn't exist yet; there is no concrete somebody that you're erasing. It's unfair to the future potential individual (who is currently nonexistent) to not let them exist? Well, why is it not unfair to all the other potential future individuals that never became zygotes to not let them exist, just because one had previously become more likely to exist than the others? What the hell does it even mean to be unfair to somebody who doesn't exist?