From: Walter Watts (wlwatts@cox.net)
Date: Mon Aug 05 2002 - 12:29:47 MDT
Hermit wrote:
> Jeez guys. This is nuts.
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> Baby making is (unfortunately) not a licenced activity. We allow mental defectives and genetiic disasters to breed without compunction or control (and they do) frequently at state expense. THen when somebody wants to plan a zygote, which would naturally be very carefully checked out before implantation, so the chances of any woopsie would be slight, we get all freaked out. What is wrong with this picture?
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> A while ago I was discussing (hypothetically) the possibility of creating a type selected child for a family member (husband/father/mother/sybling/child) with leukemia. The women had no problem with the idea. Including implantation of cross-generational babies (i.e. son-mother crosses), into the wife. Only one person at the gathering (16 people) reacted in a kind of "eeew" fashon. Going further, about half of them said that if they had enough kids/didn't want the baby except as a life-saver, that putting it up for adoption would also be acceptable - there is always a market for babies. Again all but the "eeew" lady had no problem with the idea of creating a zygote for termination and harvesting at the end of the first trimester - including doing so for a friend, never mind a family member.
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> So do I have weird friends or is this just a non issue being blown up out of proportion?
Sounds like at least 15 of 16 are NOT weird to me!!
Walter
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> Hermit
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-- Walter Watts Tulsa Network Solutions, Inc. "No one gets to see the Wizard! Not nobody! Not no how!"
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