It's not disgusting, it's pro-mercy. It'd be a different thing entirely if our medical tech wasn't still barely above primitive efforts like leeches. E.G. Sta

It's not disgusting, it's pro-mercy. It'd be a different thing entirely if our medical tech wasn't still barely above primitive efforts like leeches. E.G. Star Trek level medical tech where there are gene therapies, cybernetic augments, and guided regeneration of body parts? In that world the baby might be viable and could have a life of reasonable quality.