From: Mark Collins (me@thisisnurgle.org.uk)
Date: Sat Aug 03 2002 - 07:22:01 MDT
On Saturday 03 August 2002 11:08 am, you wrote:
> [Mark Collins]
>
> > Check out:
> > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/2165710.stm
> >
> > The couple involved are now planning to go to the US to have the
> > treatment performed. Is this really ethical?
>
> No. They should never have been put in a position where they had to leave
> this country to go to the US. The decision against them is unethical. Their
> choice to go to the US is a feasible remaining option.
>
> [Mark Collins]
>
> > They are going to be bringing a new life in the world. not becuase
> > they will love and cherish this new life, but so they can use it to
> > save the life of another.
>
> I find this assumption very irritating. No-where in the news report, or
> reports at http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=320657
> and
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4474283,00.html
> and
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4474883,00.html
>
> do the parents say that the sole purpose of the proposed "designer baby" is
> just to ease the pain of their son Charlie Whitaker. Perhaps the parents
> want another child? The "tissue-typing" IVF technique would have been a
Absense of fact is not the same as fact.
No where in the report did it say that they wanted another chlid, either. The
impression I got (this may just be my interpretation, and this is from the
BBC News 24 reports on the matter, not the website) is that their motivations
for wanting a second child it to cure the first.
If I'm right, what kind of life is the new child going to have? [S]he's going
to be moderatly famous, considering all the news coverage, and will one day
probably find out about his/her entry into the world. What efect would this
have on him/her?
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-- === Mark 'Nurgle' Collins http://www.thisisnurgle.org.uk Stupid IRC quote of the <variable time period>: <phoenix> insider, you'll have to excuse nurgle, he's the epitamy of evil
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